Inside or outside, there is something for everyone from the latest cache of albums released by Leo Records.
Pianist John Wolf Brennan goes solo as he mostly plays piano on this collection of twenty original pieces. His compositional skills and delivery is highly melodious and rich, stately on “Parto” and pretty on “Goofy’s Waltz” and 
“Do U See The Way?” as well as giving ambient moods when playing “acropiano” on “Isle of View.” Old World sounds emanate from his melodica and “pizzicatopiano” on
“Lost in Violin” while dancing with joy on “Rump-L-Rumba.” Fragrant impressions.
A Free Jazz Soundtrack? Well that’s the goal of the team of Arkady Shilkloper/horn-voc, 
Tscho Theissing/violin-voc, John Wolf Brennan/piano-melodica-voc, Daniele Patumi/b-voc and Georg Breinschmid/b-voc for these 13 studio pieces and 3 concert recordings. Of the latter, there are three compositions by Brennan, with dark moorings on bass and piano on ?Tupti-Kulai.” Some rich alphorn creates exotic tones on the sepia “Little Big Horn” and swingingly edgy “Nostalgia.” Gurgling brass sighs on “Alperiduo” and strings prance during “”Enticing” and “Tikkettitakkitakk” with some hip pulsations by Patumi on “A Bout De Souffle.” Loose, but fitting.
Paul May plays drums and “intimate metals,” Bernd Rest is on guitar, and Carolyn Hume doubles on piano and keyboards on six intuitive ieces. May rumbles with Hume on “Horizontal Blue,” the keys sparkle with spacouness for “Senry,” and guitar effects team with edgy piano and drums during “Surrnder.” Drums and things that go bump int the night rustle with May for “The Blacksmith and the Butcher” with some ambient atmospheres created with guitar wallpaper for “Kill The Lights.” Sounds and effects.
Enrico Fazio plays bass and supplies electronics as he leads a team ranging from 9-12 which includes strings, brass, reeds and percussion. There’s a Mahlerian sense of swing and ambition as Adalberto Ferrari’s clarinet leads the ensemble on “E=MC2” with Gianpiero Malfatto’s trombone slides through the strings on the gentle pulses of “Lilo Variations.” The brass and reeds get bright and high pitched reaching the stratosphere during “Overshoot Day” replete with experiments with mouthpieces, with some jazzy pulses prancing on”Lectio Magistralis.” Ambitious and yet unpretentious.
Ensemble 5 consists of Heinz Geisser/perc, Fridolin Blumer/b, Reto Staub/p and Robert Morgenthaler/tb on this loose and spontaneous collection of pieces. Splatting brass comprises “Blue-Shifted” while bopping tones make up the tentative “4+1”. Kinetic sounds and sharp musical angles ricochet during “No Bones About It” with a mix of reflection and abandon by Staub during “Trompe-l’oeil.” Blowing in the wind.