• 01. Das Wörterbuch 04:51
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 02. Play Back to Zero 01:56
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 03. Wenn es dunkel wird 02:52
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 04. Space Craft: I. Realisation 02:39
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 05. Space Craft: II. Transformation 03:59
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 06. Space Craft: III. Meditation 02:47
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 07. Nederlands Lied 04:10
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 08. Blown Away 05:56
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 09. Like Someone in Love 02:43
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Jimmy van Heusen, Johnny Burke
Published by Music Sales Corp.
• 10. Engel über Berlin 02:55
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 11. My Funny Valentine 03:19
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Published by Chappell & Co, Inc.
• 12. Anxieties of the Past 04:57
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam
• 13. I Arrived, But Where Are You? 03:02
Performed by Maria Neckam, Mika Pohjola
Music by Maria Neckam
Published by Maria Neckam

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• Maria Neckam - voice
• Mika Pohjola - piano

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Das Wörterbuch, The Dictionary, is a spontaneous thesaurus in improvised expression. The set includes some of Neckam's original compositions and on-the-spot interpretations of American Songbook classics, My Funny Valentine and Like Someone in Love. As a whole, Das Wörterbuch is an experience for careful listeners, who like to think outside the box. Das Wörterbuch is a collaboration between Austrian expatriate singer-composer Maria Neckam and acclaimed Finnish pianist Mika Pohjola. Maria Neckam has never played it safe, especially with her writing and her vocal interpretations, but with Das Wörterbuch this New York-based artist is really flying without a net. She has found the perfect improvisational partner in Pohjola, whose earlier piano-vocalist duo outings included Sophie Duner, Lina Nyberg and Jill Walsh. With fearless abandon, Neckam and Pohjola roam freely through a series of spontaneous, contemplative modal sketches, occasionally coloring completely outside the lines. Neckam''s composition, Wenn es dunkel wird (roughly translated, When it gets dark) is compelling, taking the listener across a mind-field of introspective rumination. With a bit more structure than some of the other tracks on this release, it is a reasonable jumping-off point for those who are just sticking their big toes into the chilly waters of the avant-garde; to an open mind already swimming in its currents, the Weillian imagery of this piece opens into a dreamy, existential garden shrouded in the encroaching fog of twilight.

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