Connection has become strangely complicated.“When you’re an artist, it’s hard to ignore that… what we’re dealing with right now,” says British saxophonist, composer and bandleader Sam Newbould.

We live surrounded by noise. Opinions, headlines and endless reasons to disagree with each other. It can make the world feel fractured, with people struggling to find common ground. On One day we’ll have a window , Sam Newbould traces the small threads of human connection back into focus.

Literally, the album was written in the windowless basement studio Newbould works from inside Amsterdam’s Volkshotel. What began as a practical reference to that space gradually evolved into something more symbolic.

As Newbould describes it, the title became about learning to “see through the walls that are dividing us, and see each other just for what we are.”Not politically. Not ideologically. Simply humanly.

That idea shaped not only the album’s message, but also the way Newbould approached writing itself. “I think I’ve let go of a lot of inhibitions.”

Much of the music was created instinctively and in real time: singing melodies out loud, building loops, recording ideas as they appeared and following feeling rather than overthinking composition.

“I used to sit down and literally write stuff down and think about it,” Newbould explains. “Now I really just play, let myself go with the flow and record what I’m doing in real time.”

One day we’ll have a window also expands Newbould’s musical language in unexpected directions. Alongside the quintet recordings are intimate self-produced pieces built from layered saxophone keys, synth textures, flute, vocals and manipulated percussion. Tracks like “Warp and weft Reprise” and “Thee tha theesen” reveal another side of his writing: personal, fragile and unconcerned with genre boundaries.

“Music should feel vulnerable and unsafe,” Newbould says. “This is a very honest representation of where I’m at.”

And perhaps that vulnerability is the album’s real center.

Instead of speaking in grand gestures, One day we’ll have a window stays close to the simple things: sincerity, shared rhythm, a melody someone quietly hums back after the concert ends.

Or as Newbould puts it:

“Any small connection, whatever that means… that immediately can help that feeling.”