“Coming from a jazz background,” Berlin trumpeter Konstantin Döben reflects, “I had to work up the courage to write something simple and accessible.”

Working alongside keyboardist Johannes Arzberger in the pop band Clueso, he discovered a less cerebral, more instinctive alchemy. “That,” he realised, “was what I felt I could stand behind.”

Döben's intuitive approach to his new band Conic Rose extended to employing bassist Franziska Aller purely on her vibe (a punt which pays off). Completed by guitarist Bertram Burkert, the Berliners’ debut Heller Tag (or Brighter Day) centres on Döben's plaintive, breathy trumpet, the most traditionally jazzy thread through mellow, midtempo music with a hazy electronic aura and electric guitar not unacquainted, like much here, with OK Computer-era Radiohead.

Heller Tag is precisely layered and mixed, placing instruments starkly in an immersive soundscape. Aller's gently bubbling groove anchors ‘Learn To Be Cool’ as it kicks into a seething climax, and ‘Heller Tag’'s twitchy machine rhythm frames Döben in gorgeous balladeer mode, his midsummer brightness embodying the title. Glitchy surprises and quick, extra ideas complete each track's complexly coherent reality – on ‘Miranda’, for instance, with its rattling acoustic guitar, metallic 1980s synths and subterranean mulch of trumpet tracks, laying the ground for Döben's lushly sensual solo. Closer ‘Nie Wieder Knutschen’ (No More Kisses) then smoochily belies its title. Absorbing its influences into an amorphous atmosphere of its own, this could soundtrack a lazy, stimulating hour in Germany's beautifully bohemian capital.