Trio Obscur: éclairage intime

 
1. lisboa 3:32
2. joshua 2:35
3. cäsar 2:21
4. séparée 4:10
5. valse de belleville 3:52
6. circus 2:28
7. valse bordeaux 3:48
8. million tango 3:19
Prelistening:
9. tango triste 3:52
10. juliette 2:46
11. merlin hat sex 2:17
Prelistening:
12. tango obscur 2:45
Prelistening:
13. magnétique tango 3:42
14. hôtel royal 2:40
15. samba 2:35
16. valse très unknown 2:08
17. jetzat 1:51
18. red velvet 3:36
19. wasser 3:52
20. lulu 1:28

total playing time 60:18

compositions: Peter Ludwig

arrangements: Trio Obscur

recorded and mixed in August 1998

engineer: David Schopper

produced by Peter Ludwig

Release date 02/05/2001

All it takes is a piano, a saxophone, and a double bass. What you get is amazing: from yearning fado improvisations and jazzed up minimal klezmer, through supple tangos, pining love ballads and melancholic waltzes in slow motion, to sensually cool bossa nova and 'round midnight jazz. One moment you are reminded of French black and white films, the next of Fellini's light-hearted circus clowns. Whether it takes you gently by surprise, or comes at you head-on, whether it's whizzing by or almost coming to a halt, it's always vibrant, emotional and taught. It's perfectly balanced and enlightened by an intimate kind of illumination ...