"Stunning and devastating from beginning to end." -BRAINWASHED
"This album reminds me of when my bonsai tree was dying... Be Still ebbs and flows between temporary reconciliations and uneasy, unflinching, liquid tension... Powerfully introspective without a hint of melodrama, this is moving, masterful, modern music..." -RE:UP Magazine
"Klumpes proves to have a distinct voice in the genre of modern electro-acoustic piano music, and when he gets it right you don’t forget it easily." -BOOMKAT
"The piano is surrounded by sweeping and swooping rushes of metallic scything, needling stutters and trebly sustains. The title track plays with reverberant space, exaggerating the piano's interior presence as Klumpes sets out his cyclic patterns. The suspended clusters of the extended "Unrest" make a harmonious ascendance; the brief "Why" comes as an immediate shock, with its ratcheting spurts, all internal resonance, with little left of the actual notes. The cumulative swells of "Give In" recall Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's collaborations; and the concluding "Passing Pain" once again returns to those familiar arpeggio accumulations, nurturing an enjoyable sense of flotation." MARTIN LONGLEY - THE WIRE
"...stirring compositions, vibrant and affecting a multitude of different listener emotions... Be Still balances the deepest depths of darkened corners and all the horrors that may or may not lie within them with the most stunning sunlight-through-clouds flashes of uplifting mood music heard in a long while. Its true beauty lies in the fact that such unique instrumental music is sure to be interpreted wholly differently from individual to individual... Although only one instrument, albeit a flexible one, is used to create Be Still, it’s an album of amazing depth and possesses a lot of longevity..." MIKE DIVER - DROWNED IN SOUND
"Beneath the beauty lies an unnerving underside" - CHIP MIDNIGHT, new-noise.net
"...a doozy...Be Still is too challenging to be chill-out, but its very angular expressiveness is nevertheless rewarding." JOCELYN CLARKE - THE IRISH TIMES
My debut album "Be Still" was released in October 2006 on The Leaf Label. I was also the pianist in Triosk.
I am currently involved in other live and recording projects to be revelad in 2008. I am also open to offers for creative collaboration.
