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█████▀ Michael Wollny - Wunderkammer ▀█████
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████ GENRE...[ Jazz GRABBER.[ EAC ████
████ LABEL...[ ACT ENCODER.[ Lame 3.97 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2009 QUALiTY.[ avg. 176kbps ████
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████ PLAYTIME[ 51:32 min REL.DATE[ 11.09.2009 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 12 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 67,1 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Stundenglas 04:52 ████
████ 02 Kabinett II 05:15 ████
████ 03 Chur 04:21 ████
████ 04 Kabinett III 03:44 ████
████ 05 Mesmer 03:56 ████
████ 06 Kabinett IV 04:16 ████
████ 07 Palimpsest 03:25 ████
████ 08 Kabinett VI 05:58 ████
████ 09 SagΘe 06:03 ████
████ 10 Kabinett V 03:32 ████
████ 11 Amethyst 02:55 ████
████ 12 Kabinett I 03:15 ████
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████ TOTAL: 51:32 ████
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████ The young German pianist Michael Wollny is ████
████ nothing if not prolific. He has appeared on ████
████ these pages as a member of the influential ████
████ trio {em} with bassist Eva Kruse and drummer ████
████ Eric Schaefer, as one half of a piano duo with ████
████ Joachim Kuhn (ôLive at Schloss Elmauö) and as ████
████ a solo artist with his ôGothicö project ████
████ ôHexentanzö. ████
████ ████
████ If {em} represents the jazzier side of ████
████ WollnyÆs musical personality his solo projects ████
████ are more of a reflection of his classical ████
████ leanings. However with Wollny being the ████
████ creative soul that he is these are explored in ████
████ interesting and innovative ways. In some ████
████ respects ôWunderkammerö is similar to ████
████ ôHexentanzö in that Wollny has an overall mood ████
████ and concept in mind, in this case an ████
████ exploration of the magical properties of ████
████ keyboard instruments both ancient and modern. ████
████ Thus we hear Wollny not only on piano but also ████
████ on historic keyboards in the forms of celesta, ████
████ harpsichord and harmonium. On two tracks he ████
████ appears on Fender Rhodes bringing the history ████
████ of the piano right up to date. In this fusion ████
████ of ancient and modern Wollny is frequently ████
████ overdubbed and duets with himself but at other ████
████ times he engages in genuine two way dialogue ████
████ with Israeli musician Tamar Halperin who ████
████ specialises in harpsichord and occasional ████
████ celesta. The role of producer and sometime ████
████ arranger Guy Sternberg is also crucial to the ████
████ success of these recordings. ████
████ ████
████ ôWunderkammerö literally means ôchamber of ████
████ curiositiesö and although WollnyÆs choice of ████
████ instruments evokes the sounds of a musical ████
████ museum his music also has a highly ████
████ contemporary quality. The mood is often ████
████ ethereal and other worldly as befits the ████
████ albumÆs title and ôfairyö cover imagery. Often ████
████ the sound is reminiscent of cuckoo clocks, old ████
████ musical boxes and other archaic instruments of ████
████ mechanical music. There is a hint of the ████
████ Gothic again but the mood here is less intense ████
████ than on ôHexentanzö. ôWunderkammerö seeks to ████
████ enchant rather than frighten the listener. . ████
████ This it does magnificently over the course of ████
████ itÆs twelve relatively short tracks. The ████
████ opening ôStundenglasö features an overdubbed ████
████ Wollny playing grand piano, Rhodes and the ████
████ delicately ringing celesta. Wollny features ████
████ himself on the ôheavenlyö celesta on no fewer ████
████ than eight pieces which gives a good idea of ████
████ the albumÆs intentions. ████
████ ████
████ Six of the pieces are entitled ôKabinettö, ████
████ literally ôrooms in which different things ████
████ happen.ö The first of these to be heard is ████
████ actually ôKabinett IIö a sparkling meeting ████
████ between Wollny on piano, celesta and ████
████ occasional harmonium plus Halperin on ████
████ harpsichord. ████
████ ████
████ The darker ôChurö was jointly arranged by ████
████ Wollny and producer Sternburg, who also ████
████ receives credits on the later ôKabinettsö IV ████
████ and I. ████
████ ôWunderkammerö takes itÆs title from the ████
████ secret rooms in castles and monasteries where ████
████ leaders stored their treasures in Renaissance ████
████ and Baroque times. All kinds of curios might ████
████ be found here and the gently chiming ôKabinett ████
████ IIIö seems to encapsulate the eccentric charm ████
████ of these places. Wollny plays the harpsichord ████
████ parts himself alongside piano and celesta. ████
████ ôMesmerö seems to shimmer on the horizon, a ████
████ duet between Wollny on piano and celesta and ████
████ Halperin on harpsichord against a backdrop of ████
████ subliminal harmonium. ████
████ WollnyÆs interlocking keyboards on ôKabinett ████
████ IVö have an almost Steve Reich quality at ████
████ times and contrast well with the following ████
████ ôPalimpsestö, a lyrical piece for solo piano ████
████ that emphasises the spaces between the notes. ████
████ ████
████ ôKabinett VIö re-unites Wollny with Halperin ( ████
████ heard here on both harpsichord and celesta) ████
████ for what is the most contemporary sounding ████
████ piece on the album. Interlocking Reichsian ████
████ keyboard patterns combine with freer episodes ████
████ featuring Rhodes and harmonium. ████
████ ████
████ ôSageeö, at just over six minutes is the ████
████ lengthiest track on the album, a reflective ████
████ piano/harpsichord duet between Wollny and ████
████ Halperin that emphasises the lyrical side of ████
████ their playing. The piece is named after the ████
████ 19th C doppelganger figure Emilie Sagee. ████
████ HalperinÆs harpsichord is, in effect, the ████
████ shadow of WollnyÆs piano. ████
████ ████
████ ôKabinett Vö is another overdubbing ████
████ extravaganza with Wollny featuring on piano, ████
████ harpsichord and celesta. The sound is very ████
████ contemporary with a single keyboard figure ████
████ looping throughout the track as Wollny throws ████
████ in some jazz chords and uses the body of the ████
████ piano for percussive effects. ████
████ ôAmethystö is a brief passage for glacial solo ████
████ piano, again using the innards of the ████
████ instrument. ████
████ ôKabinett Iö closes the album by drawing many ████
████ of the elements of the album together. ████
████ Halperin appears on harpsichord, Wollny on ████
████ piano, celesta and harmonium, the latter ████
████ providing a kind of subliminal sonic backwash. ████
████ ItÆs a charming way to finish an often ████
████ charming album. ████
████ ████
████ ôWunderkammerÆsö blend of ancient and modern, ████
████ composition and improvisation, early music and ████
████ jazz sounds like nothing else IÆve ever heard. ████
████ Wollny has extraordinary musical vision and ████
████ has created a unique and unified sound world ████
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