Michael Wollny - Nachtfahrten (CD)

Release Date: 10/09/15“Michael Wollny is making some impressive and artful noise in the realm of the new piano trio tradition” DOWNBEATDarkness is at the core of German pianist Michael Wollny`s album “Nachtfahrten”, the title of which can be translated as “night journeys”. It is music of steady state rather than of development. These are sounds that hover, which spread like ripples. Improvisation, as it is known from the jazz tradition, with its logical processes for developing solos, has been put aside in favour of something else. The shaping of melody, the conventional conversations within a piano trio are replaced by sounds which develop layer by layer. Wollny here is casting light onto “Neon Nocturnes,” he is developing sound pictures with a strong character of their own, finding natural resonances in darkness. He is not just asking questions that remain open, he is ensuring that they lead to new and ever more interesting questions. Wollny takes the listener to recogniz