Barefoot Poetry

Back then in 1992, Michael was living off the grid in the countryside in Denmark, where he had built a home studio and together with percussionist Denis Wahlgreen, they began the work on what later became Barefoot Poetry. Through a common friend, Michael met up with Nils Kaufmanas for the first time. Michael, Nils and Denis starts redirecting and recomposing Barefoot Poetry in December 1993 in a little flat in Copenhagen.

“...and luck struck me once again meeting up with Nils”, Michael says; “Nils, being a fantastic piano player, a composer and a bandleader known from the jazz-fusion band Countdown, has this tremendous capability to take a chord and dismantle it into pieces, but not only that, Nils plays the drums and has this “feel” for groove, melody and basslines”.

This was just the guy Michael needed, with his experimental attitude and musical understanding. Nils is a real groove master to help Michael tell his stories.

This album you hold in your hand right now is all about this. Michael telling his stories and Nils placing the right chops for them together with talented musicians and singers giving their best.