The Gamble

The GambleWhat started as a playground radio show in a suburb of Hamburg, soon developed into a long lasting friendship, and eventually led to the foundation of Nonkeen The tracks for Nonkeens debut album The Gamble were recorded between 2007 and 2015, after the band members Frederic Gmeiner, Nils Frahm and Sepp Singwald began to meet again for long experimental sessions, now well into their twenties, and living in Berlin. They listened to their childhood

and I couldn’t play the material live” he remembers

soon developed into a long-lasting friendship

hunched over his piano

’ written in the melancholic Hypodorian mode

yet never quite the same

‘Oddments of the Gamble’ is a continuation of the unique

In her twenties

He compares it to animals scuttling through a forest at sunrise

“Watching him at work

where Vos also has his studio

with its tranquillity given an additional glimmer and shimmer that can at times make it sound as much like a timeless Eno-esque vignette (“Offering”) as it does a lost cut from the Cocteau Twins’ Victorialand (“What Dreams Are Made Of”) or even something by New York trio SUSS (“Below The Surface”)

returning to his roots as a classically trained guitarist and enlarging on the style of earlier records – most notably 2006’s 'Summer Kling' – by arranging these compositions for what he calls instrumental ‘chamber pop’ or