Veda Bartringer: 'Deep Space Adventure'

There’s depth and texture to the combination of genres on ‘Deep Space Adventure’, the latest album from guitarist and composer Veda Bartringer.

Starting with the very brief Lift Off, the whole album refuses to sit in any genre box, but instead takes the listener through contemporary classical music, jazz and funk on this collection of tunes. The opening guitar of Search for Light sets a mellow tone as the other musicians pick up the themes and groove.

Joining Veda Bartringer (guitar) are Julien Cuvelier (sax), Boris Schmidt (bass) and Maxime Magotteaux (drums), all of them among Luxembourg’s finest and award-winning young musicians.

The ensemble textures are fine at the start of No Edge in the Sky, the first track here to feature a solo from Bartringer herself. Up next is the more esoteric and expansive Avoid the Asteroid, with its rhythmic tricks and flowing melodic lines shared by sax and guitar.

Deep Space Adventure is a fascinating album, with tracks like IO’s Volcan allowing Bartringer to show her excellence both as a guitarist and as a composer. By the time we come back Down to Earth, we are ending our journey through this album in another brief track that brings the musical cycle to a conclusion that is perhaps only leading us back to the start.

A truly ambitious and effective collection of tracks that refuse to sit in any genre but allow our imaginations to take us wherever that inspiration leads us.

Veda Bartringer presents ‘Deep Space Adventure’ on 19 April 2026