Founded 13 years ago when its members were in university together in Berlin, Subtone plays high-powered, sophisticated, tautly arranged original music. For trumpeter Magnus Schriefl, reeds player Malte Dürrschnabel. pianist Florian Hoefner, bassist Matthias Pichler and drummer Peter Gall, there was consistently a lot of detailed material to execute. But the music’s thrills came not just from its baked-in richness bur also from the way in which the band could dive deeply and collectively into improvising while using those compositions as springboards. — Read more
Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen