Twilight Fields cover

Twilight Fields

Released

On Twilight Fields, his second release for ECM proper, talented multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus expands the sonic capabilities of the flowerpot, first revealed on 1982’s Wings Over Water. Artfully tuned and played by hand or with a mallet, these otherwise quotidian objects speak a xylophonic language in the company of instruments familiar to Micus listeners: hammered dulcimer, Bavarian zither, shakuhachi, and nay. Of the album’s five parts, the fourth is surely one of his most beautiful creations. The vocal qualities of his nay open like lotuses on a pond, foreshadowing a mournful fade.

Tyran Grillo

Suggestions
Chartres cover

Chartres

Paul Giger
Pond cover

Pond

John Hudak
Life cover

Life

Stephan Micus
Panagia cover

Panagia

Stephan Micus
Natural Causes cover

Natural Causes

Steve Tibbetts
The Sea cover

The Sea

Terje Rypdal, Ketil Bjørnstad, Jon Christensen, David Darling
On The Wing cover

On The Wing

Stephan Micus
Wings Over Water cover

Wings Over Water

Stephan Micus
Inland Sea cover

Inland Sea

Stephan Micus
Timeless cover

Timeless

Jan Hammer, Jack DeJohnette, John Abercrombie
Cello cover

Cello

David Darling