‘NEW VISIONS FOR A NEW WORLD’
// AUGUST, 2025
From 2020 to 2024, pianist Niels Lan Doky worked on what would become his most ambitious and personal album to date, New Visions For A New World. The project brought together an extraordinary cast of international musicians to explore fresh compositions and reimagine timeless works through a lens that merges lyrical beauty, improvisational freedom, and socio-political reflection. Anchored by Lan Doky’s original pieces such as The Road Ahead, Piketty, and Geopolitics, alongside inspired takes on classics like Old Folks, the music speaks equally to the heart and the intellect, embodying both a deeply human narrative and a global perspective.
Recorded over several years in Paris, Copenhagen, and New York, the album captures the evolution of ideas shaped by turbulent times—pandemics, political divides, economic shifts, and cultural transformations. Yet the sound is neither heavy nor academic; instead it is melodic, hopeful, and imbued with Lan Doky’s signature sense of lyricism and forward-looking creativity. New Visions For A New World is both a bold artistic statement and a reminder of jazz’s enduring ability to reinvent itself while addressing the challenges of the present.
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