- Orchestral nu-jazz with an optimistic bent.
- With his latest EP, Leipzig-based tenor saxophonist and producer Damian Dalla Torre explores a state of being that he dubs "happy floating." With 19 other musicians under his direction, he uses orchestral nu jazz as a vehicle for optimism, meditation and self-examination. No track on the EP embodies this principle more definitively than "Bolzano," which starts off with a brooding, overcast ambience until some impassioned electric bass summons a radiance that reveals the silver linings Torre promised. Quirky electronics and gentle flutes evoke enough bliss to untie mental knots and half-convince you that things can—maybe even will—get better.