News

New Album

On December 23, 2024, the new single HOPE has been released on all relevant digital streaming and download platforms as the start of the campaign for the new album NEW SYSTEM. As with the previous album FUTURE BLUES, Oliver Hafke Ahmad composed and produced the music himself and, as a multi-instrumentalist, played the flugelhorn and saxophone. HOPE is about the vital basic feeling without which we humans cannot survive, especially in times of crisis or even war.

The song was created from a game and improvisation with drum machine, flugelhorn and piano and was further developed into an optimistic, grooving modal jazz mantra in which Oliver's two daughters complete the choir with their (at the time of recording) child voices. Because it is children in particular who need hope for a peaceful and livable future all over the world. The war against Ukraine began over two years ago on the originally planned release date. Last year, the massacre on October 7th and the subsequent war in Gaza shocked the German-Arab saxophonist and initially caused his hopes for a better world to sink. Hope has now returned and the many crises show even more how necessary hope is.

The album NEW SYSTEM with more electronic jazz music will follow on July 11 2025. All ten songs of the new album have been composed, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered by Oliver, as on the previous album FUTURE BLUES.

Electronic sounds, acoustic instruments, compositions and improvisations enter into a colourful synthesis. They form a contemporary sound ful of rhythms, harmonies, melodies of world pop, electronica, funk, house, trap. hiphop and orchestral music, rarely heard in jazz music.

More news in our news archive.

MUSIC, ART & Entertainment