When I Was Taranczewski with Olaf Taranczewski

• 1 Coco 04:19
• 2 And Everything Was Calm 07:06
• 3 The Composer 05:06
• 4 Grønland 06:31
• 5 When I Was 04:26
• 6 Thing of Souls 03:34
• 7 Ligature 08:02
• 8 Twenty-One Years 03:56
• 9 Mysore 06:26
• 10 Me Time 04:53
• 11 Take Me Home 04:03
• Total Runtime 58:22

Info for When I Was

Taranczewski is a trio from Berlin. Connoisseurs of film soundtracks may be familiar with the name Olaf Taranczewski, for everyone else the band Taranczewski comes out of nowhere, and yet after just a few notes it seems as if it had always been there.

This impression does not come about by chance. Pianist Olaf Taranczewski has known bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle and drummer Benedikt Stehle for decades, and yet they have never played together in this constellation. The pianist is the composer and namesake of the band, but as one can easily hear on the debut album "When I Was", Taranczewski is a stable triangle whose impulses and playing shares are evenly and - more importantly - equally distributed.

The perfection of form of classical music, the nonchalant spontaneity of jazz piano trios such as Bill Evans, the emotionality of Americana music, the binding closeness of fusion music, the epic sound understanding of film soundtracks, the accumulated reductiveness of minimal music, the narrative flow of moritatas, the melancholy cheerfulness of Yiddish music, the individual expressiveness of chansons - all this comes together on "When I Was" to form a unity that has never been heard before.

Olaf Taranczewski, piano
Jean-Philippe Wadle; double bass
Benedikt Stehle, drums

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