Joachim Kühn - Touch the Light (CD)

Release Date: 02/26/21“Joachim Kühn finds the living heart of each song and wrings out every drop of emotional heft. Insanely gorgeous.” New York City Jazz RecordWhen producer Siggi Loch first floated the idea that Joachim Kühn might like to make an album of ballads, the pianist’s response was jocular and rebellious, as is typical of him: “Maybe when I’m ninety...” That initial resistance wasn’t to last long, and Kühn, now in his midseventies, soon started to settle down at the Steinway in his home, switch on his DAT recorder, and set to work. “The advantage of being here at home in Ibiza is that I can simply make a recording when I want to. When the feeling comes, I just record,” Kühn reflects. Over a period of about fifteen months he sent a total of some forty individual tracks to Loch. He would often take pieces, re-think them, and end up sending off several different versions. So what emerges on “Touch the Light” is a distillation from those individual takes, a