Stephan Micus' last album, Life (ECM, 2004), represented the multi-instrumentalist's most ambitious vocal album to date, layering as many as 14 voices at once. On the Wing represents a complete ...

At a time when, at least for First World residents, there seems no respite from the relentless, rapid pace of life, artists like Stephan Micus provide welcome clarity; proof that there are ...

Micus, who has a rare London concert this month, has just released his 20th album on ECM, which puts him up there with Keith Jarrett as one of the label’s most prolific artists. But Micus’s art is of ...

Since he has improvised, composed, researched and recorded almost entirely on his own for four decades, it's tempting to describe the multi-instrumentalist, singer and self-taught ethnomusicologist ...

Bavarian-born Stephan Micus is a unique figure in music. He’s a voyager in his compositions and in real life. He travels the world collecting musical instruments, learning to play them and then ...