Trio Riot receive two nominations for Danish Jazz Awards.

Friday, October 24, 2014

The international group Trio Riot, signed to Manchester's Efpi record label have been twice nominated in this year?s prestigious Danish Music Awards Jazz category. Press release attached.

We have received the following announcement from Efpi Records;

Trio Riot receive two nominations for Danish Jazz Awards

Efpi are enormously proud to announce that Trio Riot have twice been nominated in this year’s prestigious Danish Music Awards Jazz. The band are up for New Danish Act of the Year and their eponymous debut album is one of the nominees for the Special Release of the Year, resulting in Trio Riot being one of only three acts to receive more than one nomination across the awards’ 5 categories. The awards ceremony will be held on 24th November in Copenhagen.

A hard-hitting Anglo-Danish-Swiss punk-jazz outfit, Trio Riot consists of Mette Rasmussen (DK) on alto saxophone, Sam Andreae (UK) on tenor saxophone and drummer David Meier (CH). Each of the three band members are emerging on the thriving Northern European improv and experimental music scene in their own right, and the trio will be familiar to audiences across Europe having toured in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and England since forming in Helsinki in 2009.

Released on Efpi Records earlier this year, Trio Riot’s debut album brings together the energy of the 1980s British punk scene, an approach to sound inspired by Ornette Coleman, and compositional techniques and ideas from 20th century classical composers such as B?la Bartók. Other influences cited by the band include The Thing, Jim Black, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton and Sonic Youth.

QUOTES;

“When something like Trio Riot comes along it feels totally refreshing, giving a new lease of life to one’s enthusiasm for jazz as an adventurous art. They play with such verve, incisiveness, conviction and sheer enjoyment that everything they do sounds fresh and immediate” BBC Music Magazine *****

“There’s more stored energy on this record than the contents of a warehouse full of Red Bull” Stephen Graham, Marlbank ****

“Any band that manages to sound like a collision of The Stooges, Captain Beefheart, Albert Ayler and the Art Ensemble Chicago is all right by me” Jazzwise

BIOGRAPHIES:

Mette Rasmussen
Mette Rasmussen is a Danish saxophone player based in Trondheim. She works in the field of improvised music, drawing from a wide range of influences. Her playing spans from 50s free jazz to textural sound work, exploring the natural rawness of her instrument as well as experimenting with new ways of sound and timbre of the saxophone. Mette has collaborated with musicians such as Rudi Mahall, Wilbert de Jode, Pat Thomas, Alan Silva & Chris Corsano.

Sam Andreae
Sam Andreae is a musician active as an improviser and composer in the UK and Scandinavia. Currently living in Manchester, Sam approaches improvisation through the exploration of sound and abstract noise, developing extended uses of the saxophone both acoustically and through electronic augmentation. Sam’s other groups include Silence Blossoms, Strikethrough Me & You, Andreae/Birchall/Cheetham and Andreae/Lash/Ull?n.
http://www.samandreae.com

David Meier
David Meier is a Swiss drummer based in Z?rich. His playing is very much influenced by traditional jazz from the 50’s and 60’s, but has always been shaped crucially by rock, free improvisation, contemporary classical and pop music. David has toured across Europe, Russia, China and Japan with bands including Schnellertollermeier, Things to Sounds, LEON, Day & Taxi and his own quintet Hunter-Gatherer, a vehicle for his work as a composer.
http://www.d-meier.ch

Efpi Records
Based in Manchester, Efpi is both an independent record label and an umbrella organisation working to promote the activities of an emerging generation of musicians working across all areas of contemporary jazz, improvised and experimental music. Formed in 2009 by Sam Andreae, Ben Cottrell and Anton Hunter to bring together their various projects under a single banner, Efpi quickly expanded from its Manchester roots and now works closely with an ever growing number of musicians hailing from all over Europe and based across the UK and Scandinavia. Efpi artists include Beats & Pieces Big Band, Let Spin, Trio Riot, Silence Blossoms and the Anton Hunter Trio.
http://www.efpirecords.com