Does music need a place where it can originate and spread, or does it itself create the topography within which it locates itself? The young German saxophonist Max Treutner clearly tends toward the latter assumption, because on his debut album he takes us to Zen Garden, which exists only through his musical vision. With a devoted sense of movement and detail, he transports his audience from their everyday lives to this special place, where they can shed the perpetual grind with all its worries and conflicts, slip through a hatch, and simply let themselves fall into the maelstrom of music. From the first note to the last, Treutner's album thrives on an unparalleled inner and outer serenity. 'Zen Garden' is an invitation to place so much trust in the four musicians on the album that passive listening becomes an active moment of awareness and focus.

1. Evoke
2. Somewhen
3. Zen Garden
4. Hydrochoerus Rex
5. The First Fish Decides to Go Ashore
6. Age of Vapes and Posers
7. Unseen You
8. Frank, the Mosquito
9. Honest Lies
10. Ballerup
11. Crawling Oats