The jazz club is slowly filling with laughing gas.

That’s the approximate experience of listening to K. Freund’s newest album Trash Can Lamb. Piano, sax and found sounds mingle with otherworldly noise, beamed in from a parallel dimension. Surreal, yet welcoming, the core of Freund’s work is a sort of Cheshire Cat joy, ever winking and ever fluttering away from reality. We spoke to him below.