Alarm Will Sound was in Hamburg, Germany, this past weekend to perform at Kampnagel's K6 Hall Friday night. Featured on the program were John Adams's Son of Chamber Symphony and Autechre's Cfern, the latter off the group's recently released Nonesuch debut, a/rhythmia.

The Times (UK) gives the new album four stars. "The rhythms here will trip you up as they collide in an eclectic programme of complex music," says reviewer Geoff Brown, "ideally designed for the forceful New York exuberance of the group Alarm Will Sound and the conductor Alan Pierson." Brown concludes: "All is joyous and raucous." Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk.

The Hamburger Abendblatt's Joachim Mischke says the audience at Friday's Kampnagel concert was "rewarded with an adventurous journey for the senses." Alarm Will Sound "made it clear" with Fridays' program "that it is assured and competent in the field of contemporary music," writes Mischke. He goes on to say that even in its more adventurous undertakings into electronica, where many others have failed, "Here, it succeeded." Read the article in the original German at abendblatt.de. There was a feature profile of the group in Der Welt published last week before the concert, which you can find, also in German, at welt.de.