Michael Riessler is one of the most versatile German composers and musicians, moving between jazz, new music and advanced folklore. He once performed with Siegfried Palm and Aloys Kontarsky as well as with the Cologne Saxophone Mafia and the Orchestre National de Jazz, was a member of the Grubenklangorchester, played in a trio with hurdy-gurdy player Valentin Clastrier and tambourine player Carlo Rizzo, worked with composers of New Music such as Mauricio Kagel, Vinko Globokar, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Helmut Lachenmann and Dieter Schnebel, composed theater, ballet and film music, produced radio plays, lectured at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and was also appointed Professor of Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in 2009. He has also been honored with the SWF Jazz Prize and the German Record Critics' Award ...

As a duo with his son, the young percussionist Lorenzo Riessler, who trained at the London College of Music and now lives in Berlin, who also triggers the sampled patterns of a phantom band with piano, cello and noises in this duo project, he has already set silent films to music and accompanied the French barrel organ virtuoso Pierre Charial. Now father and son, both highly virtuosic on their instruments, can be experienced with their current project inspired by the science fiction classic "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. (Press release)