Having performed in duos previously, this trio came together at Festival Noise No. 5, at Theatre Le Ring, in Toulouse, the sound of the group is a "malleable space in which the musicians generate small or bigger shapes, simple and complex sounds, irregular and mechanical rhythms."
Format: CDR Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: Great Britain Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve Sealed Recorded live during Festival Noise No. 5, at Theatre Le Ring, in Toulouse, France, on December 12th, 2015, by Pierre-Olivier Boulant
"This group is the result of crossed relationships. Denzler and Dorner know each other for 15 years, Denzler and Gerbal work together in several projects, Dorner and Gerbal are both members of Peeping Tom. As a trio, they played their first concert in Berlin in March 2015 and the music was immediately obvious. The sound of the group is a malleable space in which the musicians generate small or bigger shapes, simple and complex sounds, irregular and mechanical rhythms."-Confront
"There's generally less happening at once on Le Ring - one of the many new releases from Confront Recordings - than on albums I typically feature here, but between the various voicings of Axel Dörner on trumpet, the eerie counterpoint of Bertrand Denzler on saxophone, and the chthonic drumming of Antonin Gerbal, the album possesses an elemental appeal. Slow-moving processes collide - not so unlike the collisions I recently discussed on Give and Take [Frode Gjerstad], albeit at faster, conversational speeds in that case - and evoke a feeling of being outside of (human?) time, particularly as e.g. the beating of the drums slows down. In other words, there's relatively little sense of melody or harmony, despite the rather straightforward linear approach of each musician, but the resulting interaction produces sensations of unstoppable force & change. (The quality of the result is somewhat reminiscent of e.g. Anomonous, albeit there with more aggressive activity, more varied & often industrial, less elemental.) Le Ring seems to be part of an inquiry into the minimal means required to evoke such an effect. [...]"-Todd McComb, Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts