Michael Wollney Trio - The best album of 2025 (Guardian)

"The brilliant German pianist/composer Michael Wollny’s 10-year-old group with David Bowie Blackstar bassist Tim Lefebvre, and genre-busting drummer Eric Schaefer, goes from strength to strength. Living Ghosts is a live recording featuring the group’s favoured eschewal of setlists or arrangements, letting go to what the pianist has called “seances where the ghosts of the trio’s songbook visit us at their will”. Alban Berg and Paul Hindemith miniatures turn into rock-powered stomps or bass-walking bebop, swing turns into raw improv, Nick Cave’s Hand of God becomes Guillaume de Machaut’s Lasse! But governing it all is what types of music have in common, not what divides them."