[EM]

[em] 3

 

1. Sempre Igor - 04:02 (Eric Schaefer) 

2. Arsène Somnambule - 05:52 (Eric Schaefer) 

3. Wo leichte Kähne fliehen - 03:25 (Eric Schaefer)   

4. Monsters: Symmetriads - 06:19 (Michael Wollny) 

5. Ephemere Phone - 01:36 (Eric Schaefer) 

6. Love Of Her Life - 04:34 (Eva Kruse) 

7. Nocturne - 03:54 (Eric Schaefer) 

8. Kiyoshi - 04:33 (Michael Wollny) 

9. Lautloser Adel - 03:55 (Eva Kruse) 

10. What Kurtag Left - 02:27 (Eva Kruse) 

11. Grieg's Last Bow - 02:55 (Michael Wollny) 

12. Gravité - 04:15 (Eric Schaefer)   

13. Redux - 03:23 (Eric Schaefer) 

 

Michael Wollny – piano

Eva Kruse – bass

Eric Schaefer – drums

 

The young German trio [em] is not one to rest on its laurels. The first two albums were widely lauded, and the trio rocked at the Jazzwise 10th anniversary celebrations and at subsequent UK gigs last year, but rather than sticking to a safe formula the third album is a sonic departure, a subtly-nuanced exercise in jazz reductionism. The pace slows, the ambience mellows, only the dissonance remains. Yet the result is as engrossing as ever. It is hard to sound like no other piano trio, but [em] is a unique entity.

 

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