Tag: Heinrich Köbberling

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On their new album with a Norwegian horn player in tow the Julia Hülsmann Quartet always seem to be tumbling headlong, as the ten songs of Under the Surface tend to carry a propulsive momentum, even when there's something creeping underfoot or a real nip in the air, like on 'Bubbles' with its windchill as gusts buffet everything from...

  Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra - Promises The generation-spanning album by the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, the legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra carries a simple conceit, shifting endlessly around the spare framework of a seven-note melody played variously on piano, harpsichord, and synths. The ascending pattern provides the loosest of scaffolding for...

Confinement whets the appetite for wide open spaces, for propulsive movement and the vicarious thrill of collaboration. On the album On Our Own Clock, musicians from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Senegal find kindred spirits despite having their meetup plans skewered by the pandemic. Portico Quartet find their groove on the hang drum and saxophone, in an uptempo...