No Longer A Secret,

It's no longer a secret that saxophonist Lutz Häfner is one of the greatest in his field. World-class level, which cannot be explained with technical skills alone. This artist knows how to take his audience far away into undiscovered soundscapes and to challenge them with unusual interpretations. At the same time, he enchants with a harmonious, deep poetry and distinctive chasing. In 2013 he was rightly awarded ECHO Jazz as Best Instrumentalist National Saxophones for his album Deep, which he recorded in a duo with Rainer Böhm.

The 16th-century composer, Cypriana Bazylik, was born in Sieradz, an important commercial and cultural center at that time. He composed only for a short period of his life, when he was employed in the court band of Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł in Vilnius. Several of his songs and several psalms have survived and are included on this CD. The music, masterfully presented by the Ensemble Jericho vocal group, is largely an original adaptation of the musicologist and organist Bartosz Izbicki - voices, new harmonies, and sometimes changed rhythmic formulas have been added.