“If the music stops, they’ll eat him up” invokes through its nine tracks a sense of mysterious and highly visual storytelling.

As is expected of a composer who has worked with cinema extensively, the music unfolds much like a motion picture, conjuring images that are rich and textured.

It’s as if Baden was painting a wide and vast musical room where the listener is invited to explore its every nook and cranny, from soft percussive footsteps in the background, to the whispering rumbles of synthesisers just in front or the frail conversation of strings happening to the side.

There’s an overwhelming sense of openness and atmosphere to every sound, with a churchy echo delineating the space that surrounds them.

“I want to put myself in a position where my ‘ears are wide open’ to the quirks, random incidents and happy accidents rather than being totally focused on the composition in a conventional sense,” says Baden, “to me, this opens a door to a much larger canvas, so to speak.”

There’s an intentional vagueness to Baden’s compositions that resembles films with open-ends.

‘Crooked Spoke’, a journey which unfolds nonlinearly through the clarinet, piano and strings captures this enigmatic feeling, each instrument tells a part of the same story, slightly borrowing from jazz the idea of an ongoing yet inconclusive dialogue.

Tracklisting:
1. All the Rage
2. Crooked Spoke
3. If the Music Stops
4. In the Mire
5. Simtom
6. Sip of Zarniqa
7. They’ll Eat Him Up
8. After Curtain Call (They’ll Eat Us All)