Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Troyka: Ornithophobia - Album Review

Cormac Larkin
Fri, Feb 20, 2015
When Liebniz suggested that music was the pleasure the mind takes from counting without realising it, he was probably talking about the gratification of a well-resolved Baroque cadence. What he would have made of this British trio’s polyrhythmic tricks is anyone’s guess.

Serialism, psychedelia, spoken word, prog-rock, ambient, trip-hop and math-metal: all are deconstructed by pianist Kit Downes, guitarist Chris Montague and drummer Josh Blackmore, with some interventions from producer Peter Eldh, and reformed into dense sound- scapes that ebb and flow with hypnotic irregularity. Rhythmic complexity is the brave new world of improvised music; if you want a primer on where the younger generation are headed, Troyka should be on your reading list. naimlabel.com

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