While searching to complete a firm collection of Jazz Noir with experimental twists and ambience i crossed this album.It is relatively recent and more over it is not even described as Jazz but Blues, lets say it has the muddled tone and instrumentals of smooth Jazz but the cadence and aural oscillation of Blues and that is exactly where Noir Jazz should land off. Dark matters. And take notice, this work is all about darkness or at the very least black and white with tones in a grey territory.It is compilation, a strict everything since it has the two albums this German band has released plus an additional CDr with remixes by OKR. The release is very well done, sober presentation, minimalist, eye catching with the cover artwork from the voluptous and opulent interior of what seems to be some 70s car, very suggestive and keep you guessing on the contents.First album is perhaps the one with most form and definitively pointing the direction into Noir Jazz, even Doom Jazz if you want with the lento to lentissimo tempo it does exhibit through the six songs it presents.Very minimalist in the making it recurs to very simple rhythms that second ominous atonal piano notes that always left a halo that extends the confines of the notation, there is also the inclusion of muddled bass tones that condense into drone reverberation, tons of thick atmosphere layers come as result leaving a time of reflection after the sporadic apparition of the next piano note and the drift of the drum set. Quiet yet intense this work doesnt fall into the relaxedness of smooth jazz as it enters the territory that is demarked by the somber and heavy atmosphere. Second album is way more incidental and experimental also, it uses similar rendition as its precursor but this time the form is more anarchic, sometimes just untimely till the point of been shocking. Strong notation and latent atmospherics that seem to submerge into dense waters just to rerun with a very strange impetus, making the listener feeling uneasy and bewildered as result of this uncertain path. The density of the atmosphere and the strangeness from it remits of images of quiet posts in dense populated cities, the cabin of the clerk at the car parking under a veiled lamp, quiet streets with dim lights, maybe all the modern city scenaries painted by Edward Hoper can be used as example. Not frightening but definitively dark in mood, quiet and reflexive, deriving into a recurrent spiralling effect that doesn´t seem to end. Then all off sudden many muddled voices start to take prominence until they develop, the image of a crowded space takes place and the record finishes.Last record, the remixes is the divergent note. The remixes dismantled the recognisable band´s sound by adding a mysterious fog of synth lines very much in the vein of Akira yamaoka Silent Hill´s soundtracks, structural sequences and firm rhythm bass and muddled beats that reestructures signature samplers from the band, creating drone layers with some atmospheres and yuxtapose everything creating a final result that is very eerie and intriguing, more close to dark ambient with a sense of rhythm. Imagine a walk into dense shreds of fog into the moor, that is more likely the place the four songs in the record will guide you through. Very interesting.All in all, very good work for this still young band, could very well be added to the Mount fuji doomjazz corporation type of experimentation.