Christian Wolfarth percussion

"Three musicians and a drummer walk into a bar...if you're breaking into a smile, this superb disc should wipe it away. It's the self-titled first release of all-percussion Euro-supergroup Glück - Burkhard Beins, Enrico Malatesta, Michael Vorfeld, Christian Wolfarth, Ingar Zach - and it's intensly musical. All-percussion groups are rare in Western music - Les Percussion De Strasbourg and Max Roach's M'Boom come to mind, but neither covers the ground of Glück. The name means both joy and happiness, or good luck and good fortune, and the group's organically evolving, almost orchestral range covers the full sonic spectrum. The opening title track by Wolfarth focuses on bowed cymbals, interrupted by dramatic timpani beats. Bein's "Adapt/Oppose 14/1-a" is brief and haunting. Ingar Zach's Floaters", the most drone-like of the pieces, is perhaps the most remarkable - twice it breaks down, before resuming its dark, doom-laden course." 

Andy Hamilton (The Wire 378, August 2015)