This fresh trio uniting JOSÉ LENCASTRE (sax), MARTINA VERHOEVEN (piano) and DIRK SERRIES (guitar) released their 2nd album ‘Canonical Discourse’ last year. Ken Waxman just wrote a lovely review about the album for Canada’s JAZZ WORD. The album is available here.

“Boasting a slightly sharper edge are the Lemadi Trio’s four instances of canonical discourse. Firmly embedded in the European improvisational scene, Belgians guitarist Dirk Serries and pianist Martina Verhoeven have worked with numerous players on the continental and UK creative music scene, while Portuguese alto saxophonist José Lencastre has recorded with numerous players like Rodrigo Pinheiro and Onno Govaert. A comparable saxophone-guitar line up is part of both trios, but while the third member is either a drummer or a pianist, comparable sonority is expressed, since Hemingway’s drum subtlety is comparable to Verhoeven sometime keyboard aggression. Canonial Discourse starts off with jagged snorts and peeps from Lencastre, irregular strums from Serries and slashes across the piano’s internal string set by Verhoeven and goes on from there. Very quickly it escalates to whiny reed multiphonics as crackles and cascades from both piano and guitar undulate in unison and set up a contrapuntal challenge to the saxophone. While there are quieter moments in the final “Little Emphasis”, overall the restrained interludes here and elsewhere which favor key plinks, disassociated string strums and horizontal reed lines are surpassed by tougher sequences. Reed screeches, thin guitar jabs and piano soundboard rattles predominate. This interaction reaches a climax on “Disjuncture”. Clashes among reed stops and doits plus keyboard and metallic frails continuously accelerate until ending with note-bending affiliations.”