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With song titles such as River Of Time, World Peace and Hope 2020, it is obvious that Niels Lan Doky’s new album is primarily a reflection on life and the state of the world. However, he also gets personal with a love driven piece like Sita’s Mood and offers an ironic and humorous commentary on political correctness and gastronomic pretentiousness with Greasy Sauce. On a slightly more serious note, he explores Western adaptation of Eastern spirituality with the song Pink Buddha and reflects on the controversial French best-selling author Michel Houellebecq with a composition bearing his last name. Finally - and one of the highlights of the album - is the sparkling and engaging call-to-action piece entitled Are You Coming With Me? With the highly unusual instrumentation of just piano, tambourine and bass drum. All in all, a highly enjoyable, inspiring, engaging and compelling abstract poetic musical depiction of the world at this present moment and a summary of the life on an artist who on his 1986 debut was hailed as “for the first time a young Jazz musician of real stature, someone who can make you feel that the future of the music is in good hands” and in 2019 was called “one of the most important pianists that European jazz has given us in the last 45 years.”