"A" TRIO
The Binding Third

Info

The Binding Third Part 1	18:32
The Binding Third Part 2	15:36

Musicians

"A" Trio
Mazen Kerbaj: Trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui: Acoustic Guitar
Raed Yassin: Double Bass

Music by Kerbaj, Yassin, Sehnaoui.
Recorded live by Iztok Zupan at Sound Disobedience Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on March 3, 2019.
Mastered by Peter Koerfer.
Photography by Tony Elieh.

Description

[This album was released by German label Unrock in August 2022, under catalog number Unrock LP024. The text below is taken from the release page on Unrock's website]

"The legendary Lebanese trio of trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj (Karkhana, Johnny Kafta), guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui (Calamita, Karkhana, Johnny Kafta ) and bassist Raed Yassin (Praed, Praed Orchestra) celebrates its 20th anniversary with "The Binding Third" on Unrock.
They create acoustic improvised drones that range from insistent, chiming resonances with emergency alarm bells, to low, thrumming hums with growing intensity. Avoiding conventional technique, A Trio creates sounds using motorized devices to generate rattling, metallic vibrations, building a mechanistic backdrop out of which the instruments’ true voices occasionally arise.
This recording, taken at Sound Disobedience in Llubljana in 2019, reaches an exceptional electro-acoustic depth with strange sounds boiling down to a dark, heavy spiritual essence. Call it Acoustic-Industrial-Free-Jazz, or call it unrock."

Biography

Photo by Hans Van Der Linden

“A” Trio is a Lebanese improvisation group founded by Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Raed Yassin. Formed in 2002 in Beirut during the second Irtijal Festival of Experimental Music, the three musicians went on to record their first free jazz album entitled “ A ”. Their music later moved away from its jazz roots towards a more textural approach, relying strongly on prepared and extended techniques for a heavy diversion of their respective instruments. After working together in trio and various other contexts for many years, Kerbaj, Sehnaoui and Yassin reached a characteristic sound that has been fondly described as “textural swing.” Creative yet simple, acoustic yet powerful, their live performances are playful and rely on a strong visual component.

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