SingleRelease date:
11.03.2022
Pascal Schumacher, Echo Collective
Luna
The title track, Luna, perfectly encapsulates the subtle synergy at the heart of the album. Over a bed of swelling and receding strings provided by Echo Collective, the vibraphone doesn’t take center stage but instead delicately punctuates the piece—like starlight flickering in and out of view. It’s a masterclass in restraint and balance: glockenspiel, crotales, marimba, and synthesizers all weave together with the string textures, creating an intricate soundscape that is both meditative and quietly nostalgic. On Luna, the musicians don’t compete but coexist, allowing each voice to emerge and dissolve naturally. The result is a deeply introspective and atmospheric experience—an invitation to pause, reflect, and drift.
Pascal Schumacher
He played with many of exciting musicians such Francesco Tristano, Bachar Mar-Khalifé, Jef Neve, Kenny Barron & Magic Malik, wrote music for theater and film and leaded a jazz quartet. Today he mixes emotional classical music with minimal electronic sounds, although Schumacher himself considers each classification obsolete. To him, music is a single, limitless playground.
2018 also marked a new beginning for Pascal Schumacher, who upon invitation to play at Jazz & The City Festival In Salzburg, started to develop his own solo material. The experience opened up an entirely new path for the composer culminating in his debut solo album, SOL. SOL captures Schumacher’s newfound passion for solitude in all its magnetism all the while remaining true to the main characteristic of his relationship with the vibraphone; intimacy. SOL has ben released via Neue Meister in June 2020.
Pascal is a Yamaha Artist and a Professor for Jazz and Classical Percussion at the Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg. - He is the Artistic Director of the innovative 'Reset' Music Festival at Abbaye Neimenster and an Ambassador for SOS Children's Villages International - Luxembourg.More releases
