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20 May 2006 : Strongly Recommended
This debut CD is a showcase of the NZ Trio’s concerted vim and its mastery of a wide style range from six New Zealand composers all in their thirties. The contagious Greek rhythms in John Psathas’s three Island Songs earned it an encore when launched here. Gareth Farr’s Ahi is “in extreme contrast to anything I have written before”. Ergo its arresting uniqueness.
Of the four lesser-known works, Michael Norris’s dirty pixels is the finest. It abjures euphony for “roughness, raggedness and dirtied” sound. His selectively culled dissonances are placed into a pointillistic soundscape and propelled by varied rhythmic invention.
In Victoria Kelly’s Sono, three loud chords representing a dream are refracted into broken images of itself, showing the near impossibility of trying to restore the dream once interrupted by awakening.
Strongly recommended.
Ian Dando - New Zealand Listener
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