ECHO-Prize Winner Max Frankl is only 32 and already catapulting his way into the top league of European jazz guitarists. "Fernweh" (= Wanderlust) is the fifth album he has produced as band leader. It is his most personal work yet, in which theGerman-born guitarist presents himself as a personally and musically mature artist. In the seven compositions, Max Frankl andhis fellow musicians oscillate effortlessly between jazz and rock, garnished with a pinch of bossa nova and a few psychedelicsounds. Distorted guitars, echo effects, tape-recorder-like delays and loops - all of these belong to Frankls new sound, withwhich he takes his listeners on a musical journey.