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“wonderful new album... great tracks brimming with kora and fantastic vocals” (BBC)
The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nils Kercher starts learning the violin at an early age. As a teenager he has to make several attempts to convince his parents that he wants to play drums and soon after he discovers West African percussion.
He plays the drumkit in bands and can hardly wait until he finally has his high school diploma in his pocket to travel to West Africa to learn more.
He also begins to play Kora, an African harp, and develops his very own musical style from all these colours, which can be heard on three different albums: "Rhythms of Silence", "Ancient Intimations" and "SUKU-Your Life is Your Poem", which the British Songlines magazine aptly describes as "this is not a copy and paste exercise, but genuine fusion".
No matter what unusual combination of instruments he's on the road with, he expresses his own inner world with a very personal mixture of spices.
Most of the songs on his latest album "Can You smell The Rain“ (2020) were inspired by his rediscovery of the guitar, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities in his music. Vitalized by this new creativity, we hear Nils telling stories that link the personal with the global, as if on a leisurely dinner with good friends. Combined with his versatile musical background, this results in a unique combination of soothing sound, lyrics, great vocal arrangements and a captivating urban groove.
The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nils Kercher starts learning the violin at an early age. As a teenager he has to make several attempts to convince his parents that he wants to play drums and soon after he discovers West African percussion.
He plays the drumkit in bands and can hardly wait until he finally has his high school diploma in his pocket to travel to West Africa to learn more.
He also begins to play Kora, an African harp, and develops his very own musical style from all these colours, which can be heard on three different albums: "Rhythms of Silence", "Ancient Intimations" and "SUKU-Your Life is Your Poem", which the British Songlines magazine aptly describes as "this is not a copy and paste exercise, but genuine fusion".
No matter what unusual combination of instruments he's on the road with, he expresses his own inner world with a very personal mixture of spices.
Most of the songs on his latest album "Can You smell The Rain“ (2020) were inspired by his rediscovery of the guitar, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities in his music. Vitalized by this new creativity, we hear Nils telling stories that link the personal with the global, as if on a leisurely dinner with good friends. Combined with his versatile musical background, this results in a unique combination of soothing sound, lyrics, great vocal arrangements and a captivating urban groove.
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