This album has to be one of the more intriguing releases I’ve heard this month. Wilfried Hanrath is a composer based in Wuppertal, Germany (home, if I remember correctly, to free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann as well), and grew up surrounded by some of the most radical music imaginable: Krautrock, jazz fusion, early German electronic music and perhaps a large dose of progressive and psychedelic rock. The album showcases his influences in a stunning way, though I understand this album is more a reinterpretation of the works of others rather than a purely original album. He crafts each song as though it were part of some non-existent soundtrack. Really, another artist worth following.
