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Live at Alchemia

by Riverloam Trio

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Cloud Store/Hard Snore 14:03
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Vegetal Execution 11:25
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Metal Taste/Dedicated to Johannes Bauer 11:52
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Exercises in Water 07:55
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One For Bad Ola 14:24
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Final Sitting/Hair Burn 05:54

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All About Jazz, by JOHN SHARPE, January 12, 2019

Recorded at Krakow's legendary jazz club, Live At The Alchemia constitutes the third outing from what has become a perfectly-balanced unit, following the eponymous Riverloam Trio. Although, traditionally, Polish reedman Mikolaj Trzaska might be seen as the apex of a musical pyramid, supported by the solid foundation provided by the British pairing of bassist Olie Brice and drummer Mark Sanders, in actuality this is more of an equilateral triangle in which each of the parts assumes equal importance.

One of Poland's most accomplished improvisers, Trzaska has featured alongside American multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee on the excellent Magic (Not Two, 2009), and with reedman Ken Vandermark's Resonance Ensemble, as well as leading over 40 dates under his own name. Brice and Sanders, both high profile stalwarts of the UK scene, amount to an in-demand rhythm section in their own right, fuelling the likes of saxophonists Tobias Delius and Rachel Musson.

They unite on six installments of audacious free jazz culled from live performance. An emotionally-direct player, Trzaska brings something of Peter Brötzmann's raw energy to the alto saxophone, by turns vibrant, urgent, astringent, and passionate, as he develops reiterated throaty vibrato-laden figures into incandescent streams. But he also possesses a more nuanced side which he reveals during passages like the delicate percolating multiphonics at the start of "Vegetal Execution," while the command of melody and rhythm central to his expression is nowhere more obvious than on "Exercises In Water."

Brice alternates between counterpoint and pulse, but wields his bow for an outstanding solo shaded by finely-judged silences between phrases in "Vegetal Execution." Meanwhile, Sanders supplies momentum-filled timbral variation. Together they enjoy a near telepathic connection, where they know what each other is likely to do almost before it happens. Just listen to how Sanders instantaneously uses a chiming cymbal strike to mark the bassist's switch from robust pizzicato to rasping arco during a lovely reflective interlude on the otherwise fiery "Cloud Store/Hard Snore."

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released June 30, 2018

Mikołaj Trzaska - alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Olie Brice - double bass
Mark Sanders - drums

All songs composed by trio Trzaska/Sanders/Brice
Recorded Rafał Drewniany during concert at Alchemia, Kraków in 13 July 2017

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