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A solo piano introspective of one of the world's great jazz piano icons. An intimate, reduced song album, with darkly shimmering renditions of iconic pop songs and jazz compositions, classical influences and original pieces. A late work of a revolutionary musican. And a celebration of simplicity and the sheer delight in melody, love and joy. “Maybe when I’m ninety...?” When Siggi Loch first floated the idea that Joachim Kühn might like to make an album of ballads, the pianist’s response was typically jocular, even defiant. That initial resistance didn’t last long, however. Kühn, now in his mid-seventies, soon started to settle down at the fine Steinway in his home – he keeps it impeccably tuned – to switch on his DAT recorder, and set to work. “The advantage of being here at home in Ibiza is that I can simply make a recording when I want to. When the feeling comes, I just record,” Kühn reflects. Over a period of about fifteen months he sent a total of some forty individual tracks to Siggi Loch. He would often take pieces, re-think them, and end up sending off several different versions to Berlin. What emerges on this new solo piano album Touch the Light is a distillation from those individual takes, all made on the same piano and in the same space. It flows extremely well as a coherent and delightful programme.