Hely (Lucca Fries & Jonas Ruther) - Borderland

'Borderland' from the Swiss duo Hely, made up of pianist Lucca Fries and drummer Jonas Ruther, whose emotionally spiked compositions that sound like a series of intense, vivid, pictographic abstractions.

The dense waves of intensity are no obstacle to the Hely duo of pianist Lucca Fries and drummer Jonas Ruther laying down some seriously hypnotic music. It's the way that little melodic changes reveal themselves from within a dense fog of repetition that serve up one delightful moment after the other, and it's the kind of thing that will transfix a person's attention and almost make them oblivious to any dissonance or chaos in the surrounding area of a particular song. - Dave Summer, Bird is the Worm