Simon Popp is back on Squama with his fourth album Trio.
At its heart, Trio is a work about collaboration, playfulness and
uni fi cation. It is music as a means of coming together, a sonic
equivalent to the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi, in which broken
ceramics are repaired with a visible golden lacquer. Rather than hiding
the breaks, Kintsugi embraces them, making them part of the story, a
form of delicate transformation. Popp and his collaborators Flurin Mück
and Sebastian Wolfgruber take a similar approach: three distinct
drummers, three di ff erent temperaments, three personal styles. Fused
together into a single expressive instrument.
The album is a celebration of timbre, texture, and touch, its sound
palette drawn from across continents and traditions. Human beings at
all points of time, across all cultures and continents have used music to
celebrate, mourn, worship and bond. Along with our voices, creating
rhythm with our bodies. Clapping, stomping, hitting with sticks. A
celebration of rhythm as both a shared human memory and an audible
expression of close bonds.
Trio is a re fl ection of the beauty of imperfection and the timeless pull of
rhythm as a shared human force. The cracks are not hidden. They are
fi lled with gold.
Simon Popp is back on Squama with his fourth album Trio.
At its heart, Trio is a work about collaboration, playfulness and
uni fi cation. It is music as a means of coming together, a sonic
equivalent to the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi, in which broken
ceramics are repaired with a visible golden lacquer. Rather than hiding
the breaks, Kintsugi embraces them, making them part of the story, a
form of delicate transformation. Popp and his collaborators Flurin Mück
and Sebastian Wolfgruber take a similar approach: three distinct
drummers, three di ff erent temperaments, three personal styles. Fused
together into a single expressive instrument.
The album is a celebration of timbre, texture, and touch, its sound
palette drawn from across continents and traditions. Human beings at
all points of time, across all cultures and continents have used music to
celebrate, mourn, worship and bond. Along with our voices, creating
rhythm with our bodies. Clapping, stomping, hitting with sticks. A
celebration of rhythm as both a shared human memory and an audible
expression of close bonds.
Trio is a re fl ection of the beauty of imperfection and the timeless pull of
rhythm as a shared human force. The cracks are not hidden. They are
fi lled with gold.
