Michael Wollny - Mondenkind (LP)

"Michael Wollny combines a pristine touch with a capacity for surprise and the album Mondenkind conveys a sense of weightless wonder." WBGO 180 gram Black Virgin Vinyl with a free Download Code included!The recording of Mondenkind (moon child) in April 2020 fell in the middle of the worldwide lockdown. 'The situation was surreal,' remembers Wollny. 'I spent two days in the large live room in Berlin's Teldex Studio. It was the first time in a very long time that I had been alone and without fellow musicians in a studio. On the way to the recordings I would be alone in a car, travelling through the empty city, and in the evening I would walk back to my empty hotel. I was absolutely alone with myself and with the music, and the ideas that surfaced in this situation went far beyond the original concept of the album. Being alone made me think about 'soloists' in different contexts, and that's how the story of the astronaut Michael Collins came into my mind. He orbited the moon alone during