The new solo project entitled The Rocket now sets itself apart due to an even greater degree of weightlessness and lightness, yet without ever drifting off into the trivial and banal. The traditional apportioning between left and right hand blurs: the left is equally entitled to carry the melody and vice versa. This pianist who splits his time living in Hamburg and southern Sweden uses the figure of a rocket exploring an unknown orbit to describe this levitating across new audiophonic worlds.

A musician who moves equally among categories such as film scoring, classical, jazz or pop, on this album Martin Tingvall plays seemingly simple sounding, grippingly beautiful melodies that at times conjure up associations with classical figures, other times reflect his origins stemming from Scandinavian folk music, and in the next moment gravitate closely to the veritable improvisational freedom we call jazz. He has long since left the commonplace shoeboxing of genres behind him to create his very own Tingvall world of sound comprised of different sources of inspiration.

Our world is governed by transformation at an incredibly fast speed. Digitalization is changing almost all areas of society, our daily lives. With this album I wanted to design an antithesis to that, an opposite pole of tranquility. At the same time Im exploring new musical worlds for myself, too.

Seven German jazz awards in gold, countless No. 1 albums on the jazz charts, and even high rankings on the pop charts are proof of this pianists popularity. All those with a yen for sounding out his minimalist side will have the opportunity in the course of an extended tour this fall.