Artist: 
Benjamin Lackner

Spindrift

LP
€28,99

Release date: 17 January 2025

Article Number: 512203000

Back with a newly formed quintet, gathered together for a particularly fruitful 2024 session in Southern France, the German pianist Benjamin Lackner presents a different and exciting side of his composer-approach. Trumpeter Mathias Eick is the sole returnee from Lackner’s debut Last Decade, and can be heard in striking dualism with Mark Turner’s idiosyncratic saxophone dialect, forming a key-characteristic of the interplay that permeates Spindrift. The horn-duo and pianist are joined by the nonpareil bassist Linda May Han Oh and French drummer Matthieu Chazarenc, who was part of Lackner’s trio before the pianist’s tenure with ECM. Subtle fanfares meet contemplative lyricism in a programme of originals that always puts melody and ensemble chemistry first. Saxophone and trumpet take the lead, forming their own little ensemble section, and contribute elegantly interwoven lines and striking solos to an especially harmonious group sound and a tuneful set of songs. The album was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Tracklist

Vinyl – Side A:
01. Spindrift
02. Mosquito Flats
03. More Mesa
04. Chambary
05. See You Again My Friend

Vinyl – Side B:
01. Murnau
02. Fair Warning
03. Anacapa
04. Ahwahnee
05. Out of the Fog