Label: Jazzego
Cat No: JAZZEGO012
Format: Vinyl and digital
Genre: Jazz Fusion
Release Date: 25th July 2026
Future3 are Irina (keys/synths), Miguel (bass/synth) and Rodrigo (drums), a Berlin trio that works from jazz without treating it as a fixed territory. Keys, synths, bass and drums are the main coordinates, but the music rarely stays in one place for long: it can lean into the harmonic density of the jazz tradition, move through the futurism of synthesizers and sampling, or open into the kind of improvisation where a piece can change length, weight and direction from one performance to the next.
Their first album, Despite the Rumbling, comes out on Jazzego Records on July 25. The title is not decorative. It comes from a fairly plain feeling: the world is noisy, unstable, difficult to ignore, and still the band chooses to meet in a room and make music together. There is no attempt here to pretend the rumbling is not there. The record carries some of that pressure with it, touching on community, capitalism, AI, streaming and the strange work of trying to keep an artistic life going while everything around it becomes more complicated.
That idea also shaped the way the album was made. Recorded at Butterama Recording Center in Berlin by Daniel Nentwig and Freddy Corazzini, Despite the Rumbling keeps the energy of musicians playing together in the same space. Future3 were looking for something old-fashioned in the best sense: the sound of people listening to each other, making decisions in real time, allowing the room and the day to leave marks on the music. Some things remain loose. Some edges are left visible. The point was never to make the record feel corrected into place.
At the same time, this is not a nostalgic album. Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano, Minimoog, Korg MS-20, pedal chains, digital sampling, granular synthesis and resampling all enter the picture. The group mention Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Sun Ra, 70s Afrofuturism, progressive jazz, psychedelic jazz and future jazz as references, but the more interesting thing is how those references are pulled into compositions that often have several internal rooms of their own. The pieces move through parts, moods and textures with a patience that comes from having played and lived with some of this material for almost two years.
There are guests too, and they are not ornamental. Jamichael Frazier appears on flute on „Breeze on the Menu“, Kelly O’Donohue adds trumpet to „Grace“ and „Flares“, and Kota No Uta joins „Mystic Sheep“, a track that changed shape so much during the session that her role became closer to co-writing and co-production. These collaborations widen the trio’s sound without turning the album away from its central force: the unstable, generous conversation between three players.
The artwork, created from a tapestry by Koen Taselaar with design by Simone Trum, gives the record another useful image. It refers to the long human habit of predicting the apocalypse and getting it wrong. That thought sits naturally beside the music: there is anxiety here, but also humour, warmth and a refusal to stop moving.
After the EP Places and the single „No Slip“, Future3 have already built a live life around their music, playing across Germany, Austria, Denmark, Portugal, Slovakia, Czechia and Poland. Despite the Rumbling feels like the point where that live experience, the studio, and the band’s wider set of influences begin to settle into a clearer language. It is music made with the outside world audible in the walls, but also with the stubborn belief that a shared room can still produce something worth holding onto.
Despite the Rumbling is out July 25, 2026 on Jazzego Records. Future3 mark the release that same night at Arkaoda Berlin, with guests Jamichael Frazier, Kelly O’Donohue, Kota No Uta, and DJ sets by DJ Allynx, Sean Steinfeger and Jazzego Club Cuts.
Web / Social Media Links:
https://www.future3.eu/
https://www.instagram.com/future3_music/
https://future3.bandcamp.com/
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