s w e e t b e a t s
november.12.2003 - #1210
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artist : Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek
album : 1+3+1
year : 2003
label : Scape
genre : Electronic
catalogue : SC20CD
url : http://www.scape-music.de
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Mis-Leader 04:17
02.On the Lake 05:14
03.Track 2 05:32
04.Munmorah 05:25
05.Theme form Trioskinek 05:42
06.Vibes/Pulse 05:29
07.Neckless 05:08
08.Distant Shore 03:42
08 tracks | 40:29 mins | 55,7 MB
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Sydney-based jazz trio Triosk and Jan Jelinek from Berlin have
opened up a common equation. In musical terms, their joint album
"1+3+1" does not make 5, but only one thing: sense. And the title
reflects their production method: Jelinek mails selected samples
and textures to Australia, Triosk use these as a basis for
composition and recording, the enhanced material then returns to
Berlin for Jelinek to finalise. But the mileage covered does not
become audible. In fact, the origin of their music seems to be tied
to the moment of synchrony, in this case "four different
instruments multiplied by four different approaches make one
sense", irrespective of causal or temporal interdependencies. This
might make "Triosk meets Jan Jelinek" an alliance in entangled
space (analogous to quantum physics), but it is the rarely audible
magic of a resourceful crystalline musicality which fills the album
with sophistication and clarity.
Triosk and Jan Jelinek play together with eerie assurance and
emphatic sensibility. An important feature of their music is the
synchrony of events. Seemingly loose ends of separate figures join
in a clear train of thought, conveying information not in
succession, but simultaneously. In return, the listener is free to
leave this complex world of sound and decide by himself to follow
the bass line, piano or vibraphone, to to concentrate on drum
patterns or decrypt electronic textures. Archetypal, dissolving
jazz elements correspond to repetitive patterns not known to the
genre, electronics and acoustics circle each other but remain
conjoined. A double helix begins to form, a musical strand of DNA
whose individual elements, taken by themselves, might not make
sense. But in the right place and order, read out in their
entirety, they define not only life itself, but (in their
sequences) also its individual features.
Two years ago Laurence Pike (24, drums), Adrian Klumpes (24, piano)
and Ben Waples (22, double bass) formed Triosk to create a seamless
connection between acoustic and electronic elements.
Unsurprisingly, there are strong references to the Bill Evans Trio,
as this pianist (deceased in 1980) set out to redefine the roles of
a classical jazz trio, declaring drums and double bass equal lead
instruments to the piano. Triosk take this further by playing with
jazz-untypical approaches to composition, drawing on the structures
and textures of minimalism and electronic music. When it comes to
electronic production processes they are most interested in how
sounds and ideas can overlap, reaching a highly organic interplay
that is remarkably similar to the improvisation with other
musicians. It was more or less by chance that Triosk came across
the works of Jan Jelinek: again the principle of synchrony, of
significant chance, seemed to play a major role.
Pike was recording electronic music of the radio to collect samples
for Triosk. The most suitable loops, the basis of some early
compositions, turned out to hail from Jelinek's album "Loop-finding
Jazz Records". This again was based on countless of samples taken
from old jazz records. When Jelinek was touring Australia in 2001,
they met for the very first time after a concert in Sydney. Jelinek
was enthusiastic about other artists using his music in this way
and, after getting to know the trio and their music, suggested a
joint project with new material assembled especially for the album
"1+3+1". Maybe geographical circumstances have something to do with
the fact that Jelinek and Triosk approach a similar musical task
from completely different directions as we all know, water drains
off the other way Down Under, too.
The cover image: "Blick zurⁿck" ("look back") by J÷rn Gerstenberg.
The Berlin-based illustrator first came to attention with his
architectural fantasies and mazy cityscapes in black and white.
His wall murals adorn Berlin clubs as well as Mecklenburgian
castles. Winner of countless awards and exhibitions in Istanbul,
Reykjavik, Berlin and Cologne. --www.scape-music.de
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