Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has lived in a sound world of his own for many years. World Music usually means borrowing from disparate musical cultures and combining them. But Micus creates ...

At a time when, at least for First World residents, there seems no respite from the relentless, rapid pace of life, artists like Stephan Micus provide welcome clarity; proof that there are ...

Micus, who has a rare London concert this month, has just released his 20th album on ECM, which puts him up there with Keith Jarrett as one of the label’s most prolific artists. But Micus’s art is of ...

Since he has improvised, composed, researched and recorded almost entirely on his own for four decades, it's tempting to describe the multi-instrumentalist, singer and self-taught ethnomusicologist ...

Bavarian-born Stephan Micus is a unique figure in music. He’s a voyager in his compositions and in real life. He travels the world collecting musical instruments, learning to play them and then ...