CD: We are doing well

We are doing well. At first, that's a pretty broad-shouldered statement - especially in these times. But, as always, it depends on the context and the sender. And that's Joo Kraus here. A musician who prefers to dissolve genre boundaries and style labels and makes music the way he lives: free and feeling. So it is quite possible that the album has a few extra dimensions. (Spoiler: Yes it does.)

It's been four years since Joo Kraus hinted at where he is musically going with the album JooJazz: From his home planet Jazz, he goes on ever more extensive voyages of discovery to play with falling stars from other galaxies beyond any crossover orthodoxy - they are called now soul, funk, pop, latin or electro. The music that Joo brought back from these trips was already an ear-opening event on JooJazz. But We Are Doing Well opens the horizon even further: In the 10 songs he simply lets go of all the category lines, abandons himself to the flow - and maybe finds a new home because he wasn't looking for it: unlimited playfulness, virtuoso outlawed and unintentionally profound . Welcome to Jootopia.