Christoph Irniger Pilgrim at ShapeShifter Lab

“With Crosswinds, Christoph Irniger’s quartet Pilgrim offers a scintillating trip into a musical subconscious – a dream state where one opens doors only to find more doors – a spiral staircase where the top is always just beyond reach.” — All About Jazz

Christoph Irniger, a prodigious stylist with a warm sound, presents Crosswinds, the third album with his band Pilgrim on Intakt Records. With Crosswinds the saxophonist shows his relish for adventure, delivering a rich, multi-layered album with eight pieces that radiate a wondrous, atmospheric tranquility.

Peter Margasak, longtime jazz critic at the Chicago Reader, writes in the liner notes:...

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“With Crosswinds, Christoph Irniger’s quartet Pilgrim offers a scintillating trip into a musical subconscious – a dream state where one opens doors only to find more doors – a spiral staircase where the top is always just beyond reach.” — All About Jazz

Christoph Irniger, a prodigious stylist with a warm sound, presents Crosswinds, the third album with his band Pilgrim on Intakt Records. With Crosswinds the saxophonist shows his relish for adventure, delivering a rich, multi-layered album with eight pieces that radiate a wondrous, atmospheric tranquility.

Peter Margasak, longtime jazz critic at the Chicago Reader, writes in the liner notes:

"Crosswinds – this new, gorgeously considered, but luxuriantly open new recording by tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim – is palpably more relaxed on the surface than the quintet’s previous albums, yet beneath that veneer of calm is intensely focused and rigorous interplay as well as a level of risk-taking. Irniger and his bandmates have developed a richly contemporary sound that melds ideas from some of the most harmonically advanced thinkers in the US with a distinctly European flavor heard most explicitly.“

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