Still Magic
Picante

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Bernward Koch · Still Magic

01  My Heart / 2.48
02  Short Story / 2.37
03  Still Magic / 3.20
04  Summernight / 4.43
05  Cousin Beko / 4.14
06  Golden Sands / 3.25
07  Gentle Wings / 2.31
08  Pleuss The Painter / 3.23
09  Little Hannah / 2.36
10  A Chase In A Castle / 3.13
11 Lazy Afternoon / 2.54
12  Flair De France / 3.08
13  Dark Northsea / 3.38
14  Wonderful Glider / 3.24

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     "Still Magic" is an album by an artist, who has experienced a most astonishing rise within the New Instrumental Music scene during last couple of years.
      The classically trained artist composes pieces of outstanding formal maturity with an astonishing musical finesse. Bernward Koch hinself calls his compositions "songs without lyrics" - and ideed they are delicately crafted and clearly show their creators sense of form. Koch says: "I don't see any reason why pleasant and relaxing music shouldn't be rhythmically and harmonically interesting."
      Koch's arrangements are always marked by a tasteful balance of synthetic and natural sounds. The organic pulse of a real, flesh and blood drummer is essential for Koch's music, and the exquisite flute playing of his wife Christiane Bšhm has over the years become a trademark feature of his sound. On "Still Magic" the music of Bernward Koch more than ever unfolds an unobtrusive but seducitve charm - and once again many listeners on both sides of the Atlantic will soon be under its spell.