Crosswinds by CHRISTOPH IRNIGER PILGRIM with Dave Gisler, Stefan Aeby, Raffaele Bossard, Michi Stulz

Intakt CD 323

Christoph Irniger, a prodigious stylist with a warm sound,
presents the third album with his band Pilgrim on Intakt Records.
With "Crosswinds" the saxophonist who relishes adventure
and surprise delivers a cultivated studio album. Multi-layered,
subtle and melodically entangled, the eight pieces radiate a
wondrous, atmospheric tranquility. A highly nuanced music with
a magical sound.
Peter Margasak writes in the liner notes: „Crosswinds – this
new, gorgeously considered, but luxuriantly open new recording
by tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim – is
palpably more relaxed on the surface than the quintet’s previous
albums, yet beneath that veneer of calm is intensely
focused and rigorous interplay as well as a level of risk-taking.
Irniger and his bandmates have developed a richly contemporary
sound that melds ideas from some of the most harmonically
advanced thinkers in the US with a distinctly European flavor
heard most explicitly“.

Tracklist

1.	Big Wheel	9:05
2.	Luce Oscura	4:59

3.	Point Of View	8:01
4.	Miniature	1:17
5.	Crosswinds	9:07

6.	C Major Improvisation	3:38
7.	Studio Song	3:35
8.	Inside	6:56
9.	Aeon	5:58

Credits

released January 18, 2019

Christoph Irniger: Tenor Saxophone
Dave Gisler: Guitar
Stefan Aeby: Piano
Raffaele Bossard: Bass
Michi Stulz: Drums

intaktrec.ch/323.htm

Recorded April 15–18, 2018 and mixed June 21–22,
2018 by Gérard de Haro, assisted by Anaëlle Marsollier
at Studio La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, France.
Mastered in July 2018 at Pousaz Sound Lab by André
Pousaz. Liner notes by Peter Margasak.
Cover art: le_steffou. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder.

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