 Tony Malaby, Jozef Dumoulin and Samuel Ber explore music made of flow, pulses, textures, angles, memory, rotations, distances, intentions, proliferations, territories, speeds, changes of scale, intervals. Their taste for playfulness pushes them to redefine the music at every moment. [Synecdoche : A figure of speech that consists in taking the part for the whole. Example: a sail for a ship.] Samuel Ber’s compositions are similar to synecdoche: the imaginary territories they offer to the trio are in reality only fragments of a larger and deeper vision that the trio, through improvisation, creates, reveals and plays with in real time.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, I had a sort of intuition 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. As with the first album we released, I had a lot of fun editing them together, switching between the three sources and manipulating the sound a tiny bit. Concerning the overall structure, I think my approach was more closely related to movie editing", says Samuel Ber, who wrote all the compositions. With confidence, openness and patience, the trio navigates through composed and improvised sections. The result has the dynamic of a never-ending stream ofconsciousness, as a reviewer at the Klaeng Festival wrote in March 2024.
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