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A stoic bassline rises from bubbling synth-sounds. The saxophone and Casio keyboard play themselves in ecstasy on top of a polyrhythmic clockwork groove. An energetic singer celebrates a hymnic ode to patience. Trance jazz maybe a fitting genre name for „Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers“, the berlin based quintet around the restless saxophone-player Johannes Schleiermacher. Inspired by Can, William Onyabor, Pharoah Sanders, North African trance cults, and early electronic music, they released 3 albums and singles since their founding in 2013, playing concerts in clubs and at festivals across the continent keep a lively intercultural exchange with non-European musicians going. They played with the Ismael Orchestra, an Issawa-Trance Ensemble from Meknes, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, a Tamaschek guitarist and singer from Northern Mali and Asmâa Hamzaoui, Khalid Sansi and Khalil Mounji, 3 Gnawas from Casablanca. The current album „Magic Polaroid“ presents the collaboration with the Danish-Mozambican singer Natalie Greffel. In her texts, she treats social issues such as the courage for authentic individuality in the conformist headwind of society and inserts the semantic level into the circulating grooves of the band in a mantrenike manner. Words become sound. The Disco Jumpers invite you to dive in sound but also have proved that it is perfectly possible to keep one’s feet firmly on the dancefloor while heading for the stars in a glittering spaceship.