Phil Struck’s “homecoming” album, inspired by his experience returning to his hometown of Kiel—a port city on the Baltic Sea—after living abroad for many years. An intensely personal inner landscape where acoustic tones, subtle electronic sounds, field recordings, and a Fourth World-inspired organic quality blend together. Echoing titles like “Ufer” and “Durch den Dunst”—which evoke scenes of Kiel—the music abstracts the physical sensations and memories of life there. Highly recommended for ambient jazz fans, this is an album to savor over time. It is the latest release from the German label *Cosima Pitz*, which started as a small print shop, expanded into a cassette label featuring artists like Ayami Suzuki in its catalog, and began releasing vinyl last year. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)