This is a really good story.
It's a really good story. This was the conclusion reached by the international media when Arne Jansen and Stephan Braun released their first album together. On "Going Home", Jansen, "one of the best and most versatile German guitarists" according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Braun, his congenial partner on cello and double bass, interpreted pieces by the legendary rock band Dire Straits in a surprisingly different way. "For their new recording, the two busy musicians, who have performed alongside Melody Gardot, Nils Landgren, Till Brönner, Nils Wülker, Anders Jormin and the Orchestra Baobab, among others, set themselves the guiding principle: We tell our own stories.
With two exceptions, "Short Stories" consists of pieces that were written especially for the recording. The distribution of roles between Jansen and Braun is also very different to that on the first album. While the guitarist was something of a singer on six strings and responsible for the melodies on the Dire Straits homage, it is now also Braun who provides the themes on cello and bass or solos virtuosically - for example in the incredibly moving "The Way of Truth" or the dynamic "96 Minutes".
