All credit to the ACT label, it has reacted very quickly to the Covid-19 crisis with its Neue U Musik label, pointing out that culture and music is in unparalleled crisis since the way music is created, performed and conveyed has been forced to change. Yet the crisis is not one of creativity, it is one of finding new ways for new music to connect with audiences. It may be created differently, or in new ways, and Neue U Musik has emerged to bridge that gap.

On the label's first release, longtime ACT stalwart Kühn combines with sound engineer and electronica experimentalist Klaus Scheuermann in a series of wide ranging, spontaneously conceived interludes intended to remove the listener from their comfort zone “and counter crisis paralysis, especially now, in this moment of all-encompassing change”. As a mission statement this largely holds good, always assuming you feel you want your horizons broadened by the direction of travel Kühn and Scheuermann choose. Kühn has always been an impressive free improviser, his musings invariably follow a creative arc where oppositions within his narrative are set up and resolved, and this largely holds good here, a kind of free jazz for astral travellers.