Before signing Balmorhea, a neoclassical group led by Texas natives Michael A. Muller and Rob Lowe, in 2020, the renowned German classical music label Deutsche Grammophon had never, to the group’s ...

Ahead of a 2010 Balmorhea show in Brooklyn, the New Yorker gushed in its listing sections about the band’s fourth album, Constellations. “It is an exemplary experiment in restraint, lush with a ...

It’s a challenge to keep any creative partnership fresh, especially when the partners involved have known each other for more than 20 years. “Every album that comes along,” says Robert Griffin Lowe of ...

B almorhea is both a small town in West Texas and a six-piece instrumental group based in Austin. Most people probably know the band better than the town, given that the latter is only home to about ...

When it’s done well, music, like all art, can create a truly evocative experience. Just take Balmorhea. The sextet from Austin, Texas, led by founding members Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, creates the ...

Continuing the adventurous musical lineage of Austin — the hotbed responsible for Explosions in the Sky — classical-influenced quintet Balmorhea blend Americana, ambient textures and chamber ...

Beneath the bridge that divides Columbus, Texas, the Colorado River treads so slowly that the current appears to be moving in both directions. A slightly trodden path winds through the thicket, ...

Just a month ago, a drive across I-10 proved a treacherous endeavor with assertive crosswinds from the north and swirls of dust that left visibility around 20 or 30 yards. Gassing up in Fort Stockton, ...

It came from Austin! And no, I'm not talking about the yearly South by Southwest festival, or even the roots of the alt-country movement itself. No, the real news from Austin is the release this week ...

“Heir I,” Balmorhea’s first newly released track since 2012, finds poignancy in restraint. With no more than a handful of elegant performances on Wurlitzer, violin, and electric bass, it creates a ...

May 2, 2023 • NPR Music's Lars Gotrich joins All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen to share his favorite new sonic adventures in the loud and weird, including Bodywash, the Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective and ...

Now a six-piece band, Austin's Balmorhea has come a long way from its days as a two-man outfit. Building upon both classical and post rock influences, Balmorhea's third album, All is Wild, All is ...