July 9, 2022
You can’t classify his music into any genre. The album with piano music, released in spring 2022, contains ten pieces from a collection of songs that the extremely curious keyboardist from Cologne, Kai Liekenbröcker, calls “composed improvisation”.
The longer you listen to the tricks, the more you like them. It’s a well-known wisdom that imaginative improvisation – straight from the heart without a formal concept – only belongs to a better musician. Liekenbröcker is also well received with his personal style and timbre.
He neither swims towards nirvana in the sedate, tranquil “neo-classic river”, nor does he produce his music via an app. Rather, he relies on the self-sufficient character of music, because music ultimately promotes self-sufficient feelings at best. The motivic structure is also important to him for his music, sometimes he consciously chooses a self-imposed limitation as a pianist in order not to vary motives too much.
He was trained in Hanover, worked in the Fury album production and then as a sound engineer. The year he was born, 1964, would say more regarding his romantic inclinations, but the practiced listener in particular is happy to accept the dimensions of the ten “piano art crowns”, “enriched with aromas and spices that keep body and soul together”. The new piano album will only be distributed digitally, which is actually a shame for its distribution. So the creation of a booklet was not necessary.