Music of the Rhyality: Spring

Tracklist

1. Let Spring Come Into Your Heart
2. Hectic And Bustle
3. Veleggiare

Personnel & credits

• Michael GassmannTrumpet
• Ewald HügleSaxophone
• Thomas SilvestriPiano
• Patrick SommerBass
• Tony RenoldDrums

About this record

Michael

Trumpet

Genre

Jazz

Reception

No dedicated critical reviews of "Music of the Rhyality: Spring" (2020) were found in jazz press (AllMusic, All About Jazz, JazzTimes, Down Beat, Musica Jazz, jazz'n'more, etc.). Discogs returned HTTP 403 (bot-blocked). The release is a small, self-released Swiss EP/CD by the Thomas Silvestri Quintet and appears to have circulated mainly via the artist's own channels, YouTube, and streaming (Apple Music lists it under "Singles & EPs," 2020). What coverage exists is descriptive/catalog-level rather than evaluative. No press paraphrase with a quotable review line could be honestly sourced, so press is left empty. The associated multimedia project "Rhyality" (the immersive art hall at the Rhine Falls) received Swiss press attention, but that coverage concerns the installation, not this jazz album, and should not be conflated with reception of the recording.

Recognition

No award, festival selection, or academic notice was found for this specific album. Note (do not conflate): bandleader Thomas Silvestri received the "Georg Fischer-Kulturpreis der Stadt Schaffhausen 2024" — a general cultural prize for the pianist, not for this 2020 release. The underlying Rhyality immersive installation itself drew Swiss media/press interest as a regional cultural attraction, but that is recognition of the art hall, not of the jazz EP. None of the recognition found attaches to Michael Gassmann's trumpet contribution specifically.

Background

The album is the "Spring" installment of a four-seasons cycle tied to "Rhyality," billed as Europe's first immersive 360-degree art hall, which opened in 2020 in the canton of Schaffhausen (Neuhausen am Rheinfall) and virtually recreates the Rhine Falls across the four seasons from roughly two million timelapse images shot over about a year with four Nikon D850 cameras (sources: fotointern.ch, rhyality.ch, presseportal-schweiz.ch). The wider Rhyality artistic crew included writer/librettist Ursula Haas, composer Silvan Loher, composer-violinist Helena Winkelman, soprano Eva Lind, and Yello's Dieter Meier; Schaffhausen jazz pianist Thomas Silvestri contributed the jazz music. The album packages Silvestri's quintet music for the "Spring" chapter; sample/known titles include "Let Spring Come Into Your Heart," "Hectic And Bustle," and "Veleggiare." Quintet personnel (per silvestrimusic.ch / e-huegle.com search listings): Thomas Silvestri (piano), Michael Gassmann (trumpet), Ewald Huegle (saxophone), Dominique Girod (bass), Tony Renold (drums). Thomas Silvestri (b. 30 Nov 1964, Schaffhausen) is a jazz pianist/composer with a Zurich mathematics diploma who studied with Kenny Barron among others and has taught jazz piano at the Schaffhausen Music School since 1998. Verified via the artist's own sites (thomassilvestri.ch about/music pages, silvestrimusic.ch) and Apple Music; the YouTube playlist "Music of the Rhyality: Spring (Thomas Silvestri 5tet)" hosts the tracks but was behind a consent redirect.