Michel Jonasz, born January 21, 1947 in Drancy, France, is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor. His compositions include: La boîte de jazz, Joueurs de blues and Les vacances au bord de la mer. Born from Hungarian immigrant parents, Michel Jonasz left school at the age of 15 to find his way in the arts. Painting, theatre and music interested him, but he began his artistic career as a pianist. After working with both Vigon and The Lemons, in 1966 he created the band King Set with his friend, the guitarist Alain Goldstein….

This CD features the drumming of ECM legend drummer Jon Christesen and the not so well known but very fine drummer Pal Thowsen playing 4 duos in not so lengthy tracks and then joined by Rypdal and Andersen on 4 other tracks. The duos are magnificent even if you never cared for drum solos. They are done with drums and percussion as main instruments but other sonorities are used making then more 'experimental' and edgy. The others with the other musicians are great as Rypdal is a bit hotter than he usually is.

Vienna is the fourth studio LP by the synthpop band Ultravox, first released on 11 July 1980. The album peaked at #3 in the UK charts and was the first Ultravox release to enter the UK top ten. It was certified Platinum in the United Kingdom in July 1981 for 300,000 copies sold. The album reached #22 in Germany, and #164 in the United States.