reviews
‘CD ‘Miner’s Pick’
(FMR records 2014)
...”In any case, I love this album because it does what good music should be doing : it will enchant you, even if you are deep underground, digging for gold. Keep digging.”... www.freejazzblog.org by Stef
...”Where some bassists get a good arco sound and stick with it (think Paul Chambers’ reliably leathery tone), Niggenkemper gets a rainbow of bowed timbres: soft murmurs, bee-swarms, medieval drones, leviathan groans. Strategically, he’s textural and linear by turns, an independent voice unbeholden to bass custom.”... Kevin Whitehead in www.pointofdeparture.org
...”For Miner’s Pick, these European virtuosos present ten composed-yet-experimental-leaning sketches, running the gamut from serene introspections to intense fits of piercing dissonance.
With album art by Mike Joyce a sublime complement to the trance-inducing ambience of Miner’s Pick, the tandem of Heberer and Niggenkemper speak an ecstatic language of their own.”... by Brad Cohan in The New York City Jazz Record