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Michael Wollny

Piano Works VII - Hexentanz

Act

Album description

A highly fascinating trip out into an entirely new world of wild angularity, enchantingly tender moments and oppressively spooky moods.

Hexentanz – the ACT solo album by young piano star Michael Wollny has created a personal and colourful musical language (described as 'gothic') that accommodates films by Ken Russell or Vincent Price just as easily as it embraces the ambivalence of Franz Schubert’s musical universe or the songs of Björk.

Wollny is not concerned with the superficial thrill, but rather with an expanded understanding of the awesome, with goose bumps in the twilight, and first and foremost with enthralling piano music.

Few jazz musicians of his generation have received comparable recognition in the jazz press over the last two years. The “Financial Times Deutschland” describes him as a “comet of the German jazz scene” and the British magazine "Jazzwise" takes it for granted that "Wollny could well become a major talent in European jazz“.

The heart of the album is the five-part suite “Hexentanz” (“Witch Dance”), movements from a strange world, mostly quiet, dangerous but also distant, weird and enchanted.