Just two more days to go for you to enjoy the free shipping when you pre-order our newest release : KODIAN PLUS – DISENGAGE.
After KODIAN TRIO’s tour in Germany in March 2022, the trio headed into the Sunny Side Inc. studio in Anderlecht (Belgium), with special guests MARTINA VERHOEVEN on grand piano and CHARLOTTE KEEFFE on flugelhorn and trumpet. These two unique musicians have excellent reputations in the field of free improvisation, especially for their distinctive approaches to their respective instruments. And it’s this distinctive approach that is the secret sauce that’s being added to working band KODIAN TRIO.
This beautifully recorded studio album, captured and mixed by the head engineer at Sunnyside Inc. is a unique free jazz release that triggers your listening experience, disrupts the obvious, and boosts the adrenaline.
PRE-ORDER your copy now and save on 100% shipping costs worldwide. Valid through this March 15th, 2023.
UK’s MUSIQUE MACHINE just reviewed our latest release DANDELION by Jackson/Serries/Vanderstraeten. Read the 3 out of 5 rated review here below. The cd is available from our bandcamp store.
“3 out of 5 rating. Dandelion is a five-track improv release that rewardingly shifts from the darting & playful, onto the lightly seared and moody, through to the manic & rather wacky. The release features the trio of Tom Jackson- Clarinet, Dirk Serries- acoustic guitar, and Kris Vanderstraeten- Percussion/ Drums. The release comes in the form of a CD release on Antwerpen’s A New Wave Of Jazz- who focuses on the more difficult, abstract, and noise-bound side of the improv/ modern composition genres. The CD comes presented in labels house style grey & white mini gatefold- which features on its outside grey boxes and white texts, and inside a write-up about the trio & the track presented here. This release is Ltd to just 200 copies. Of the trio I was already aware of Mr Serries- since the mid-’80s this Belgian’s career has shifted from the ambient/experimental stylings of his Vidna Obmana project, onto the more improv-focused work of his solo/ collaborative release. I also knew Londoner Tom Jackson, after hearing his intense duelling horn improv release The Other Lies( with saxophonist Collin Webster)- released on New Wave Of Jazz in 2022. I wasn’t familiar with Kris Vanderstraeten work, but after a search, I find out he’s been active in the Belgian free improv scene since the 1970s- with around twenty releases to his name. The five tracks featured here have runtimes between four and eleven minutes a piece. We open with “Carnation Pink” which goes from low-key warbles, creaks, and neck scrambles. Onto a more playful blend of rapid percussive dart ‘n’ fumble, jiving strums, and flighty flute ‘n’ wails. We have the wacky fiddling ‘n’ forking of “Violet Blue” which finds exuberant horn weaves, meeting guitar twangs ‘n’ scrubs, and generally shifting percussive playfulness. In the second half of the record, we have ”Dark Green” which shifts from low-key scrapes, whistles, and dragging hisses. Though to a more lively mix of mischievous honks, guitar pluck ‘n’ saw, and tip-top percussive shifts. Onto a more haunting, and almost ritual refrain. With the album been finished off with the manic slapstick feel of “Bright Yellow” which begins all detailed percussive darts, neck scrubs ‘n’ bays, and tightly constricted horn darts….though later on dips into slightly more forlorn waters, with stretched warbling honks, winding to tip-toping percussion runs, and choppy strums.
Dandelion is another mighty fine example of adventurous, at points manic & seared improv from the folks at A New Wave Of Jazz. With all three players really work wonderfully together to create a selection of unpredictable & searingly vibrant improv.” Musique Machine – UK
Andrzej Nowak’ SPONTANEOUS MUSIC TRIBUNE does it again. In his imaginative Polish native language he just reviewed DUNNING/TAYLOR/THOMPSON’s cassette release ‘THE TAPE’. Excellent. THE TAPE is still available from our store, limited to 60 copies so don’t wait too long.
W kategorii brytyjskich improwizatorów średniego pokolenia, The Tape to niemal spotkanie na szczycie! Świetnie nam znani mistrzowie minimalistycznej akustyki, Taylor i Thompson, spotykają tu Dunninga, mistrza nieoczywistych konfiguracji nieakustycznych. Krótkie zwarcie koncertowe mieni się tysiącami barw, ale też po raz kolejny udowadnia, iż prawdziwa nić porozumienia między dźwiękami syntetycznymi i akustycznymi nawiązuje się na poziomie wytłumionych, bliskich ciszy igraszek fonicznych. Początkowy strumień narracji formuje się ze szmerów i pojedynczych dźwięków strunowych oraz elektroakustycznej smugi dość już gęstych fonii. Altówka skupia się na drobnych, ale na ogół preparowanych frazach, gitara z kolei swój konceptualny minimalizm wtłacza w ramy zachowań repetytywnych. Po upływie kilku minut pierwsze, dość hałaśliwe fragmenty koncertu urokliwie przepoczwarzają się w subtelne frazowania, którym niezbyt daleko do ciszy. Duża w tym zasługa mistrza syntetyki, który tłuste zwoje szumów zamienia na drobne, usterkowe didaskalia, doposażone w ambientowe tło. Muzycy bez trudu łapią porozumienie i kreują coraz bardziej intrygujące sytuacje sceniczne. W połowie koncertu pojawiają się nowe elementy – struny zgrzytają, elektroakustyka rezonuje, a potem pulsuje. Altówka trwa przy frazach preparowanych, gitara tyka jak zegar ścienny. Z tego oceanu drobiazgów artyści formują narrację, która nie jest pozbawiona znamion rytmu. Akcja zaczyna tu gonić akcję! Altówka idzie w taniec, gitara, choć ma nieco wolniejszy metabolizm, także ochoczo podryguje, a post-elektronika dba o całą resztę. W okolicach 25 minuty flow gaśnie aż do poziomu ciszy. Nowe wątki są teraz wyjątkowo filigranowe, choć maszyneria Dunninga przypominać zaczyna swoje bardziej głośne oblicze, znane z początku koncertu. Zakończenie spektaklu przychodzi wyjątkowe nagle, jakby ktoś przez przypadek zgasił światło.” Spontaneous Music Tribune – Poland
Halfway next week KODIAN TRIO (Colin Webster, Andrew Lisle, Dirk Serries) will do four UK dates. Partially to promote the KODIAN PLUS release but also to write another chapter in their ongoing work as a free impro/free jazz trio. A trio that saw daylight when they played a quartet gig at Cafe Oto in 2015. Check out the places/venues and dates and come and say hello.
Welcome to Bandcamp Friday ! To celebrate this, we just launched the pre-order of a new release we’re very excited about: KODIAN PLUS – DISENGAGE on our new line of releases called AXIS.
After KODIAN TRIO’s tour in Germany in March 2022, the trio headed into the Sunny Side Inc. studio in Anderlecht (Belgium), with special guests MARTINA VERHOEVEN on grand piano and CHARLOTTE KEEFFE on flugelhorn and trumpet. These two unique musicians have excellent reputations in the field of free improvisation, especially for their distinctive approaches to their respective instruments. And it’s this distinctive approach that is the secret sauce that’s being added to working band KODIAN TRIO.
This beautifully recorded studio album, captured and mixed by the head engineer at Sunnyside Inc. is a unique free jazz release that triggers your listening experience, disrupts the obvious, and boosts the adrenaline.
PRE-ORDER your copy now and save on 100% shipping costs worldwide. Valid through March 15th, 2023.
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