Chasing Heisenberg Clemens Christian Poetzsch

• Clemens Christian Poetzsch (b. 1985): Helle Welten:
• 1Poetzsch: Helle Welten03:30
• Belvedere:
• 2Poetzsch: Belvedere02:57
• Zwei Funken:
• 3Poetzsch: Zwei Funken04:08
• Anmut:
• 4Poetzsch: Anmut03:12
• Stilles Sehnen:
• 5Poetzsch: Stilles Sehnen02:58
• Im Vertrauen:
• 6Poetzsch: Im Vertrauen03:29
• Fallen:
• 7Poetzsch: Fallen02:36
• Die Unschaerfe:
• 8Poetzsch: Die Unschaerfe04:34
• Flimmern:
• 9Poetzsch: Flimmern06:58
• Vom Suchen und Finden:
• 10Poetzsch: Vom Suchen und Finden04:28
• Diaphan:
• 11Poetzsch: Diaphan05:03
• Wandeln:
• 12Poetzsch: Wandeln03:42
• Flimmern (Single Edit):
• 13Poetzsch: Flimmern (Single Edit)04:44
• Total Runtime52:19

Info for Chasing Heisenberg

On his new album Chasing Heisenberg, Leipzig pianist Clemens Christian Poetzsch celebrates the beauty of chance and the tireless hunt for inspiration and creative impulses. In doing so, he reduces the sound spectrum of this album to the piano, convincing with catchy melodies between neoclassic and jazz.

As a child in Dresden, Germany, the German pianist Clemens Christian Poetzsch received his first piano lessons from his opera singer grandfather and was soon immersed in Bach, Schubert, and Clementi. But aged ten, a sheet music book of Frank Sinatra standards gifted to him by his father opened his ears to broader musical possibilities, and he was soon playing sing-along classics in the bar next door to his house. It was at that establishment, sitting at a piano which stood next to the kitchen, that Poetzsch first started improvising and messing around with song structures. Now, Poetzsch releases "Chasing Heisenberg", the third and final album of this trilogy, and a full embrace of the random sparks of beauty that inspire him.

The album title, "Chasing Heisenberg", is an ode to the German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg, who in 1927 uncovered and formulated the uncertainty principle. The principle would state the impossibility of knowing both the location and velocity of an electron simultaneously and would become a fundamental quantum physics formula. Beyond it's implications in the scientific realm, however, the uncertainty principle also touches on something far more existential - it mathematically proves that some things are simply beyond our reach - or unknowable. This incognito is, according to Poetzsch, at the heart of any artistic pursuit, not least his own. In "Chasing Heisenberg", it seems as if the composer has stopped trying to solve the unsolvable; instead, he's finally coming to terms with it's mystery. While some degree of randomness and improvisation can be observed in all of Poetzsch's work so far, Chasing Heisenberg is the composer's most fluid expression of the themes. He turns to music where words fail, giving sound to the ineffable and unexplainable nature of his inspiration.

Clemens Christian Poetzsch, piano

Clemens Christian Poetzsch
Deep inside, pianist Clemens Christian Poetzsch always knew what music meant to him: freedom. Freedom to improvise; freedom to create new worlds of sound; freedom to follow his instinct wherever it may lead him. His publications in collaboration with various musicians and his solo debut album (People & Places, 2016) already distinguished him as a special talent. On his new master debut, "Remember Tomorrow", he finally does justice to the role of the modern composer and gives free rein to the entire spectrum of his musical abilities - and with astonishing results.

During his childhood in Dresden, Poetzsch received his first piano lessons from his grandfather, an opera singer, and immediately immersed himself in the worlds of Bach, Schubert and Clementis. Then, at the age of ten, a birthday present from his brother: a music book with Frank Sinatra standards that opened his ears to more extensive musical possibilities. Poetzsch soon played in the bar of the neighbouring house, improvising and throwing song structures over and over again.

These were formative experiences that accompanied Poetzsch throughout his classical music education at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. During his piano and composition studies he spent his free time playing in jazz and free improvisation bands with friends and colleagues. He gave concerts, went on tour, discovered electronic music and absorbed all knowledge like a sponge. "I really like playing Bach and all the big ones," he says, "but from the beginning I just liked writing music myself and making my own songs. Playing in the orchestra or in big bands never really interested me".

And so what started as pure pleasure and the need to "find environments where I can surprise myself" became an ever-increasing influence on his music. "There never was a real plan," Poetzsch explains, "but I found that when I stepped away from all the sheet music and tried to find something for myself, it became my little language, and my voice and composition style really developed out of all of that."

This album contains no booklet.