“This album means a lot to me. I think it's by far my most accomplished piece of music, things just fell into place. A group of my closest friends and musical companions came together and played the music in such a special way that I did not even dream of before, even though I knew they would be great. I started writing the music 14 days before the recording, the idea was to have easy pieces that don't need to be practiced much to be able to shape and inhale the music immediately from the start and not worry about too many notes. I think it went great.” Johannes Ludwig
Lineup:
Johannes Ludwig: Saxophones, Composition
Heidi Bayer: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Gero Schipmann: (Baritone) Guitar
Philipp Brämswig: Guitar
Lisa Wulff: Bass
Alexander Parzhuber: Drums
All music by Johannes Ludwig (GEMA)
A coproduction with Deutschlandfunk
Recorded September 20th-22nd 2021 at Kammermusiksaal Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
Tonmeister: Hannes Plattmeier
Engineer: Gunther Rose
Studio Assistant: Roman Weingardt
Executive Producer: Odilo Clausnitzer
Co-Production: Johannes Ludwig, Hannes Plattmeier, Claudia Döffinger
Mixed by Hannes Plattmeier at Ashfield Street Studios, London
Mastered by Alex DeTurk at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn
Photos taken from video by Karl-Friedrich Degenhardt
Cover design and concept by Mathias Fleck
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbh and Cologne Jazz Supporters
