2henning — Puzzled Bird

Imagine a Rubik’s Cube displaying a dancing, ever-morphing array of cloud formations; with all the pieces of the cube in perpetual, percussive motion. Although, the images on display are truly incidental and ephemeral by design, they seem to reassert a deeper, formal logic – regardless of their individual combinations. Plus, they leave a lot of space for the theatre of imagination; they’re also stunning and the experience is a lot of fun. In a cubic nutshell, this is what it’s like to hear “Puzzled Bird”, the sophomore studio album from Swiss, nomadic Avant-Pop duo 2henning, for the very first time.

This duo definitely mastered a unique ability to surprise the listener, to take logical, yet unexpected turns compositionally. This, as well as their unrelenting commitment to working with original, non-preset sound objects, are definitive qualities of the project. And there is nothing contrived about any of this, either. Every single one of the songs is a product of a free-form improv session or a live show. Each, is also a natural outcome of an intense dialogue between two highly opinionated, versatile multi-instrumentalists – who just happen to love to be surprised, challenged musically and have a lot of fun together exploring the "deep-end."