Description
The Moritz Von Oswald Trio operates at the bleeding edges where musical lineages collide. Feeling for the shared heartbeat that pulses through dub, techno and jazz, it seeks out points of contact before exploding them outward into hypnotic explorations of rhythm, texture and tone. After two previous studio albums and one live album on Honest Jon's, the Trio — Moritz von Oswald, Max Loderbauer (NSI / Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay / Luomo) — returns with Fetch.
Fetch further cements the Moritz Von Oswald Trio's status as a unique voice in modern electronic music — as supple, intuitive and alive as the most exploratory of jazz. Recorded in August 2011, Fetch finds von Oswald, Loderbauer and Ripatti in a darker and more driving mood than on previous albums.
As with their previous recordings, at the roots of the Trio's third studio album lie the same concerns which informed von Oswald's pioneering work with Mark Ernestus as Basic Channel, Maurizio and Rhythm & Sound. Many of the sonic signatures persist — silvery clouds of reverb; heavily effected dub chords; the
grounding rumble of sub 8208;bass; motifs repeated and twisted to every angle. Yet Fetch is an altogether more ambitious vision than anything the Trio has released to date.