In times of infobesity and doomscrolling, maintaining a sense of wonder can be hard - especially for those who depend on it for their work. For all those involved in the arts, but also for anyone else who likes to be inspired by previously unimagined combinations of ideas, here is the perfect al-bum: a sung conversation between artists, a voyage through the sonic multiverse, a musical invita-tion to re-widen those eyes.

On ‘Holding on to Wonder’, contemporary jazz corresponds with 70s cop show soundtracks, saxo-phone clusters with operatic coloratura, the atonal with the very tonal, Bernstein with Post-Punk, Duke Ellington with Kraftwerk, irreverent buzzing with strict organisation. This will come as no surprise to those familiar with Moritz Sembritzki and his big band Magnetic Ghost Orchestra: their self-titled predecessor album from 2022 sounded similarly versatile. But this dialogue between styles and sound specifically suits the conversational concept of this album.