Mathias Eick trumpet Trygve Seim tenor and soprano saxophones Marcin Wasilewski piano Slawomir Kurkiewicz double-bass Manu Katché drums David Torn guitar on Lo and Song For Her (var.) Lo
Pieces Of Emotion
Song For Her
So Groovy
Morning Joy
Motion
Project 58
Snapshot
Possible Thought
Inside Game
Clubbing
Song For Her, var.
Eagerly awaited second ECM album by French-African drummer Manu Katché. Recorded in New York’s Avatar Studio in January 2007, “Playground” picks up where the best-selling “Neighbourhood” left off: in the interim the project has coalesced into a rip-roaring and fully-integrated band. Manu’s group, featuring a Polish/Norwegian confederacy of young players, is energized by his hard driving drums and by his compositions which invite spirited solos... Together, the quintet - whose strong new frontline features Mathias Eick and Trygve Seim - makes exciting, zestful music.