Consumer Melt Trio

• 1Matter05:10
• 2Item 404:55
• 3Strategy Song05:51
• 4Elysian Minor04:13
• 5Disc On01:20
• 6Moon with Planet04:58
• 7Paul03:34
• 8Britten03:40
• 9Schimmer04:15
• 10Feeder06:31
• Total Runtime44:27

Info for Consumer

Since its formation in 2010, the Melt Trio around drummer Moritz Baumgärtner and the Meyer brothers Bernhard (bass) and Peter (guitar) has become one of the world's most innovative guitar trios in contemporary jazz

With their progressive and unique sound they inspire experts, music lovers and concertgoers at jazz festivals and club concerts around the globe - three times they have already been nominated for the ECHO JAZZ in their young career. After the critically acclaimed albums "Melt", "Hymnolia" and "Stroy", the long-awaited new album "Consumer" will be released on Fun In The Church/Bertus in November 2022

Stylistically: If you like Tortoise, Khruangbin, Bad Plus but also Philip Catherine or Marc Ribot, you can already look forward to one of the outstanding albums in November of this crisis-ridden year.

Peter Meyer, guitar, electronics
Bernhard Meyer, bass
Moritz Baumgärtner, drums, objects, gongs, megaphon

Melt Trio
Through many concerts together over the last years the Melt Trio has grown together to a unit, almost to a musical organism. From their great palette of ways of expression they unerringly and pointedly chose the right tone colors at the right time. Collaborations with Jan Bang, Tony Malaby, John Hollenbeck, Jim Black or Theo Bleckmann have further matured the three personalities. Quieter moments live from the nuances and the finely intertwined parts that continuously intensify and grow more acute or at other times are interspersed with abrupt expressions flashing up. The dynamics are wide, but seldom happen suddenly; instead they slowly swell up and down again. The individual pieces are reminiscent of a meandering river, at times contemplative, at other times whirled by rapids. The Melt Trio creates meditative as well as nearly ecstatic moods. Arcs of suspense develop because the music is always moving forward within the composition, as opposed to the very common turning in circles.

“… an ongoing variation on the guitar trio involving a highly personalized mixture of jazz, rock and atmospherics.” DownBeat Magazin“

“Unique, individual, absorbing and touching, spreading its wings like an albatross, so closely calling from a far distance.” Wolf Kampmann

„These melodies are of such compelling beauty, that they want to be heard again and again. And they are so catchy, that one believes to have known them for many years, exactly as if every sunrise emerged around these melodies.“ (Jazzthing)

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