Christoph Irniger, a prodigious stylist with a warm sound, presents the third album with his band Pilgrim on Intakt Records. With "Crosswinds" the Saxophoneophonist who relishes adventure and surprise delivers a cultivated studio album. Multi-layered, subtle and melodically entangled, the eight pieces radiate a wondrous, atmospheric tranquility. A highly nuanced music with a magical sound.
Peter Margasak writes in the liner notes: „Crosswinds – this new, gorgeously considered, but luxuriantly open new record- ing by tenor Saxophoneophonist Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim – is palpably more relaxed on the surface than the quintet’s pre- vious albums, yet beneath that veneer of calm is intensely focused and rigorous interplay as well as a level of risk-taking. Irniger and his bandmates have developed a richly contemporary sound that melds ideas from some of the most harmonically advanced thinkers in the US with a distinctly European flavor heard most explicitly“.

Cover art: le_steffou
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Peter Margasak

Recorded April 15–18, 2018 and mixed June 21–22, 2018 by Gérard de Haro, assisted by Anaëlle Marsollier at Studio La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. Mastered in July 2018 at Pousaz Sound Lab by André Pousaz.