This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
CMU Approved
Approved: Anne Müller
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 1 October 2019
A regular collaborator with Nils Frahm and Agnes Obel, among many others, cellist Anne Müller is set to release her debut album, ‘Heliopause’, in November.
It’s named after the point at the edge of our solar system where solar wind from our own system is in balance with the interstellar wind from outside it.
Müller settled on the name after the second of NASA’s two Voyager satellites reached this point last year, meaning it is no longer powered by our sun. That event occurred 41 years after launch, and saw the Voyager project entering a new phase of its mission.
Approaching the same age herself, she saw her new musical project in similar terms, as she was leaving behind the collaborations that have sustained her to date, branching out alone for the first time. “‘Heliopause’ marks the end of a long journey but also the start of voyages to explore strange new worlds”, she says.
The first track released from the album, ‘Nummer 2’, begins that journey. A beautiful piece of music, it unfurls slowly, shifting through changes almost imperceptible as they are happening, gradually becoming more apparent as you head ever deeper into it.
Listen to ‘Nummer 2’ here:
Stay up to date with all of the artists featured in the CMU Approved column by subscribing to our Spotify playlist.
