These world music pieces are understood as a compositional dialogue between J.S. Bach and non-European music from America, Africa, the Orient, and the Balkans, as well as modern music. The richness of detail, transparency, and polyphonic structure of Bach's music are also significant for the works in this collection. Pianists should not expect jazzy variations. Instead, classical, (late) romantic, ragtime, jazz, samba, bossa nova, salsa, Balkan, minimal music, pop, gospel, atonal, African, and oriental sounds are intertwined with Bach's music, which is quoted and reinterpreted – also as an inspiration to play Bach's piano works as a 'counterpoint' to the pieces presented here.