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Imagine you’re sitting by the fire on a warm autumn night, curled up in a scratchy, woollen blanket. Listen to the crackles and pops from the fire, as you look at the golden brown glaze of toasted marshmallows. It smells like… memories, long forgotten.

Scenes like this one you’d think would require precise description to imagine, but the musical interplay of biggerPicture - the international duo of Tobias Bech (trumpet) and Laurie Rich (piano) - creates a delicate space, that invites the audience to embark on a journey of inner contemplation: in a warm sound-world of almost crystalline fragility. Memories are painted across your mind in broad strokes on canvas - a bold gesture that invites you to look inward.

Let’s see what that might look like:

Lights are down, and the chatter in the background from the audience indicates that no one has even noticed that the music already started. A soft, hammering noise grows in volume as the confusion of the audience rises - Has it already begun? Am I hearing this correctly? Are we all going mad? Screeches of birds, emanating from the bell of the trumpet, fill the room. Some might not even call it music, just an untamed collection of sounds - that is until the piano enters, expressing a feeling, which can only be described as home. It invites you to contemplate where you are; to remember who you’re with; it indirectly asks you all the questions you were always afraid of asking yourself. It inspires you to look at life from above, to look at the bigger picture.

Their music effortlessly weaves diverse styles into a coherent whole, drawing on the influences of artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Immanuel Wilkins, Shai Maestro, Adrianne Lenker, and Nick Drake. The debut duo-album, recorded in Berlin’s famous Hansa Studios in late 2024, features the acclaimed Swedish vocalist Irma Neumüller, and is set for release on Zennez Records in April 2026.