" data-original-title="" title="">Mark Lotz may be attributed to his personal history. He grew up in Thailand, Germany, and Uganda, while studying jazz, contemporary music, and Indian bansuri flute playing in Amsterdam, New York, and Los Angeles. This globe-trotting biography is reflected in his flute solo performances of contemporary composed music and associative improvisations, all recorded in one go with no overdubs or sound processing.

Lotz is a musician who sees and plays the flute beyond its conventional instrumental characteristics. After all, the flute, any kind of flute, made of metal, wood, bamboo or PVC, is a pipe that transforms breaths and air through lip plates, blow holes, and keys. The inventive approach of Lotz with his wide array of extended techniques—whisper tones, multiphonics, tongue slaps and stops, circular breathing, voice, and lip pizzicato harmonics—turn these concise pieces into highly vivid, cinematic pieces.

Lotz meditates on distinct world music, jazz, contemporary music schools, and genres. The spare, Bedouin- tinged tones and overtones of "A? ?a?r��' ash Sharq��yah (Eastern Desert)" and later "Inside," using the bass flute, sound as paying tribute to flautist