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Dejan Terzic, one of the few truly European musicians, started Melanoia in 2012 and earned the German Grammy, Echo- Award with Melanoia's debut album as Best German Drummer in 2014. On the present album Terzic relies on the rapport of 7-string guitarist Ronny Graupe and alto saxophonist Christian Weidner. He also joins forces for the first time with totally wired keyboard wizard Jozef Dumoulin as trailblazer in the sonic wilderness. The entanglement of melancholy and paranoia, of dream and observing your own dreaming, becoming aware of yourself and being yourself, the shifting, crossfading states of mind between dream, daydream and waking state became a leading inspiration and thematic basis of Dejan Terzic's creative work in music. For Dejan Terzic a central key to deal with this existential experience in artful reflection and expression, is rhythm: rhythm to keep things together in dynamic, unifying ways when things start to drift, cross-fade or fall apart, when parts collide or entangled opposites threaten to suck each other's energies. Rhythm canalizes collisions' energies to rise from the ashes. Terzic developed this artful game as a distinct, passionate musical expression of reality. For Terzic reality has many competing and complementing layers, perspectives, faces, passages, wavelengths and sound prints. Musically he gives it shape and expression by turning the inside out and also by way of transcendental collision, all hold together and transported by his incisive odd meter rhythms, a strong, liberating force bringing forth concise and captivating leitmotifs. You can expect the unexpected throughout the whole album. It is however anchored in known sensations and experiences and based on a confining dramaturgy of moods, of transitions and resurrection, which keeps up tension and provides significance.

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Christian Weidner/as, Jozef Dumouilin/p-key, Ronny Graupe/tstrg and Dejan Terzic/drpperc get together for 8 songs mostly composed by the drummer. There is a repetitive pulse to the post bopping 'Trainride' and Weidner's alto is soft on the dreamy 'New Coalescence'. There's a mix of urgency and looseness on the slow to fast to slow 'Schnell' and the free 'B-Longing and Beyond' while 'Graupe gets funky on the busy 'Gravity'. Lots of side bars.

     —George Harris, jazzweekly.com (USA)