White night

"Each instrument evokes various landscapes, and Micus mixes them together like a rich curry ... The spaciousness, pastoral patience and use of atmosphere never sounds cliché'd or derived; it all comes from the heart of a pilgrim".

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"Tyskeren Stephan Micus (...) er aktuel med sit 23. album på [ECM] ... Han spiller selv på alle instrumenterne, der er en veritabel samling af instrumenter fra hele verden, han skriver og producerer også selv musikken. Han laver helt bogstaveligt verdensmusik. Der er både inspiration fra Østen, Arabien, Afrika og sikkert også flere andre steder".

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"Micus makes this music with an assemblage of instruments from disparate cultures such as the African "thumb piano" known variously as the kalimba, mbira, etc.; the Armenian woodwind called the duduk, tibetan cymbals, cane whistles, the hourglass-shaped dondon, a Ghanan "talking drum"; and the sinding, a West African harp with cotton strings. Where no existing instrument could make the sounds he heard, he made or commissioned them, including a 14-string guitar, a bronze-keyed kalimba, and lyrics to sing in his own invented language. All that of course would be meaningless if it didn't sound fantastic. But it does ... Far from the sadly amorphous noodling of so much "New Age" music, this is inspired and inspirational music for the open-hearted, performed by a true master with skill and knowledge to back his vision".