The fact that legendary groups such as the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return To Forever or Weather Report with their groovy, energetic compositions inspired an entire generation of musicians goes back decades. Today there are only a few bands in this genre. One of the artists who has been feeding the Fusion-Flamme with fresh and atmospheric titles for 15 years is the Bremen composer and keyboardist Michael Schmidt, alias MSM Schmidt. The insurance businessman is an exclusive hobby. Again and again he manages to lure the cream of the US fusion scene into the studio for the recording of his compositions. On Life, his sixth album, he has also achieved this in an impressive way. With names such as Allan Holdsworth and Oz Noy (guitar), Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Gary Novak (drums), Jerry Goodman (violin), Mitch Forman (keyboards) or Jimmy Haslip (bass), who also produced the album, fusion fans all over the world are likely to flick their tongues. Now MSM Schmidt presents his new album Life. Digipak mit Booklet produced by Jimmy Haslip featuring Charlie Bisharat, Rich Breen, Katisse Buckingham, John Daversa, Virgil Donati, Brandon Fields, Mitchel Forman, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Jerry Goidman, Jimmy Haslip, Allan Holdsworth, Scott Kinsey, Larry Koonse, Mike Miller, Andy Milne, Bob Mintzer, MonoNeon, Jost Nickel, Gary Novak, Oz Noy, Michael Schmid, Ruslan Sirota, Andy Snitzer, Steve Tavaglione, Sophia Wackerman, Dave Weckl
