Owls - Crumbling Light (2017)

“crumbling light” (Owls)
Rooted in Jazz, but unafraid to deviate from it. With open ears and a
sensitivity to sound, three Austrian musicians present themselves. The trio met in
Vienna and started a collaboration soon afterwards; Simon Oberleitner (piano),
David Ambrosch (double bass) and Konstantin Kräutler (drums) release their
debut album, crumbling light, in spring 2017. “In a way, the album can be
interpreted like an exhibition or collection of many small illustrations. The title
song Crumbling Light is just one of these pictures,” Oberleitner explains.
Together they founded the Jazz-piano trio “Owls” in autumn 2015 and recorded
their CD in November of the same year. The result justifies the timeline – the
simple pieces full of ambient depth (all written by Oberleitner himself) are played
with elegant sincerity and chamber music-like intimacy, and leave no doubt as to
the musicians’ aptitude. “It was of great importance to me that the music came
to the fore, rather than the arrangements. The compositions were only the
motifs, so to speak, which we painted. The way we went about them, which
tones we used – that should take centre stage. In David and Konstantin I found
the truest companions for such an enterprise.”