Michael Wollny Wasted & Wanted
The new album by "Germany's strongest (jazz)musician personality since Albert Mangelssdorff" (Hamburger Abendblatt): In all the cracks in which the convention does not want them, Michael Wollny's [em] is researching new music. An adventure full of ingenuity, power and virtuosity.
"Beauty through confusion, truth through collision."(Daniel Richter)Beauty is not a particularly reliable term. Some find Rammstein beautiful, some like the bat. You can't explain it, even if we keep trying. We can't really make it clear to our counterpart why we like one image and don't like the other. There is said to have been a time when Franz Schubert was considered kitsch by some. With the truth, it's not much better. Some say that every now and then lies are truer than the truth. We lie to convince others of our truth. We are looking for an intense form of truth that we can only achieve through staging. Werner Herzog calls this the ecstasy of truth. Mahler might have liked that, too. When a band goes to the studio to search for new Mu...
Line up:
Michael Wollny / Piano, Spinet
Eva Kruse / bass, glockenspiel
Eric Schaefer / drums, vocals, guitar
Recording Details:
Produced by Guy Sternberg
Executive Producer: Siggi Loch
Recorded in August 2011 at FWL Studios Leipzig and in November 2011 in Hansa Studios Berlin by Guy Sternberg.
Cover art: Love is the Drug (Detail), 2011 by Daniel Richter / ACT Art Collection
Limited edition plus Bonus CD: Live at JazzFest Berlin
Track List:
- Wasted & Wanted ( Wollny, Michael)03:35
- Symphony No. V, Mov 1: Trauermarsch ( Mahler, Gustav)03:36
- Metall ( Kruse, Eva)03:51
- Blank ( Schaefer, Eric)05:31
- Kulintang ( Schaefer, Eric)03:21
- Cembalo Manifeszt ( Schaefer, Eric)03:13
- Wasserklavier ( Berio, Luciano)02:40
- Ihr Bild ( Schubert, Franz)04:51
- Nr. 10 ( Kruse, Eva)03:30
- Das Modell ( Huetter, Ralf / Bartos, Karl)04:09
- Dario ( Wollny, Michael)03:47
- Whiteout ( Wollny, Michael)05:11