“This is my best album yet.”
– Ottmar
“It’s difficult to find fault with this album, either in terms of the compositions or the playing or the mixing design. These are instrumentals that talk…“
– Laurence Russell / Culture Court
Nominated for a 2008 Grammy
Each of these ten instrumentals draws a picture, and each picture tells a story. It’s music as a smell that triggers unexpected memories. India, 1978… Granada, 1992… each track has a strong atmosphere of time and place, like the journal of an itinerant poet or painter. Tracks range from over 5 minutes to almost 12 minutes. Each piece shifts and evolves, sometimes going through several tempo and rhythm changes, “The River” features Tangos, Rumba and 6/8 rhythms, sometimes building from a haunting solo-guitar performance to the full drive of the band, as in “Silence: No More Longing”.
