• digipack edition

This, it seems to me, is the great strength of Sophie Lüssi’s music here on Atlantic Puffin. It is clearly skilled and doesn't deal in casual approximations. It is built on solid technique, a brilliant appropriation of classical violin methods in the interests of improvisation. But her music, which draws on folk as well as canonical forms, is one that emanates from and addresses the whole person. It's generous music, kindly and open, and in its gentle humour it engages a part of the spirit that in our grim-faced, superserious way is too often overlooked. So: music for the head, hand and heart; and you might find yourself dancing a little, too, in delight if not in strict time. - Brian Morton

PERSONNEL:

Sophie Lüssi - (violin & tenor violin)
Sandra Weiss - (alto saxophone & bassoon)
Fridolin Blumer - (double bass)
Andreas Wettstein - (drums)

Recorded at Hardstudios AG Winterthur, February, 2022

TRACKS:

01 Atlantic Puffin
02 Valse pour Ornette IX
03 Chimango
04 Valse pour Ornette IIX
05 Chiffchaff
06 Valse pour Ornette X
07 Waxwing
08 Valse pour Ornette XI
09 Orpheusspötter
10 Valse pour Ornette XIII
11 Cachalote castaño
12 Valse pour Ornette XII