GALL,CHRIS - Room Of Silence (Sealed) (CD)

All alone he sat by his grand piano and sometimes also by an almost antique artefact, a piano that had clearly seen better days, “where everything rattled and nothing was perfect.” The background noise is dominant, but that’s why I wanted it I wanted to let the sound character work. ” Chris Gall smiles. And also because the title of his new album “Room Of Silence” fulfills his promise: It invites the listener to a trip into the night, and at any time of day. You sit there and listen and close your eyes, because someone has turned on the clock, it now seems slower. As if someone translated the concept of Slow Food into music. The interpreter is Chris Gall, his audiophile guest gradually becomes a listener and finally the director of his own mental cinema. Although this was already the case with his trio works, “but if I play alone,” Gall says, “there is still a bit more space for the listener’s imagination.” And they’ll be presented by Gall with the very same” Room Of Silence “. a place for quiet and peaceful lingering, perhaps even the contemplation that he wants to show his listeners Wondering from where the South German collects the humus of his wordless soundtracks. What inspired him to get a title called “The Puppeteer”? Gall does not have to think twice, “that’s a character from the movie ‘Being John Malkovich’.” John Cusack plays the puppeteer as a frustrated melancholic artist, “this desperate character inspired me, and most of the pieces have such a background.” n turn, “Another Love Song” was inspired by his Armenian colleague Tigran Hamasyan. In addition to Gall’s own compositions, recorded on a wonderful Steinway grand piano, there are also four cover versions on the album, all recorded on said old piano. In “It Never Entered My Mind” the pianist refers to “the famous Miles Davis quintet version of ‘Working’ from the year 1956.” My right hand almost plays the exact Miles Davis voice transcribed by me, while my left hand is based on Radiohead’s ‘Daydreaming’ from 2016. An object of fascination. Alongside Antonio Carlos Jobim’s rarely played” Estrada Branca “, the record also features John Lennon’s “Julia”. Here he tried to follow the old guitar sounds,” which have something very archaic”. Chris Gall’s second solo album has taken him back to a slightly different production process, following his release of the trio album “Cosmic-Playground” in early 2018. “Of course, it’s structured differently because I do not have to give anyone the sheet music at an agreed time and tell them exactly when we rehearse and record.” He was more flexible and could still work on his compositions and arrangements until the last second.