Visionary saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel presents BaRcoDe, a daring new electroacoustic album for saxophone and mallets: vibraphone & percussion

'BaRcoDe explores sound as architecture - elastic, collaborative and driven by my
fascination with the space between composition and improvisation.'
Ben Wendel

Visionary saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel presents BaRcoDe, a daring
new electro-acoustic 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
Wendel's creative language into new terrain. A two- time Grammy nominee and co-founder of Kneebody, Ben 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 Ross's expressive harmonic
sensibility to Moullier's microtonal precision, Brennan's processed textures, and
Villalobos's folkloric rhythmic intensity. The album embodies Wendel's restless drive
to explore sound as architecture - elastic, collaborative, and boldly futuristic.

Ben Wendel: tenor saxophone, EFX

Joel Ross: vibraphone, marimba

Simon Moullier: vibraphone, chromatic balafon, EFX

Patricia Brennan: vibraphone, EFX

Juan Diego Villalobos: Vibraphone, mallet station, percussion, EFX

Track Listing

• Clouds
• Mimo
• Olha Maria
• Repeat After Me
• Birds Ascend
• Lonely One

Additional Details

Label: Edition Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/08/26

UPC: 5060509793181