Stephan Micus: Traces in the Sand (ECM 2871)

Stephan MicusTraces in the Sand Stephan Micus hang, kalimba, shakuhachi, duduk, Indian crane flutes, sapeh, Bavarian zither, bodhran, genbri, dilruba, shō, chord zitherRecorded 2023-25 at MCM StudiosCover: Sara MicusAn ECM ProductionRelease date: November 13, 2026 At the edge of the sea, Stephan Micus lets the horizon undo the small enclosure of composition. Months spent on a few minutes of music require a concentration that his almost daily swims in Mallorca open outward again, returning the body to dimensions no studio can delineate. That exchange runs through Traces in the Sand, his 27th solo album for ECM, dedicated to the sea as the bearer of all music. Having lived on the island for more than three decades, the Bavarian-born musician approaches its expanse with the seclusion of someone whose teacher has never needed to speak. A dozen instruments gathered across the world enter this relationship, carrying the grain of their origins into unprecedented encounters. Among them,…

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