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Michael Wollny with Emile Parisien, Tim Lefebvre & Christian Lillinger – XXXX (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:44 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
The beasts are loose! At the end of 2019, just a few months before the curtain fell over the world, pianist Michael Wollny (who has gone electric for this album), saxophonist Émile Parisien, bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Christian Lillinger all entered the A-Trane club in Berlin with no set-list and no roadmap. Over the course of eight sets, these four fascinating, crazy, contemporary jazz scientists conversed, provoked, fought, embraced, and entwined. What they created here was electro, krautrock, free, progressive – it was more than simply jazz. The sound defies classification, and maybe it’s better that way. With the help of producer Jason Kingsland, who mainly deals in rock productions (Kaiser Chiefs, Band of Horses, Belle and Sebastian), they turned almost eight hours of live recording into 45 minutes of studio material. The result is a fascinating experience. Naturally, XXXX is rather less accessible than Sidney Bechet’s Petite fleur. But the listener can’t help but be carried away by the generosity of these wild exchanges and the energy of the four musicians who never fall into the trap of a complacent, inward-looking jam. Sensitive souls steer clear! Curious souls, get stuck in! – Marc Zisman
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Michael Wollny with Tim Lefebvre & Eric Schaefer – Ghosts (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:37 minutes | 754 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
“As an improviser, you often find that it‘s not the compositions themselves you‘re playing, but your own memories of them. And as these memories come back to you in the moment, they assert their continuing existence in the here and now,” says Michael Wollny. In other words, songs are like ghosts. Wollny‘s new album “Ghosts” is a gathering of some of the ghosts that regularly haunt him. Typically for Wollny, they range from classics like Franz Schubert’s “Erlkönig” to jazz standards, film music, songs with a certain fragility by Nick Cave, say, or the band Timber Timbre, and also include his own darkly evocative original compositions.
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