Organically textured and ultra-refined, Ola Onabulé’s collaboration with guitarist Nicholas Meier, Proof of Life, is a COVID-19 pandemic product that benefited from the passage of time between the end of the pandemic and now.
The collaboration began with a spark of creative curiosity. British-Nigerian singer-songwriter Ola Onabulé was hosting livestreams from his Casa Del Funk Studios when he crossed paths with Swiss guitarist Nicolas Meier. What started as a virtual musical exchange quickly developed into a deeper creative consideration. Over many sessions, the two discovered an intuitive musical synergy, an unforced connection that laid the foundation for something musically progressive and new.
Within these ten tracks, Onabulé’s African polyrhythms and Meier's Eastern, world, and jazz interests meld into a seamless mosaic of sound. The sonic production of this recording is compellingly rich, accentuated by Onabulé’s exceptional three-octave voice, whose perfect control of which makes these recordings almost supernatural in their sound.