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Variations in Trioriot


16 February 2010
Trioriot
Paul Zetter

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Trichotomy - Variations

 

The minute I heard this CD I knew it would be my next review - but it's been a wait because it's a grower - every time I start to put pen to paper a new musical avenue reveals itself so I release the pen and immerse myself in this wonderfully layered beautifully played music once more, the review on hold. Australia seems the place to be at the moment jazz trio-wise, having just recently review Aaron Choulai's Ranu and now this, Variations from Australian trio Trichotomy. Living up to the philosophy that the trio for me at least is the ultimate expression of ‘man's threefold nature', the reviews are ablaze with comparisons to EST but they also accurately state that Trichotomy are no copy-ists - this is a contemporary trio masterpiece that runs the influence gamut from Satie like on Please, James.P Johnson, hear Chunk, to the current day triorioteers from Europe and America but with more space, silence, mood change and sonic variation.

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Sometimes you have to remind yourself that you can pay for and download magnificent music like this in seconds without even leaving your chair. In these techno-days of ‘everything's amazing and nobody's happy', Trichotomy's Variations reminds us that some people still know how to play mechanically generated notes together and make them sound like they were caressed by the wind from an angel's wings.

Paul Zetter


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