Matthias Lindermayr
A sound – lonesome and intensly calling. You hear the air streaming, you feel rough-tangy sand in the ear. There is tension in this sound and the desire to tell a story.

To find on the new CD by trumpeter Matthias Lindermayr: From Krautrock à la Can to Björk‘s electro-pop, from Miles Davis to the nordic melancholy of Matthias Eick. All of this is immersed in Matthias Lindermayr’s music. He has found his own concoction and he has a lot to tell with his music: a thrilling adventure story as in the title track Lang Tang which owes its name to a region in Nepal through the vastness of which the trumpeter hiked in 2008.

The composition Rendezvous tells a romantic love story without any kitsch. Close to minimal art the piece Invincible spirals to an abrupt end and in slow-motion The Hymn densifies. Lindermayr has a feeling for vigorous harmonies and unexpected changes of moods. With strong momentum the pieces are captivating, often by means of an ingeniously simple theme which keeps spinning on.

Matthias Lindermayr succeeded to win outstanding artists for his quintet: The Pakistan born and for many years in Munich living guitarist Azhar Kamal – coproducer of the CD – lets his boundless musical horizon which reaches from sound installations, theatrical music to experiments in classical music flow in unobtrusively.

The Munich based keyboardist Roberto Di Gioia plays the grand piano only. After years with Klaus Doldinger’s Passport, electro-sound fiddlings and the fun duet with Wigald Boning it impresses to hear Di Gioia’s great subtlety for the acoustic instrument again.

The bass foundation is delivered by Andreas Kurz on the acoustic bass – wooden and clear, no effect is superimposed on his earthy groove.

Drummer Andi Haberl lets his full personality enter into the music. Playing the drums with the indie-rock band The Notwist and with many jazz groups he gives Lindermayr’s music perfectly balanced, vibrant beats.

The trumpeter’s harmonious compositions are still refined by these musicians. There is much in the sound and the music of Matthias Lindermayr which makes you want to listen to it again and again. (Ulrich Habersetzer, Bayerischer Rundfunk)