Excerpt: “twelve-tracks of ambient-dub set-pieces of understated yet still resplendent colour… an album of many moods, with dub, dub-techno, ambient, electro-pop, and funk all making appearances… A spirit of languor and ease pervades the album as a whole, rendering it a scenic yet still relaxing travelogue.”
Excerpt: “all about exploring space. Most of that space is silence… a minimal, ambient tour through a room; or maybe it is a garden. A forest? Whatever, the tracks here imply a specific, self-contained space… Jumpel adds a personal take on ambient sounds. Jo Durbeck’s music is welcoming and gentle, even as it challenges. Deuxieme Bureau explores the positive sounds that are always there, even in the silence, even in sadness.”
Excerpt: “[Jumpel] has not lost the intimacy that a minimalist attitude often affords… Jumpel’s delicate piano motifs mesh seamlessly with his fuzzed-out electronic hi-hits, pizzicato strings and tones of marimba. There are no fancy-pants-allegro piano solos in Jumpel’s repertoire, just gently executed tinkerings on the keyboard, but it’s the relative simplicity and sense of calm that you notice, especially on repeated listens.”
Drum Media
Excerpt (translated from the Italian): “In his second album, Jumpel continues along the path of refining his electronic-based compositions, offering an elegant hybrid between modulated environmental sounds, acoustic instruments and pronounced rhythms next to soft IDM tones”
