Retiro E Ritmo

This album was inspired by my trip to Bahia, to the coastal rainforest of Brazil, the Mata Atlantica, an ecoregion even richer in species than the Amazon, but of which more than 90% is destroyed, and the rest is highly fragmented. The beauty and lushness of this nature, it's colors and it's sounds, it's wildness, but also it's vulnerability, have never left me since. It's diversity and complexity have inspired us to create this musical homage. From contributions of many wonderful musicians my friend Markus Reuter has created this manifold collage, a sonic biotope, which tries to do justice to the magic of this region. Features Markus Reuter (Stick Men) and Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson)