After 'Ours - Dumplings For Dinner (ft. Omar)

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Track 2 off After 'Ours album 'Long Road' August 29th 2024
Dumplings For Dinner (ft. Omar)
(Martyniuk/Omar)
Credits:
Michal Martyniuk - Rhodes, synths, piano
Nick Williams - Guitar, drums, percussion
Dan Antunovich - Bass guitar
Omar Lyefook - Vocals
Produced by Michal Martyniuk & Nick Williams
Mixed by Nick Williams at Sherwood Studios, Auckland, New Zealand
Mastered by Chris Chetland at Kog Studios
After 'Ours is a New Zealand Soul/Jazz band, founded by core members Michal Martyniuk and Nick Williams.
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Over the last three decades, Auckland, New Zealand, has given birth to several generations of musicians, DJs, and producers who operated within the interzone between jazz, blues, soul, funk, Latin music, hip-hop, house, boogie, and broken beat. Across two slow-cooked albums that sit at the intersection of machine funk and vivid live instrumentation, Odyssey (2016) and their forthcoming sophomore release Long Road (2023), After ‘Ours - the group project of pianist and composer Michal Martyniuk and drummer, guitarist and producer Nick Williams - have comfortably located themselves within this antipodean tradition.
Born and raised in Auckland, Nick Williams grew up surrounded by music from a young age. At home, his mother, Mary Anne, a record collector and DJ with deep, diverse vinyl crates, kept his ear sharp. By the time he was eight years old, he was regularly joining his musician father on stages across Australia in his blues rock band Slippery Sam. In his early twenties, Nick began leading the eleven-piece Auckland Latin-dub-funk fusion big band Tangent, who performed regularly until the late 2000s.
Michal Martyniuk, on the other hand, grew up on the opposite side of the world in Szczecin, Poland. After playing classical music for twelve years and attending jazz school, he relocated to New Zealand with his family in his teens. While studying at Auckland University Jazz school, Michal came into the orbit of the legendary New Zealand saxophonist, composer, producer, and band leader Nathan Haines, who brought him into the same world as future collaborators like Sola Rosa, Tama Waipara and Nick.
Inspired by the rich stories of jazz, neo-soul, electronica, and dance music from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and the open-eared Auckland scene they emerged from, After ‘Ours formed in 2011. Born out of a friendship cultivated through playing together at bars and nightclubs around town and home studio sessions. “Nick had family and work, so I had to wait all day,” Michal says. “We’d come to the studio at 10 PM and go till 3 AM. That’s how we came up with the name.
Session by session, After ‘Ours revealed itself to be a creatively fertile meeting of minds. “We both have our angles, but it works well in the end,” Nick reflects. “It takes the music to a place we can’t get to by ourselves.”
Between 2011 and 2016, they wrote and recorded Odyssey with a cast of musical collaborators that included KP, Sharlene Hector & Kevin Mark Trail (UK), Matt Nanai, Nathan Haines, Jakub Skowronski, Nick’s partner Ange Williams (nee Saunders) and British producer Mike Patto from the lauded UK future jazz group Reel People. Influenced by the smooth yacht rock of Steely Dan and Donald Fagan, the warm midtempo bounce of A Tribe Called Quest and J Dilla, and the complex jazz/RnB bop of Robert Glasper, Odyssey was a labour of love that emphasised community, warm-hearted hospitality, and care.
Seven years on, they’re finally ready to return with "Long Road", an album that contains some of their best work yet. As well as reconnecting with past collaborators Kevin Mark Trail and Ange Williams, Long Road sees After ‘Ours calling on assistance from Louis Baker, Jakarta-based saxophone player Kuba Skowronski, bassist Dan Antunivich, Los Angeles-based drummer Chris Bailey and the journeyman British soul artist Omar Lyefook.
Across ten songs that plot a stargazed course through their antipodean spin on UK broken beat, jazz, modern soul, and blues rock, Nick and Michal build on everything they learned while writing and recording Odyssey. In the process, they take their joyful musical visions to sublime new heights.
PL: Nowozelandzko-polski projekt After ‘Ours to efekt współpracy pianisty i kompozytora Michała Martyniuka oraz perkusisty, gitarzysty i producenta Nicka Williamsa. Obaj muzycy inspirują się bogatą historią jazzu, neo-soulu, elektroniki i muzyki tanecznej. Ich pierwszy album „Odyssey” miał swoją premierę w październiku 2016 r. Premiera kolejnego albumu „Long Road” zapowiadana jest na Sierpien 2024 r. W drugiej odsłonie After ‘Ours usłyszymy Louisa Bakera, saksofonistę Jakuba Skowrońskiego, basistę Dana Antunovica, perkusistę Chrisa Baileya oraz brytyjskiego weterana soulu - Omara Lyefooka.