Description
'Ergo's music is also rooted in jazz...fused with electronica and a distinct avant-garde feel. ...quite beautiful and moving...a bit like Sigur Ros meeting Sun Ra uptown.' – Terrascope
'This is music that evolves slowly, almost imperceptibly; yet for all its freedom, there's no shortage of structure...Sroka takes a different approach to composition, one where improvisation and structure work hand-in-hand, each feeding the other.' – All About Jazz
BRETT SROKA - trombone, computer // SAM HARRIS - piano, prepared piano, Rhodes electric piano // SHAWN BALTAZOR - drums
With their embrace of open space and strategic use of silence, ERGO has honed an inviting improvisation-laced sound in his trio Ergo, an electro-acoustic group approach that often reveals astonishing, strangely beautiful and unexpected realms.
A seven-piece suite in which overlapping melodies, motifs and improvisations organically evolve into and out of the music's electronic elements, AS SUBTLE AS TOMORROW takes its name from a Emily Dickinson poem that can be reconstructed from the fragments and phrases borrowed as tune titles. Evocative and mysterious, playful and spiritually charged as a Zen koan, the music is inspired by the stark intensity and hymn-like clarity with which Dickenson considers and transcends thoughts of time and destiny.
Steeped in jazz and inspired by artists from Stockhausen, Xenakis, and Terry Riley to Sigur Ros and Aphex Twin, Sroka infuses Ergo's music with an improvisational ethos. Every acoustic and electronic sound takes place in real time, created as the trio plays together. The experience of performing the music in concert deeply informed the suite's development, and the music unfolds with its own interior logic.
Titles
01. as tomorrow
02. A warrant
03. As subtle
04. That never came
05. a conviction
06. Yet but
07. a name
Press
united mutations (EN · peter vanlaarhoven · 10/04/2016)
Ergo is an electroacoustic trio that has just released a new album. Their first release hails from 2006 (a private release on the Actuator Records label) while the more recent ones found a home at the Cuneiform Records label. The trio features Brett Sokra (trombone, electronics), Sam Harris (piano, keyboard), Shawn Baltazor (drums). "As Subtle As Tomorrow" is a search in which Ergo uses avant garde jazz, electronics and slightly moving melodic lines. The result is a beautiful voyage in sounds. "As Subtle As Tomorrow" takes its name from an Emily Dickenson poem. Actually, the poem can be reconstructed from the titles of the 7 compositions. As subtle as tomorrow That never came, A warrant, a conviction, Yet but a name. Even more impressive is the fact that the different pieces indeed sound very poetic, very mysterious. A remarkable concept with a beautiful result.
