When Luca Aaron, Kristinn Kristinsson and Fabian Willmann played together for the first time in a rehearsal room of the Academy of Music Basel in 2014, they immediately felt a strong bond. "It was almost like salvation from the daily college-routine, to find people who also wanted to play something different," Luca Aaron grins. The trio's creative drive feeds on various influences. Some of them have inspired all members and others are more personal. To name the most important: post-rock, minimalism à la Steve Reich, Nordic melancholy and Scandinavian folk, as well as unusual tonal colors, created by extended playing techniques and well applied electronics. In the poetic pieces on Still Light the aforementioned influences are sometimes subtly, sometimes more distinctly discernable. Listening to "Waterlines" you hear swelling guitar chords, lyrical bass clarinet and a romantic-epic aura reminiscent of Sigur Ròs, without celebrating their monumental emotionalism. Or the fascinating "Parallel Overpass", in which flowing patterns, complex interlocking and rhythmic displacement clearly reference Steve Reich. "Jumps" pursues a similar direction while "Murmuration" contrasts the sometimes warm, sometimes bright timbre of the clarinet and almost creepy electronic-abstract sounds. The general outlines of the pieces each come from one of the three musicians, but are then always developed together. Over the course of the many live shows, older pieces have been subjected to metamorphoses again and again and are now interpreted in various ways by the band. For example "Lumen", which originates from the trio's beginnings and now made it onto the album in a different version that harmonizes best with the more recent compositions. TRACKLISTING: 01. AND AFTER... (00512) 02. WATERLINES (00425) 03. ALIGHT (00247) 04. PARALLEL OVERPASS (00431) 05. JUMPS (00213) 06. MURMURATION (00320) 07. OCTOBER II (00533) 08. HELUXIA (00349) 09. LUMEN (00346) 10. CLIMBER(1985) (00518)