The duo Sunking has moved away from his jazz recordings on I Don’t Like my Telephone, and also of those in the jazz fusion collective High Pulp, which they have been giving for years. Bobby Granfelt and Antoine Martel have been playing in bands since they were 15, here and now they fly through surreal electronic sound worlds (in the title track with Salami Rose Joe Louis), plunge into a fantastic prog breakbeat (“Clown Camp”) and build a “Castle in the Sky” with floating keyboards.
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In the “Velvet Room” (featuring deradoorian), Sunking dance on slightly shaky electronic elementary particles-and that is something like the R’n’B contribution of the album. This dozen tracks sounds as if the two musicians have freed themselves from everything they knew in the past that they played, supported by high-pulp member Victory Nguyen, in regions that they had not yet explored.
It goes on and higher and higher and in principle across the styles that interest the musicians. There are still jazz harmonies here, but they are no longer looking for classic jazz instruments. Anyone who is sometimes on this sound track-like journey with Sunking should not be surprised if they insert in an abstract low-end bass area, where the sound of intelligent machines is turned by the wolf. And behold and hear there: strangely beautiful new music is created in these moments.
This review was first published in the MusikExpress 08/2025.