The story of this album began with a proposal like in one go: Siggi Loch from ACT Records proposed to the great pianist Joachim Kuhn to record an album of ballads, solo piano. He jokingly replied, "maybe at 90." But the resistance did not last long. Septuagenarian Kuhn sat down at the Steinway piano at home and began to record various themes, according to his senses. In a few months he collected about 40 titles, recomposed them and sent them to Berlin. The result, the album "Touch the Light", is a selection of these songs, all designed in the same place, on the same instrument. A coherent set of well-known pieces and original compositions, from Joe Zawin and Beethoven to Prince and Bob Marley, reduced to a celebration of simplicity, of the joy found in the song. The variety is remarkable, contrasting, and the approach is free, spacious, perfecting the art of suspended notes. The dynamics of touching the keys, from delicate to sonorous, always keeps us in a state of daydreaming. It's good that Joachim Kuhn didn't postpone this album full of love and joy until he was 90 years old.