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Visionary saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel presents BaRcoDe, a bold electroacoustic album for saxophone and percussion. This project brings together four renowned vibraphonists and percussionists - Joel Ross, Simon Moullier, Patricia Brennan and Juan Diego Villalobos - and captures the energy of their residencies at the Jazz Gallery, recorded at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn. Through complex compositions and immersive sound design, BaRcoDe blurs the boundaries between chamber music, modern jazz and electronic experimentation, exploring new horizons for Wendel. Twice nominated for GRAMMY Awards and co-founder of Kneebody, Wendel has built a career marked by eclecticism and constant reinvention. BaRcoDe follows in this lineage, bringing together four innovative percussionists who each reinvent their instrument in a unique way: from Ross's expressive harmonic sensitivity to Moullier's microtonal precision, through Brennan's textured work and Villalobos's folkloric rhythmic intensity. Scheduled for March 13, 2026 on Edition Records, the album embodies Wendel's insatiable thirst to explore sound as architecture: flexible, collaborative and resolutely futuristic.