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Christian Artmann: Our Story
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 ...
read moreChristian Artmann: Fields Of Pannonia
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 ...
read moreChristian Hartmann/Urban M: Die Abwesenheit Des Igels
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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