Uri Gincel Trio - Love Through the Stained Glass (2022) [Hi-Res]

Originally from Tel Aviv, pianist Uri Gincel moved to Berlin in 2009 and quickly grew to become one of the most important pianists in the Berlin jazz scene. There he met bassist Paul Kleber and drummer Tobias Backhaus. Starting from jazz standards and classical piano trio sound, the three set out in search of new forms, sounds and colors. With mutual trust, great joy in playing, always willing to take risks, but never losing focus on the common language, the Uri Gincel Trio creates an intense, multifaceted world of musical improvisation, sound and tradition.

Uri says of the trio's second album, "We tend to look at our past loves through the filter of our memory, we reshape them and invent a romantic image, an almost perfect ideal that shows how much beauty our soul is capable of. When we look at the same love through music, we can go to a safe haven and enclose that feeling in a frame so that other people can look at it and create their own realm out of it.

Music sincerely preserves these emotions and keeps the intensity of the moment at its highest. Along with the beauty and happiness, it also preserves the pain and longing in a timeless capsule, giving us the freedom to heal, reflect and grow, because without true honesty with ourselves, we will always remain one step away from what can truly be called "love"; love that is an ever-evolving force, that has the courage to let go, that inspires your soul to expand in ways you dare not even imagine. Love for one person that, proves love for all. Love that opens all the doors in our heart and allows someone else to do with it what they will. Love that is not a way out of loneliness, but rather an art that you can't live without.

This album is a portrait of my attempt to walk along the corridor of my past loves in different periods: from hope and infatuation, moments of depression and deep regret, to beautiful realizations of truth after soul searching and the fragrance of love that remains in me, in music."

Uri Gincel, piano
Andreas Lang, double bass
Moritz Baumgärtner, drums

Recorded at Blackbird studio Berlin
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Sebastian Ohmert