Torque Trio will appear on the Dutch tv show Vrije Geluiden. The show was recorded in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and features two performances of the trio and an interview with Koen Schalkwijk. Don’t miss it!
Violiste en creatieve duizendpoot Tessa Zoutendijk verbindt dit seizoen Arnhem en Nijmegen, bladmuziek en geïmproviseerde muziek en publiek en artiest met elkaar. “We gooien het idee van ‘publiek-zit-op-stoel-en-luistert-naar-band-die-speelt’ om.”
Geert Jan Dijkerman en Maarten Zaagman op marimba gaan naast én met Koen Schalkwijk’s Torque Trio in een spannend dubbelconcert de uitdaging aan om elkaar muzikaal te ontmoeten. Op de marimba’s staat de procesmuziek a la Steve Reich centraal: Phase shifting. Het Torque Trio schitterde al eerder bij het Lindenberg Productiehuis. “Een trio om met bovengemiddelde aandacht in de gaten te houden!”, volgens Jazzflits. Hoe klinken deze ogenschijnlijk verschillende werelden, modern klassiek en jazz, met elkaar?
“Through the sporadic use of repetitive motives by Schalkwijk, the rock groove infused drums by Duijkers and the ostinato groove by Polligkeit, a flow emerges which it is hard to escape from. A piano trio full of variety, individuality and depth.”Jazzthetik
“The Dutch/German trio Torque is not the only ensemble to further develop the e.s.t. concept, but it is one of the most convincing. In the music of Torque, harmonies derived from the Romantic period are combined with frequently repeated musical cells as known in minimal music or in rock music in the form of guitar riffs. And jazz is forming the framework to all of those heterogeneous elements. The debut album ‘Forward’ sounds as if the musicians were veterans already. There is no boasting or virtuosic showing off as often heard on first albums. Torque works on their concept to play modern jazz that sounds beautious in spite of all the complexity.”JazzNow (SR2)
Here are some videos from the show we played at the Mahlerei in Arnhem on october 18.
