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Christian Artmann: Our Story

Read "Our Story" reviewed by Troy Dostert


There are a number of different stories woven into Our Story, flautist Christian Artmann's first offering since 2015. Quotations in the liner notes from Zen sages Thich Nhat Hanh and Yasutani Roshi point to Artmann's Buddhist faith, but the fifth cut of the record, “Amazing Grace," makes a bit of room for the Christian narrative as well. And the album's cross-pollination of musical styles, from Brazilian inflections to funk to straight-ahead jazz, suggests that Artmann's ultimate purpose here is to ...

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Christian Artmann: Fields Of Pannonia

Read "Fields Of Pannonia" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Flautist Christian Artmann's work seems to be rooted in the notion that art can and will stretch as far as the imagination will take it. And in his case, that's quite a distance. With Fields Of Pannonia, Artmann presents an album-length fantasia, bringing jazz language, baroque influences, impressionistic ideals, swing, straight-eighth grooves, open-ended thoughts, and solidly-structured songs into contact with one another. Part of the charm of this music is in the way that Artmann and his ...

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Christian Hartmann/Urban M: Die Abwesenheit Des Igels

Read "Die Abwesenheit Des Igels" reviewed by Frank Rubolino


Bassist Christian Hartmann and pianist Urban Mäder seep into an introspective mood on two lengthy selections containing multiple movements on this intriguing recording. While Hartmann exorcises demons through his bass with elongated arco strides, Mäder punctuates the heavy atmosphere with stabbing, broken notes. Rules, however, are made to be broken, and the two suddenly awaken to an aggressive world where the ringing and highly reverberant tones of Mäder’s prepared piano with its object-laden strings join in a race with repetitive ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Our Story

Sunnyside Records
2018

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Fields Of Pannonia

Sunnyside Records
2015

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Die Abwesenheit Des...

*for*sake recordings
2003

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