AMI WARNING - Wellen Tour 2027
AMI WARNING - »WELLEN«
Fingers dance rhythmically on bass strings, a promising stamping, accompanied by Ami Warning's calm, sonorous, unmistakably warm voice: "We're coming spontaneously, haven't written to each other." The first line of the new album by the Munich artist vividly represents her weightlessly graceful, minimalist soul; her sensitivity, her mobilizing, sun-drenched flow; her fundamentally positive, brave DIY and creator attitude. "Wellen" - the title of Ami's new LP - breathes a sense of freedom, coziness, and contemplation. It describes, in thirteen acts, a palpable longing for the perfect moment. And it deals with the cycle of life, with being a child and growing old, with imprinting and continuities. Also, it talks about deep interpersonal connections and coming home; of doors opening and doors closing; of "waves" that come and go - which one must navigate and embrace, even when they threaten to overwhelm.
"Wellen" cannot be understood in its entirety without the extremely intense months in Ami Warning's life during which a large part of the album's songs were created. At the beginning of 2025, she became pregnant for the first time; still in the summer, she was on stage with her father - singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Wally Warning. Just a few days after their last joint show, and as Ami's belly grew thicker, a heavy cancer diagnosis shook her father's life. Wally Warning passed away on September 19, 2025, missing his granddaughter by just under two months - "in real life, there often seems to be no happy ending." It is hardly surprising that relaxed enthusiasm and contemplative melancholy, "storybook weather" and "hospital beds" lie close together on "Wellen." Between sensual guitar chords and gentle choirs, this album exudes a melancholy that always feels light as a feather and warm, though it does vary in its direction.
The thematic framework of the record also appears understandable - this intense engagement with flourishing and withering life, with soulful homes, with inner values; also with the moment when one's child - while one still has the taste of grandma's apple pie in their mouth - suddenly starts to walk. "Wellen" reflects - in its sound, in its lyrics, even in its creation story - the mentality shaped by joy of life, spontaneity, fearlessness, wanderlust, generosity, optimism, and improvisation that Ami's parents passed on to her. In fact, she experienced her father Wally's first concert - this full-blooded artist from Aruba, who early ignited her love for music and soon took her on tours in the family's tour bus - while still in her mother's womb. The attitude of her childhood home is now passed on by Ami to the next generation: When she recorded the song "Flugmodus" in a Munich studio, she had her daughter in tow, still in her postpartum period. If she one day takes an interest in making music, Ami will help her, just as her father once did for her.
Her heart-driven organic, thoroughly anti-mathematical way of making music and creating melodic arrangements with pop, reggae, indie, and Latin flavors has not changed for Ami over the years. As always, she composed almost all the songs on "Wellen" herself at home on the guitar. The album is released independently - yet it draws from Ami's creative network, which has noticeably expanded in recent years. She involved producers Bruckner, Novaa, Markus Sebastian Harbauer, Simon Frontzek, and Rudi Maier in the "Wellen" process; moreover, the record contains features with jolle and Carlo5 at two quite central points in the tracklist. However, Ami performs the two deepest, most significant, and also final songs of the LP alone. In the muted, at times shocking title track "Wellen," she describes moments of farewell to her father; then, in the embracing final piece "Heim kommen," the last circle closes - at the latest with the final line: "All is well, even if we have changed."
Door opens: 7:00 PM
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