Forensic Trio - 137CD (2022) | Martin Archer, Pat Thomas, Johnny Hunter

Forensic Trio - 137CD (2022)

by Martin Archer, Pat Thomas, Johnny Hunter

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1.	Rotten Start 10:33 video	buy track
2.	Improvisation In Traditional Form 03:53	buy track
3.	Heartless, Heartless / Rotten State 25:04	buy track
4.	Rotten Star 09:42 video	buy track

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"Heartless is austere but compelling free improv......and the ethos is mostly sparse, featuring smaller sounds. For much of the album Thomas plays piano inside and outside simultaneously, while Hunter taps at a reduced kit plus small handheld instruments. Archer plays saxophones without grandstanding. His sopranino has a shrill immediacy. "Improvisation In Traditional Form", with its occasional bluesy hints, is a brief energetic interlude to the general entropy. Downbeat titles imply a dystopian release for our times." - Andy Hamilton, THE WIRE

An investigation into some smaller sounds and interactions from this new trio, plus a few excursions into more expansive territory. All of the music was improvised and performed as heard, apart from the coda of the closing track Rotten Star which is a collage. Heartless, Heartless…… / Rotten State edits together, in alternation, parts of two separate longer improvisations.

Pat plays grand piano interior and keyboard simultaneously for much of the album, while Johnny responds with sounds from a stripped back kit plus little handheld instruments. As well as laptop, I play the Eb family of saxophones here – sopranino, alto and baritone – which in my hands seek to avoid any element of the grandstanding or machismo sometimes, perhaps unavoidably, associated (at least to my ear) with the Bb instruments.

My rather downbeat titles for these pieces were thought up before the events of 2022, and it is even sadder how more appropriate they have become in the months between recording and release. Nevertheless, please find some sounds to enjoy here. – Martin Archer.

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released July 1, 2022

Martin Archer - electronics, alto, sopranino & baritone saxophones
Pat Thomas - piano
Johnny Hunter - drums, percussion, glockenspiel

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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