By Robert Ham | Published October 2021
There’s an excitement that runs through Vincent Meissner’s debut Bewegtes Feld that speaks to the mind of a 20-year-old artist. He and his backing band, barely out of their teens, try to pack all of their ideas into this album.
That itchy quality is the source of joy and frustration. On “Stadt Land Fluss” and “Wurm Gott,” the musicians spring through a series of grooves and melodies that tumble like a gaggle of children rolling down a hill. It’s a marvel of precision, but hard to get a grasp on. Closing track “Menschen Tiere Sensationen” is even more slippery, a postmodern boogie-woogie. It’s later in the album that Meissner finds center with the lovely “Invalid Data” and “Schlaflied,” which feel more like tone poems than thought explosions. This is a good start. He has time and talent to find the right balance.
Bewegtes Feld: Eröffnung; Stadt Land Fluss; Traum Und Erwachen; Bewegtes Feld; Lindenort; Gravity; Zwischenspiel; Rot Gelb Grün; Wurm Gott; Trichter; Schlaflied; Untitled; Invalid Data; Widereröffnung; Menschen Tiere Sensationen. (45:31)
Personnel: Vincent Meissner, piano; Josef Zeimetz, bass; Henri Reichmann, drums.
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