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In the past 12 years, Peter Gall has made a name for himself as masterful meter and composer in various bands, for instance Subtone (including Florian Hoefner, Magnus Schriefl and Matthias Pichler) or with Roberto Di Gioia’s Web Web (including Tony Lakatos). Gall’s drumming can be heard on roughly 30 albums to date, among them his brother Chris’ trio Blume (with Schriefl, Wanja Slavin, Bernhard Meyer), the Rainer Böhm Quartet, Torsten Goods and Enik; furthermore he was engaged by luminaries like Kurt Rosenwinkel or Thomas Quasthoff, only to name a few. Now he presents his first own production, Paradox Dreambox. It doesn’t spring exuberant drumming on the listener, but rather allures with melodious lines and multilayered arrangements, nuanced band interactions and latent energy even in quieter passages. You wonder what the title of the album Paradox Dreambox is all about? Peter Gall says of himself, that he generally has a certain penchant for dreaming. He regards his compositions as a frame or “box”, in which one can dream. This frame that the whole band moves within is flexible though, and can even be sensually deconstructed at times. With his music Gall tells stories in a non-linear fashion, stories in which images and actions alternate in an unexpected, sometimes almost mysterious way. The name Paradox Dreambox, Peter gall says, describes a “vibe” in which incisive timbres of sound can arouse various associations and worlds of emotion interpretable on many levels. With his suggestive, stylistically open music the well-versed drummer definitively establishes himself also as an accomplished composer and smart bandleader in contemporary jazz.