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Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio – Ride to Heaven (Releasedate: 17.04.2026)
Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio “Ride to Heaven”
Joachim Kühn says about the album, (in third-person): ‘’This is a great album; Andrés Coll is one of the top musicians of his generation’’.
When destiny calls, we must ride into it; that’s the spirit behind Andrés Coll’s new album’s title “Ride to Heaven”. From beginning to end, the album unfolds as a musical/spacial odyssey (structured as in a dramatic play), through universal human themes: courage, nature’s call, hope, farewells, and the spirit of adventure. Joined by Mateusz Smoczy?ski and Ramón López, the trio presents their hovering/above ground sound, ”The Avant-Groove”. Ride to Heaven is both a title and a message: an invitation to ride toward one’s destiny with joy and courage, to fearlessly embrace life as a whole.
Bio Andrés Coll:
Andrés Coll, born 2000 in Ibiza, is a multifaceted marimba and piano player who amalgamates sharp and broad musical sense, virtuoso playing skills and stoic commitment to art. From his childhood as a loyal member of a local folklore group, he became conscious of the deep and broad origins of his native music. Coll discreetly matured to an investigative player and composer dedicated to the cross-sum of primigenius music, folklore, Bach, Bartók, contemporary music, modern jazz and free improvisation. His open mind, sense of quality and no fuss attitude make him a frequent and most welcome partner of the established, yet often disclosed musical elite of like-minded top artists worldwide. Guided under the wing of legendary pianist Joachim Kühn, Coll quickly developed and matured at a very young age. Leading two key projects — Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio and Andrés Coll Odyssey — he explores the sounds of his homeland along bold, expressive improvisation, as well as his solo performance, portraying excellent virtuosity on the marimba, as a pianist and percussionist. A new voice in European Jazz, shaking up the scene with his youthful, unbridled joy of playing.
Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio:
Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio merges deep-rooted musical traditions with bold, genre-defying improvisation. This ensemble is not only a meeting of virtuoso players but also a profound friendship born from their shared connection to legendary pianist Joachim Kühn — a figure whose influence shaped their artistic paths. The trio features Coll on electric marimba, piano, and castanets; Mateusz Smoczy?ski, a renowned Polish violinist and composer bridging jazz and classical; and Ramón López, a Spanish drummer whose global career spans Indian tabla, avant-garde jazz, and collaborations with icons like Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and Rashied Ali. Their new sound, „Avant-Groove“, assembles the expressive freedom of the avant-garde with rhythmic foundations drawn from their homelands. From Spain to Poland, the trio channels centuries of tradition into music that is raw, expressive, and unmistakably modern — a new wave in European jazz.
Story on how Andrés met Joachim Kühn and everything revolutionized
In early 2020, I was still 19 years old and in the classical percussion world performing with spanish orchestras, but already for two years my vision had been to play my own music and get into the jazz world. I went to see a jazz festival in Ibiza, the “Jazz Point”, when the concert ended, I spotted in the audience a very fancy dressing old man, I said: This must be Joachim Kühn. I heard about him from local musicians, who told me about a legendary german jazz piano player in the island who recorded crazy musical pieces with car horns, saxophone, two drums,.. so that grabbed my attention, but I was still not fully aware about him. Just in the spot, I approached him and asked: Are you Joachim Kühn?, and he replied: Yes. Then I continued: Then I would like to play with you, record something together, do something,.. He gracefully accepted and gave me his number.
Two weeks after, the 2020 quarantine came; we couldn’t get out of home. After the summer, we catched up in September and he invited me to his home. I went up and saw the drumset and piano with microphones ready to record. I was very surprised, I had never played real jazz, or real improvised music, let alone with someone like Joachim! We sat on the instruments, and magic happened. We sounded strong and connected together, somehow I could already catch up with his way of playing without having ever done anything like that in my life. The following week he invited me to record a full set with the marimba and vibes, and that was even better. He said: Wow, I didn’t know you could play like this. From there, a friendship started to this day, getting together to listen, play, work together, talk about life,.. once a week, for five years already.
It’s because of him I could meet the musicians of my album “Ride to Heaven”, Mateusz Smoczynski and Ramón López, who came to Ibiza almost 4 years ago to play my first concerts as a bandleader. From there, we’ve developed our personal sound which we call the “Avant-Groove”.
About the Avant-Groove
The Avant-Groove is a term I coined to name our special music, which is specifically not what we would market or name as jazz, world music, avant-garde, etc. Coincidentally, we both three musicians since our childhoods, have grown up playing traditional music from our homelands, Mateusz from Poland and its own special polish folk music, Ramón from Alicante with flamenco
and eventually leading to indian music tabla (which he taught for years at the Paris Conservatoire) and me from Ibiza, an island treasuring a millenary mysterious dance and music, with my castanets; all of those, with a very heavy groovy foundation which is engraved in our blood. But my question was: what comes after the “groove”? Is there anything beyond/after that? Regarding the way we play, we like to groove hard but also break up the groove when necessary and get into space-like moments as we advocate to the avant-garde, however we are aware of the rule and the meaning of rhythm to the human body in a musical setting. Then coining the term was very easy: the “Avant-Groove”.
Andrés Coll · electric marimba, piano, castanets
Mateusz Smoczynski · violin, baritone violin
Ramón López · drums, tabla
Tourdates:
16./17.04.2026 HAMBURG, NDR (sold out)
06.06.2026 MÜNCHEN, Unterfahrt
07.06.2026 HILDEN, Jazztage
11.09.2026 DUISBURG, Intermezzo Jazz
07.01.2027 SINGEN, Jazzclub
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Andres_Coll
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrescoll_/
Other special information: This album, named ‘’Ride to Heaven’’ by Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio, is going with NASA, to the Moon, on their upcoming first lunar expedition in decades, the Artemis II. The name of the group and album is travelling on the spaceship and NASA issued a ‘’memmorabilia’’ passport for the album:
