The album opens with the upbeat and joyful Strom (meaning stream, current or flow), the catchy The Blank Canvas Part 1 features guitarist James Muller and enhances the albums sense of journey and movement as we set out on our Fact Finding Mission with the trio. The delicate and captivating Lullaby, was written by Parker for his sons. The title track is the most abstract work on the album and utilizes samples, bowed distorted bass, a range of Chinese gongs and other sounds to achieve its chaotic effect. The second track on the album to be inspired by the band’s children, the playful Song For EV, was written for Foran’s daughter and has a delightful rhythmic suppleness. On Civil Unrest (featuring guitarist James Muller and percussionist Tunji Beier) angular melodies and abstract harmonies meld with spacious free improvisations. While The Brook is all about rhythm; contrasting the idea of a dark intense bass groove with a delicate sparse melody. The captivating, rhythmic The Blank Canvas Part 2 transports us through to the beautiful Brick By Brick, which features DVA (Tunji Beier on percussion and Linsey Pollak on reeds) and draws on Eastern European folk melodies alongside modern jazz harmonic movements and freely improvised elements. Pollak’s reeds weave in and out of the trio sounds with Beier’s percussion adding another layer of rhythmic complexity. Dense, but melodically clear, it's a beautiful closer to the album with its sense of melodic finality and earthy folk ideas. It’s this blend of earthy rhythms, beautiful melodies and the freedom of jazz that makes Trichotomy’s Fact Finding Mission so worth joining!
FACT FINDING MISSION is available on CD, Download (incl. Hi Def), VINYL and score book. Click HERE for storereleased 04 February 2013
Sean Foran - piano
John Parker - drums
Pat Marchisella - bass
with special guests:
James Muller - Guitar - Tracks 2/6/8
Linsey Pollak - Reeds - Track 9
Tunji Beier - Percussion - Tracks 6/9
Produced by Trichotomy
Recorded by Chris Vallejo at Linear Recording Sydney July 16-20 2012
Mixed by Chris Vallejo & John Parker at Linear Recording
Mastered by Dave Gardner at Magneto Mastering Minneapolis
Art Direction and design by Paul Underwood
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 7-9 composed by S Foran
Tracks 3, 4, 6 composed by J Parker
All tracks arranged by Trichotomy