Andreas Hinterseher's *Stay Away And Play* arrived in 2021 as a graceful response to an uncertain moment, a pianist's meditation on distance, memory, and the places we carry within us. The album unfolds across twelve pieces that drift between continents—Buenos Aires, the Mediterranean, Anatolia—each one a small story told through Hinterseher's lyrical touch and the interplay of his ensemble. There's a wistful quality to these compositions, a sense of wandering rather than arrival, whether he's interpreting traditional material or original explorations. The music moves between jazz tradition and more impressionistic textures, never settling into predictability. Recorded during a time when travel and gathering felt like luxuries, *Stay Away And Play* works as both intimate piano trio work and something more broadly contemplative—music that acknowledges loss while insisting on connection through melody and conversational interplay.