Changes in perspective change perceptions and truths. It takes courage and a willingness to take risks to break out of the beaten track. Once you have settled in comfortably, you seldom seek change. For Tini Thomsen, an artistic life without the desire for something new, without the broadening of her musical horizon is inconceivable. D i e baritone saxophonist and composer is always on the lookout for new expressive possibilities, forms and fields of activity. Three years after her debut album "MaxSax" followed "The Long Ride". Meanwhile, the alto saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock added to the quintet and MaxSax's music no longer came along with the brute jelly-like elemental force of the debut, but, as the jazz podium stated, a subtle, slightly roughened funkyness, as known from Defunkt or the blessed Slickaphonics, sneaked quietly and quietly into the music. Since Nigel joined, I have the feeling that the band sounds really round and homogeneous. With a second saxophone we have more solo possibilities, more sound variables up our sleeve. Maybe that's why the music sounds a bit better balanced now. The brute elements of the first record are still there, but they are more well balanced in a broader sound image.
