Pianist explores new ways with the album Etudes of Shapes and Forms.
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“Imagine being under a blue sky, drinking cold water and watching a David Lynch movie: that’s how the music sounds’, says Philipp Rüttgers about his new album Etudes of Shapes and Forms. For this the pianist has taken ideas from masterworks by innovative composers such as Ligeti, Schönberg and Debussy. With these methods, he portrays a whole range of emotions, from joy and excitement to relaxation.

Pianist and composer Philipp Rüttgers, who is of German origin, has been active in Dutch jazz for fifteen years already. For his new album, he formed an acoustic piano trio with two leading instrumentalists: Sun-Mi Hong on drums and Thomas Pol on double bass. Alongside classical works, the music is inspired by improvisong pianists such as Craig Taborn and Kris Davis, as well as `the visual art of Escher and of Philipp’s deceased father Ralph Klaus aka Tom Fleischhauer, whose work was used for the cover of Etudes of Shapes and Forms. The album will be released this spring by ZenneZ Records.