Malaby/Dumoulin/Ber

Tony Malaby (Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias’ Open Loose, Fred Hersch, Tim Berne, Kris Davis), Jozef Dumoulin (Lidlboj, Octurn, The Red Hill Orchestra with Dan Weiss & Ellery Eskelin, Plug & Pray with Benoît Delbecq) and Samuel Ber (KARTET, Pentadox, Benoît Delbecq & The Multiplexers, Michael Attias, Bo Van Der Werf Mantra Magnets, Soet Kempeneer Trio) explore a music made of flow, pulses, textures, angles, memory, rotations, distances, intentions, proliferations, territories, speeds, changes of scale, and intervals. Their taste for playfulness pushes them to redefine the music at every moment, which is reflected in the recording process of the new album.

Their new album was recorded at three different locations: at the music festival Jazzdor in Strasbourg, in a studio and at a private venue, both in Paris.

“The concert in Paris wasn’t supposed to be recorded, but an hour before it started, my intuition told me that I should ask a friend to bring a recorder, so I did. The other recordings were done professionally, so the third one has a different sound color and quality. I had a lot of fun editing them together, switching between the three sources and manipulating the sound a tiny bit. I think my approach was more closely related to movie editing, concerning the overall structure”, says Samuel Ber, who composed all the tracks.

With confidence, openness and patience, the trio navigates through composed and improvised sections. The result has the dynamic of a never-ending stream of consciousness, as a reviewer at the Klaeng Festival wrote in March.

Their first album, Maps & Synecdoches, was released in 2018 to raving reviews. With their second album, dubbed Trees on Wheels, the trio builds on the foundations, the ideas and creative processes laid out by the first outing. This album will be released in 2025.