Avant-Garde Jazz
United States
Tropos
Tropos का परिचय
होमटाउन
Brooklyn, NY, United States
जन्म तिथि
2018
शैली
Avant-Garde Jazz
Brooklyn-based Tropos is an avant-jazz ensemble whose sound and original music are grounded by a boundary-pushing spirit; they describe it as "outerspace chamber music." The identifying characteristics of Tropos' sound are found in the egalitarian spirit of humor, high energy, extreme dynamics, and an abundance of textural contrast combined with sudden radical shifts in time and mode, as they bridge the voices of the soloist with the collective's.
The founding members of Tropos -- whose current lineup features Phillip Golub (piano), Ledah Finck (violin), Yuma Uesaka (clarinets), and Aaron Edgcomb (drums/percussion) -- got together in 2018; all five were studying at Boston's New England Conservatory. They were part of what began as a larger ensemble under the guidance of guitarist Joe Morris. Their shared commitment was born of a common fascination with the groundbreaking music of composers such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and, in particular, Anthony Braxton.
Tropos issued its debut album in the spring of 2020 on Biophilia. Entitled Axioms // 75 AB, it juxtaposed original compositions inspired by Braxton with half-a-dozen of his own tunes (rarely explored outside his recordings). Tropos chose pieces culled from his influential recordings of the early to mid-'70s. Axioms // AB was issued a week before Braxton's 75th birthday. In 2023, they received Chamber Music America's Ensemble Forward grant, spending a year developing their album Switches (Endectomorph Music) under the mentorship of Darius Jones. ~ Thom Jurek
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