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Artist:	TRIOSK MEETS JAN JELINEK
Title:	1 + 3 + 1
Label:	SCAPE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SCAPE 020CD

"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 finalize. 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 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."

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