Musicians can be so diverse! The Dresden pianist, composer and improviser Michael Fuchs presents his own works from three decades on one CD
Michael Fuchs’ music cannot be reduced to a common denominator. It sometimes sounds elegiac, sometimes intoxicatingly rousing, seems dreamy here, playful there and is always full of nuances. This diversity can hardly be a coincidence when you consider the artistic breadth of the Dresden all-round musician, who has made a name for himself as a pianist, composer and improviser for decades. He is also involved in a wide variety of band projects, as a soloist and, on top of that, at the music college as well as in film and theater – and also seems to be a veritable multi-instrumentalist.
This sum of impressions comes up again immediately when you look at his recently released CD “Select« turns to Own compositions from 1990 to the present can be heard there, mostly short excerpts that Fuchs recorded in various studios and in church buildings in and around Dresden. He usually sits at the piano, sometimes at the electronic keys, for the incidental music »Death of a Salesman« he also dares to sing scat, in the title »Kirchgang« he even intones something like a prayer, and on top of that he even picks up the violin. Michael Fuchs repeatedly receives musical support from the percussionist Volkmar Hoff, and several wind instrumentalists and Sven Helbig play the drums on this recording.
The result of all the seemingly never-ending wealth of ideas from the composer and improviser are almost two dozen quite different worlds of sound, almost all of which are felt to be far too short even when listening to them again. There can hardly be a better compliment.
Serious compromises, which are contrary to the acoustic impression, can only be made with the narrow accompanying booklet. This can hardly be described as a serious booklet, especially since the German orthography is dealt with in a playful way at best, so it definitely deserves an editor. That’s a pity in view of the musical trifles, precisely because they otherwise form so wonderfully into an illustrative, pictorial, almost mystical and in places an abysmally funny cosmos of sound.
2023-09-05 21:08:39
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