Christoph Irniger – Pilgrim

Christoph Irniger returns to Moods with the third album of his band, Pilgrim. “Crosswinds” appeared on the Swiss label Intakt – a highly subtle music with a magical sound. The American journalist Peter Margasak wrote about this in the liner notes: “The new, totally thought-through, yet generously open recording by tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger’s band, Pilgrim, is relaxed on the surface, yet under this veneer of calm there lays an intensively focused and rigorous interplay, together with risk readiness. Irniger and his band colleagues have developed a generous contemporary sound which combines ideas in terms of harmony of some of the most prominent American mentors with a decidedly European flair”.