Yarbles

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These three young German improvisers - drummer and percussionist Beins, soprano and tenor saxophonist Martin Pfleiderer and double bassist Peter Niklas Wilson - are new names to this writer, but, despite their youth, already their collective CV is an impressive one, taking in, among others, Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Fred Frith, AMM's Keith Rowe, Barry Guy and Maggie Nichols. In such company they have learned their lessons well, or at least on the evidence of Yarbles. Each player can obviously play the ass out of his instrument, reaching beyond traditional playing techniques into a wider palette of instrumental colours. Their music, admittedly, is not anything startlingly new; they play the kind of introspective, considered group improv that the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's Karyobin - among others - kicked off over thirty years ago. But for all that, there's a great deal of pleasure to be had here, from Pfleiderer's highly-controlled high-register squealing to Beins' almost insectivorous scuttling. Expect to hear more of these musicians.