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LOOM

KALI Trio

LOOM

Price: € 14.95
Format: CD
Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
UPC: 0610098166948
Catnr: RON 026
Release date: 05 March 2021
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Label
Ronin Rhythm Records
UPC
0610098166948
Catalogue number
RON 026
Release date
05 March 2021
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About the album

LOOM is the second album by KALI Trio and shows the consequent development of the original style of the working band. The three Swiss musicians Nicolas Stocker (drums), Urs Müller (e-guitar) und Raphael Loher (piano) weave the various threads of their stylistic background together with relish and fresh skilfulness on their musical loom. The music, created jointly as an organism, is continuously charged in the four tracks and in the overall dramaturgy of the album. It unfolds its rhythmic pull and its mysterious atmosphere in a subtle and inexorable manner. LOOM consists of only four compositions, but clocks in at a few seconds short of the 45 minute mark! It's a beast in scope, but airy (literally) in feel, hence easy to inhale. Each piece plays like the equivalent of a time-lapse of a looming cloud formation –a liquid progression of shifting shapes, changing density as well as shadow and light play.

By the virtue of working with subtle iterations of form and using extended swaths of time as the equivalent of a large-scale canvas, the material evokes the mechanics of trance music. The creative use of sound design and general choice of spartan aesthetics, albeit executed using acoustic instruments, emphasize styles club-inclined and tasteful. The overall effect is cinematic and mesmeric; a sonic documentation of a daydream unraveling. Although the music is emotionally gripping –defined by a dance-floor drive and a thick cinematic atmosphere –it's hard not to notice the craftsmanship and the skill level involved in bringing these songs to life. The song Folding Space, for example, is based on a pattern in 19/8 that turns around on the offbeat against the quarter note. Shipol, on the other hand, is predicated on constantly shifting piano, snare and bass drum accents, which make the song feel as if it were performed in 7/16, and not the standard 4/4 that it is. When asked to describe their music, the band came up with: “It falls somewhere between T.C. Boyle's prose and Tarkovsky's dream-like images." It makes sense! Because the point is not to wow listeners with technique, but to create an experience via deep affect.

Artist(s)

Nicolas Stocker (drums)

Born 1988 in Zurich. Composer, drummer and percussionist. Raised in a musicians family, he plays piano since the age of five and drums since the age of eleven. Bachelor of arts at ZHdK (2011). Afterwards studies in New York for several month with Jim Black, Mark Giuliana, Kendrick Scott and Dan Weiss. 2011-2013 Master in music education at ZHdK and studies in composition with Felix Profos. 2012 career award of the Friedl-Wald Stiftung. At the moment 'Master Jazz Performance' studies at HSLU with Gerry Hemingway, Norbert Pfammatter and Pascal Pons.  Leader of his own Band 'Bells for Pony' and Co-Leader of 'Marylane'. Work with a.o. with Chris Wiesendanger, Dominique Girod, Martin Baumgartner, Florian Favre and Florian Egli. He is band member...
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Born 1988 in Zurich. Composer, drummer and percussionist. Raised in a musicians family, he plays piano since the age of five and drums since the age of eleven. Bachelor of arts at ZHdK (2011). Afterwards studies in New York for several month with Jim Black, Mark Giuliana, Kendrick Scott and Dan Weiss. 2011-2013 Master in music education at ZHdK and studies in composition with Felix Profos. 2012 career award of the Friedl-Wald Stiftung. At the moment "Master Jazz Performance" studies at HSLU with Gerry Hemingway, Norbert Pfammatter and Pascal Pons. Leader of his own Band "Bells for Pony" and Co-Leader of "Marylane". Work with a.o. with Chris Wiesendanger, Dominique Girod, Martin Baumgartner, Florian Favre and Florian Egli. He is band member of "Betapartner", "Ursina", "Philipp Eden Trio" und "Janett´s Jazzmusikbaukasten".

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Urs Müller (guitar)

Composer(s)

Nicolas Stocker (drums)

Born 1988 in Zurich. Composer, drummer and percussionist. Raised in a musicians family, he plays piano since the age of five and drums since the age of eleven. Bachelor of arts at ZHdK (2011). Afterwards studies in New York for several month with Jim Black, Mark Giuliana, Kendrick Scott and Dan Weiss. 2011-2013 Master in music education at ZHdK and studies in composition with Felix Profos. 2012 career award of the Friedl-Wald Stiftung. At the moment 'Master Jazz Performance' studies at HSLU with Gerry Hemingway, Norbert Pfammatter and Pascal Pons.  Leader of his own Band 'Bells for Pony' and Co-Leader of 'Marylane'. Work with a.o. with Chris Wiesendanger, Dominique Girod, Martin Baumgartner, Florian Favre and Florian Egli. He is band member...
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Born 1988 in Zurich. Composer, drummer and percussionist. Raised in a musicians family, he plays piano since the age of five and drums since the age of eleven. Bachelor of arts at ZHdK (2011). Afterwards studies in New York for several month with Jim Black, Mark Giuliana, Kendrick Scott and Dan Weiss. 2011-2013 Master in music education at ZHdK and studies in composition with Felix Profos. 2012 career award of the Friedl-Wald Stiftung. At the moment "Master Jazz Performance" studies at HSLU with Gerry Hemingway, Norbert Pfammatter and Pascal Pons. Leader of his own Band "Bells for Pony" and Co-Leader of "Marylane". Work with a.o. with Chris Wiesendanger, Dominique Girod, Martin Baumgartner, Florian Favre and Florian Egli. He is band member of "Betapartner", "Ursina", "Philipp Eden Trio" und "Janett´s Jazzmusikbaukasten".

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Urs Müller (guitar)

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