Kryshe is the work of Berlin-based artist Christian Grothe. His website states that he "creates music by experimenting with tape, self made sampler instruments, circuit bending and adding soft and airy notes from is trumpet playing." The label describes this disc as "an album of texture and colour. Singing trumpet lines and vocals float along delicate, sparkling streams of experimental sound. Melodies emerge over soundscapes full of plucked strings and tines, white noise and field recordings." Sounds good, so let's get into the music.

The disc begins with "Continuum," a peaceful trumpet and piano number. The piano is almost hypnotic as it swirls around you over a bed of lush pads to provide a base for the track. The trumpet comes in slowly and deliberately. As the notes hold out it becomes more and more staticy as the is it the microphone is too close to the trumpet. This provides an interesting bit of noise and texture to the piece. "Epilog" is a another peaceful piano number that has a kind of soundtrack feel to it. "Fragile" is an interesting mix of voice, droning synth, and what sounds like a broken music box. "Pulse" is more drones and a bit of saxophone; there's a pulsing rhythm throughout that almost sounds like a heartbeat (which is fitting for the title). "Shouting" has just enough distortion and processing of the trumpet and saxophone to make it seem like it's falling apart throughout the bed of drone buried underneath. "Fragile II" brings back the plinking broken music box back with heavy drone this time without voice. "Nocturnal" lays down some heavy dissonant drone with a stuttering synth line over the top of it. Lots of layers in this. For me, this was the standout track on the disc. "Caravan" features strummed guitar with saxophone and a loping beat that has the feel of a person staggering down the street. "Murmuration" is a track of honking horns that sound like a dying seal with some rattling percussion and bits a piano interspersed throughout. "Reprise" finishes off the disc with a very short track (less than a minute) of mostly strummed guitar.

For me this was kind of a mixed bag. There is a lot that I liked about this; there is a feeling of experimentalism that I appreciate and a healthy dose of dissonance in several of the tracks. On the other hand, there are times where it gets a bit too new-age feeling for my tastes and it didn't quite have the same feeling of cohesion as the other Serein disc I reviewed in this batch (Jonas Meyer: Konfusion). That said, it was well done and may simply be a matter of personal taste. This album weighs in at around 40 minutes.