"the trio create magical, evocative sounds that mix ancient and modern" (Andy Hamilton, The WIRE - UK)
"It's like listening to an audiobook without text." (Kraut Nick Magazin - DE)
"Radical and saturated with some kind of mystical atmosphere" JazzQuad (RU)
"Ash" - an archeomusicological study, depicting the imaginary music of the ancient cities of Knossos and Pompeii buried under ash. A very different side of AVA Trio.
POMPEII
“Gari Flos Scombri Scauri, the flower of garum, a product of Scaurus, the finest Garum of the empire,” mumbled old master Scaurus proudly gazing upon the shiny lettering on his workshop floor. It is here where he built an empire – on slowly bubbling fish guts, foul smell and salt wounds – as well as his villa, located just next to the factory despite much opposition [from family and servants? Or whom?]. “Thanks to this stench I shall be remembered for centuries to come,” he would often think to himself, comforting the torments of olfactory nature with vanity. But on this lazy October day, as he strolled from the atrium to the bath chambers, he began to question his choice. The smell was heavier, and no olibanum was sufficient to mask the putrid air in the estate. “All my limbs and senses grow nimble, yet my nose refuses to yield to time!” He thought. Maybe it was time to retire from Pompeii.
KNOSSOS
The Minoan priestess knew. There was a force waking up beneath her feet, just like the elders forewarned. The faint scent of sulphur began to fill the temple. Hoping to remember her childhood – for the oath she’s taken there she would never forget - she gazed south towards the great city of Knossos, now hidden under the bulging horizon. Sharp hiss hurts her ears, awakening her to the final rite, that would, in turn, awaken Mother Goddess herself. Perhaps she would not forsake Knossos.
Recorded at Limbo Studios - November 2021, Groningen
Mixed by Can Demren, Esat Ekincioglu
Mastered by Can Demren
Artwork cover by Samantha Pellarini (Ode to the Waddenzee)
Designed by Can Demren
Text by Esat Ekincioglu, Roma Kwiatkiewicz
Spontaneously composed and improvised by AVA Trio.
Produced by AVA Trio and TORA Records
Copyright Buma/Stemra
TORA records is an Amsterdam based independent label
founded by saxophonist, multi instrumentalist, composer Giuseppe Doronzo. Since 2018, TORA Records produces improvised music, jazz, electro acoustic music and non- western traditions....more
Simply amazing to hear a new album with Wadada and Ewart!! ...And Reed rounds out this trio beautifully.
Just gave it my first spin. Absolutely magical. jeffrey maurer