Orange is a reference to Georges Perec. Just as in Perec’s literary works everyday events and common keepsakes stand for a collective memory, so the music moves in a way that speaks of a shared expanse: different modes are assembled like a puzzle, creating an overall picture of associative images. In Perec’s creations, key words and places become way stations in a labyrinth of memories.
"Je me souviens" is a key sentence around which the Parisian poet Georges Perec (1938-1982) has constructed a patchwork of narrative aphorisms. At the same time, he is open to interpretation, and so Perec’s work acts as a stimulus for Michael Riessler, as he brings his musical perceptions and awareness into play…

Recorded live in October 16, 1993 by Max Federhofer at Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany. Virtuoso saxophonist with his band moving effortlessly between jazz, improvisation, contemporary music and the avante-garde.

This album captures the wonderful meeting between the Polish Jazz trumpet virtuoso / composer Tomasz Stanko and two German Jazz players: reedman Michael Riessler and bassist Manfred Bründl. The trio performs a set of eight original compositions in a wonderful atmosphere of mutual respect, conversation and above all listening to each other. Stanko's "sharp" trumpet and Riessler's "soft" bass clarinet harmonize beautifully, with Bründl's bass providing the pulsating rhythmic support. These players are all completely open to every musical possibility, that the music they make is a magnificent expression of freedom, without being chaotic or messy. After all this is Free Jazz and Improvised Music, but with an openness towards melody and self-imposed restriction toward form. Stanko is in top form, with renewed energies, which characterize his early 1990s output, revitalized and as always exceptionally creative.