Flying Pooka!

Flying Pooka! – The Ecstasy of Becoming (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:54 minutes | 963 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alma Records HD

Juno-winning pianist Florian Hoefner and wind/vocal improviser Dani Oore unite in a transformative and spellbinding journey.

Sometimes the best musical collaborations are created by chance. Juno-winning pianist and composer Florian Hoefner took a leap of faith when he moved to remote St. John’s in Canada’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2014. While the beauty and remoteness of the place greatly inspired his artistic output, the size of its jazz scene at that time required Hoefner to mostly rely on his existing connections from his time in Berlin, New York City and Toronto for his musical projects. It was a great surprise when just before the pandemic, interdisciplinary wind and vocal improviser Dani Oore ended up in St. John’s for a posting as postdoc with IICSI (the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation). The two had briefly met once before and never played music together. At a brief informal jam the synergy between their musical concepts became immediately apparent and they began performing together as a duo. Being grounded on an island during the pandemic strengthened their musical bond, and they emerged with a recording of fully improvised music on the highest imaginative plane, something that felt whole, a story from beginning to end.

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