From Latin America via Catalonia back to Leipzig: a crossover artist of jazz.

An album like an imaginary walk through an exhibition of large-format photographs is how the Leipzig pianist Jonas Timm describes his latest project "Narcís", to which he invited his six musicians, who are as unique as they are subtle, to collaborate.

Faces, landscapes, places, near and far. Widely scattered, sometimes clearer and sometimes more blurred. Images that record and capture emotions on the carrier material and not only show themselves, but also always refer to their counterpart in the moments of creation and continuation. And just as each of these photographs always exhibits the imprint of the finger on the shutter release as a localization and thus shifts the direction of vision, each song of the seven-piece combo also brings Timm's rambling (self-)observation to resonance: from momentary seeing-feeling to a sustaining tone. To where what is seen and felt coincides and transforms into sound images that constantly evoke new images. Be it through borrowings from French chanson or Latin-American influences, quotations or simply through a feeling that becomes tangible in its musical transmission. 

The result sounds as honest as it is porous - somewhere between "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the introspective soundtrack of future films, whose respective sets are created in the minds of the listeners.

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