“ACT seems to be on a mission to introduce the world to Europe's rising new jazz-classical pianists,” the UK’s leading jazz critic John Fordham of the Guardian has noted. And jazz for piano has indeed always been part of ACT's DNA. The label’s roster includes pianists who have achieved international renown such as Joachim Kühn, Esbjörn Svensson and Michael Wollny; and more recently the Austrian David Helbock has started to be recognized as the major talent he clearly is. Siggi Loch started the dedicated album series “Piano Works” to present the finest in solo piano playing, and Rainer Böhm with his album “hýdōr” becomes the latest pianist to enter this pantheon.Born in Ravensburg in Southern Germany in 1977 and now based in Cologne, Böhm is considered by critics to be one of the country’s outstanding jazz pianists, yet among the wider...
Rainer Böhm / piano
1 Bass Study (Part I) ( Rainer Böhm) 05:04
2 Bass Study (Part II) ( Rainer Böhm) 02:45
3 hýdor ( Rainer Böhm) 02:25
4 Badi Bada ( Rainer Böhm) 03:46
5 Terzen ( Rainer Böhm) 02:10
6 Two Minds ( Rainer Böhm) 02:10
7 Catalyst ( Rainer Böhm) 05:55
8 Brazilian Movie Song ( Rainer Böhm) 05:22
9 Querstand ( Rainer Böhm) 01:50
10 Expansion And Reduction ( Rainer Böhm) 04:22
11 Thumb Up, Broken Toe ( Rainer Böhm) 05:05
12 Hypo ( Rainer Böhm) 04:52
13 hýdor Reprise ( Rainer Böhm) 03:46
Music composed and produced by Rainer Böhm
Recorded by Stefan Deistler at Tonstudio Loft, Cologne, August 10 & 11, 2017
Mixed by Stefan Deistler
Mastered by Klaus Scheuermann
Cover art by Hermann Rudorf, Woge (1998)
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018
