Uli Johannes Kieckbusch, Piano

Improvisations at the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano

For over thirty years, as a composer and improviser, Uli Johannes Kieckbusch has been occupying himself not only with jazz and new music, but also with old folksongs.
He continued to pursue the folksong line now, for example in his composition "Blaumond - Nachtmusik für vier Klaviere" (Blue Moon - Night Music for Four Pianos), in which he repeatedly sheds light on quotations, fragments and scraps of traditional songs about the moon, also allowing them to catch fire and burn. This is done simply out of the conviction that songs that have accompanied us from childhood onwards can also enrich our later lives, both consciously and subconsciously, with an incomparably deep connection to all adult expressions of the spirit. And this takes place far removed from any form of provincial chauvinism. Although the songs about the moon are hidden or fragmentary on "Blaumond", on this new CD recording "Abend wird es wieder - Evening Moods", they are first introduced in their entirety before the improvisation begins.
For this, Kieckbusch has written arrangements for each song in which his personal style is immediately recognisable. He already successfully realised this concept on his CD "weit und still" (far and still). It is interesting to note how the Christmas carols contained on it differ, also improvisationally, from the evening songs presented here.

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