Touch the Earth

Touch the Earth
Live album by
Released1980
RecordedNovember 13 & 14, 1979
VenueFlöz, Berlin
GenreJazz
Length40:47
LabelFMP
ProducerJost Gebers
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Spirit Catcher
(1979)
Touch the Earth
(1980)
Go in Numbers
(1982)
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Touch the Earth is an album by a free jazz trio consisting of American trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, German bassist Peter Kowald and German drummer Günter Sommer, which was recorded live in 1979 and released on the German FMP label. It was reissued on CD in a compilation titled Touch the Earth—Break the Shells, with some tracks from If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells, another album by the same trio.