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Visionary saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel presents BaRcoDe, a daring new electroacoustic album for saxophone and mallets (vibraphone and percussion). The project features four leading vibraphonists and percussionists – Joel Ross, Simon Moullier, Patricia Brennan, and Juan Diego Villalobos – and captures the energy of their residencies at The Jazz Gallery, recorded at The Bunker Studio in Brooklyn. Across intricate compositions and immersive sound design, BaRcoDe blurs the line between chamber music, modern jazz, and electronic experimentation, expanding Wendels creative language into new terrain.

A two-time GRAMMY nominee and co-founder of Kneebody, Wendel has built a career defined by range and reinvention. BaRcoDe continues that trajectory, uniting four boundary-pushing percussionists each redefining their instruments in distinctive ways from Rosss expressive harmonic sensibility to Moulliers microtonal precision, Brennans processed textures, and Villaloboss folkloric rhythmic intensity. Released March 13th, 2026 on Edition Records, the album embodies Wendels restless drive to explore sound as architecture – elastic, collaborative, and boldly futuristic.

Tracklist:

1.Clouds
2.Mimo
3.Olha Maria
4.Repeat After Me
5.Birds Ascend
6.Lonely One