ANNE MULLER

Heliopause ERASED TAPES

7/10

Avant-classical collaborator’s absorbing solo debut

A classically trained cellist-composer who has collaborated with Nils Frahm, Agnes Obel, Olafur Arnalds and more, native Berliner Anne Müller makes her belated solo debut with Heliopause. Drawing on modern chamber music, minimalism, serialism, electronica and musique concrète, these eight lengthy pieces mostly land somewhere between Aphex Twin and Arvo Pärt. “Being Anne” and “Aarhus/ Reminiscences” apply slithering, pitchbending strings to lightly mechanised tick-tock rhythms, to mostly gorgeous effect, while “Heliopause” itself is a miasma of swirling ambient mist. Despite rare lapses into overly tasteful avant-wallpaper, Müller’s richly textured sound paintings are mostly absorbing affairs, plaintive, lyrical and sporadically sublime.