ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Nonkeen, All Good?
Leiter
rriving some eight years after their previous album, this latest effort from the German trio of Nils Frahm, Frederic Gmeiner, and Sebastian Singwald is – according to the accompanying spiel – created as a tribute to one Herbert Laszlo Laser, a Berlin watchmaker turned experimental jazz musician and creator of a revolutionary instrument called the Synthar. While it’s certainly an evocative story, and the band claims that “Laser remains largely unrecognised, a cult figure – at best”, the fact that Googlethe album’s tracks are titled and sequenced into the phrase, ‘, , , , , , , ’.
