CD: Living Ghosts
Michael Wollny Trio
release date: 28 Feb 2025
Living Ghosts" by the Michael Wollny Trio invites the listener on an immersive and spontaneous journey in which past compositions evolve in real time through collective improvisation.
The album captures an evening in the spring of 2024 when the trio performed completely intuitively, guided only by the shifting spirits of their past compositions. The evening was filled with moments where the familiar themes of their songbook unexpectedly emerged, sometimes lingering briefly, sometimes taking new, unexpected paths. These "ghosts" of the past were reinterpreted and allowed to evolve in real time, reflecting the trio's deep, ongoing dialog with its musical history.
"Since the release of our last studio album 'Ghosts', the trio has performed the material from it on several tours and at all kinds of venues - sometimes purely acoustic, sometimes as a mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds.
The album captures an evening in the spring of 2024 when the trio performed completely intuitively, guided only by the shifting spirits of their past compositions. The evening was filled with moments where the familiar themes of their songbook unexpectedly emerged, sometimes lingering briefly, sometimes taking new, unexpected paths. These "ghosts" of the past were reinterpreted and allowed to evolve in real time, reflecting the trio's deep, ongoing dialog with its musical history.
"Since the release of our last studio album 'Ghosts', the trio has performed the material from it on several tours and at all kinds of venues - sometimes purely acoustic, sometimes as a mixture of electronic and acoustic sounds.