Review Rock music

Nonkeen

All Good?

Leiter • 2024

In 2007, Nils Frahm his childhood friends, Frederic Gmeiner and Sebastian Singwald. stumbled into a concert by instrument builder Hermann Laser. After the maestro got an electric shock by his own creation, the synthar, during the concert, Singwald supposedly asked him backstage: »All good?« 13 years filled of admiration later, the three friends are now dedicating an album to their late hero. »All good?« is »Laserjazz«. Supposedly, that’s what hepcats called Laser’s mix of electronic sounds and jazz rhythms in the 1970s. Those who haven’t read the promo blurb might be more inclined to say that nonkeen are making Ambient Jazz.

Today, soundscapes in which a silken piano is joining in with wistful synths are all too familiar. On »that love«, nonkeen are developing a melancholic melody from repetition and variation of a central motif almost classically. If you’re looking for novelty, you won’t find it here. »All good?« is much better suited to cradling yourself in memories of an warmth beyond recall during a summer night. Perhaps it’s not surprising nonkeen named their album after an anecdote. Those bound by friendship since childhood tend to tell of the past. Whether they’re true or not, is of minor importance. Sometimes stories are merely insurance against a melancholic truth. Nothing’s perfect, yet all is good.

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