Deutschlandfunk Kultur hailed the Keno Harriehausen Quartet’s 2019 album as “the jazz debut of the year” and “a minor masterpiece.” With the unusual instrumentation of tenor saxophone, cello, and double bass alongside Harriehausen’s piano, the group consists of two Germans, a Latvian and a Dutch, and describes itself as “founded in the Netherlands, shaped in Denmark and Norway, and at home in Germany.” As Wolf Kampmann observed: “The music is reminiscent of Shostakovich, Reger and Ravel, but also of American Free Jazz and Scandinavian searching for tonal colours. Yet, all these references lose themselves in the decisiveness of the performance and in the compelling responsibility to every single note.”Andris Meinig (db), Maya Fridman (clo), Karlis Auzins (sax), Keno Harriehausen (p)