tri_an_gle trio
Maria Kalnars: piano
Ian Robinson: double bass
Hervé Perez: alto saxophone
contact:
Maria – mariakalnarsart’at’gmail.com
Hervé – sndsukinspook’at’live.com
A recently formed trio of improvising musicians, double bass, sax, piano. The music ranges from intense sparsity to blasting phrases and ethereal noise. Long, haunting melodic material is developed with interplay amongst the musicians, who gently push each other to extend their expression. The trio move together in the musical journey, which crosses from abstraction to rhythmic episodes and develops jazz-influenced rhythms and harmony. Each player’s long experience of improvising allows for deep listening, and more exploratory soundscapes involving extended techniques, vocals and electronic treatment.
biography
Maria Kalnars
Piano, melodica, viola, voice. Maria had a classical training, including post-graduate study and musicological analysis. She plays jazz and improvised music, and also has long experience of working in community and educational projects in London and elsewhere. She has a broad and varied range of influences from Theolonius Monk to Morton Feldman. Maria also develops graphic scores for tri_an_gle and ifitisn’t – an improvising electronic duo with Ian Robinson. She has also produced the artwork for the mini CD cover of ifitisn’t: colophon (focused silence records), and for several other artists’ recordings.
https://ifitisnt.bandcamp.com/
Ian Robinson
Double-bass, Eurorack modular, guitars, sonic sundries. Works in jazz, improvised and experimental electronic music (ifitisn’t). A self-taught player, his influences include electronic pioneers such as Henri Pousseur and Luc Ferrari, as well as the many great jazz bass players (Wilbur Ware to Henry Grimes and Charlie Haden) and the improvising guitarist Roger Smith (SME), long-time mentor. Current practice influenced by the philosophy and methods of the late John Stevens.
Gigs – London: fringe theatre, (Finborough Arms, Portlands). Regular performances in jazz quartet/quintet. City Lit band. Sheffield: improvised music work with Adam Woolf (as, cl), John Jasnoch (gtr), Derek Saw (tpt). Jazz and improvising duo with Maria Kalnars.
Airplay (ifitisn’t): Resonance FM, A Duck in a Tree, FSK 93.00 Hamburg, Zoviet France
https://ifitisnt.bandcamp.com/
Hervé Perez
improviser, sound and visual artist, hervé performs spontaneous compositions with saxophones and laptop, using processed field recordings. his work is influenced by practices such as jazz, electro-acoustic, contemporary music, experimental electronics, free improvisation, immersive sound art and techniques of sound therapy.
https://nexttime.bandcamp.com/
for bookings, please see contact above.
technical details
maria performs on an acoustic piano; a grand piano with access to strings prefered.
stereo PA for the use of electronics prefered, although we also play acoustic music – tbc
nexttime studio 