Puls by Mose

The group Mose from Feldkirch in Austria presents its second album, "puls". Their music is a mixture of jazz, ambient, pop and always emphasises space, quiet nuances and reduction to the essential. And the five musicians perfectly stage this remaining essential in the form of accomplished fragments, seductions, found objects with electronic sounds, muted trumpet, reverberated guitar and in some moments with relaxed vocal interludes. Rare pieces, thoughtfully arranged, relaxed, unspoiledly melodic, pared down to a degree that honours and ennobles the oiled vinyl trousers, the taillight columns, the dusty longing for the times in the early homeland, that smelly, fantastically old city. In a modesty that makes you want to take every note and everything behind it and say thank you: for the hour in the traffic jam, in the waning June light, and for much of what this music tells me, slowly and gently like, in truth, Vienna.