Nguyên Lê enlightens the Floyd’s repertoire – pure happiness – and enchants it with the collusion of the NDR Bigband and its brilliant soloists, deploying new sound-textures created by the uplifting orchestrations of Michael Gibbs. The arrangements here provide choice settings for inspired improvisations and also reveal other compositions which appear as natural extensions of the original opus.

Jasper van´t Hof & Bob Malach, Philip Catherine & Martin Wind, Michael Wollny & Marius Neset, Nils Landgren & Esbjorn Svensson, Youn Sun Nah & Ulf Wakenius, Nguyen Le & Paolo Fresu, George Mraz & Emil Viklický, Wayne Kranz & Bob Malach, Eddie Harris & Gil Goldstein

A marvellous musical collage of European folk music which embodies elements of symphonic music, swing, free jazz, blues and flamenco

Radio Philharmonie Hannover NDR,  Michael Gibbs - conductor, Joachim Kühn – piano, Jean-François Jenny Clark – bass, Jon Christensen – drums , Django Bates – horn , Douglas Boyd – oboe , Klaus Doldinger – soprano saxophone, Richard Galliano – accordion, Christof Lauer – soprano saxophone, Albert Mangelsdorff – trombone , Markus Stockhausen – trumpet

A new beginning for Tonbruket: Some of the tracks are extremely soft and gentle, romantic, acoustic, jazz-inspired, while others use prog rock as a springboard from which to make the short leap into heavy metal. The pieces the band plays can differ hugely from each other in shape, intensity and stylistic origin. The result of this is that the listener's attention tends to be drawn away from the specific and from the moment-to-moment, and towards the totality of what is happening.