Tricycle - Orange for tea

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:10
Size: 128,4 MB
Art: Front

(1:07)  1. Intro Kater
(4:32)  2. Contamines, mon joie
(7:16)  3. Jouer au parc rouge
(5:07)  4. Moving on
(4:14)  5. Evinha, minha vizinha
(0:49)  6. SILVANA
(4:14)  7. Kater
(0:42)  8. L'homme marche droit
(5:32)  9. Then At Least
(3:44) 10. Tzygane
(1:35) 11. Stilte voor de storm
(3:39) 12. Bangkok ou ailleurs
(5:11) 13. Con Largos
(7:23) 14. Orange for tea

The Belgian trio Tricycle consists of Tuur Florizoone (accordion and piano), Philippe Laloy (sax and flute) and bassist Vincent Noiret, all former students at the Brussels conservatory. Seeing an opening to classify their music as "academic" is a little too easy. It soon becomes clear that the gentlemen are more concerned with musical charm than experimental ambition. With their characteristic line-up, their often nostalgic music floats sweetly between chanson and jazz without becoming curly. Catchy themes, clear structures and the emphasis on melody (sometimes beautifully harmlessly polyphonic) dominate. The arrangements go in so smoothly that subtle changes and carefully polyphonic passages glide effortlessly, with sax and accordion in particular snapping together and following each other.

This effortless, scattering effect is enhanced by an exact, chamber music-like interplay. Not exaggeratedly virtuoso, but all the more stylized, the three move in the tradition of entertainment music without parodying (themselves). The bass riffs are perfectly measured, the sax sound (mainly soprano sax) is wonderfully slightly lyrical and the accordion provides a spirited drive. The beautiful and the innocent are never tested, let alone broken. Because of this very balanced, but also climaxless, the CD can become too clean for some listeners.

Within the musical "modesty", however, the trio succeeds in eating from different, albeit close-together walls. For example, 'Con Largos' is drenched in a fado-like melancholy, as the 'hopla' rhythm of 'Tzygane' refers to the gypsy culture. With the walking bass line in 'Bangkok ou Ailleurs' salon jazz emerges, while the cautious and harmoniously misty piano part of 'Kater' (with a vocal contribution by Jessa Wildemeersch) could easily have escaped from an impressionistic song by Duparc.

With all these accessible references, it is almost inevitable that Tricycle flirts with kitsch here and there. Especially when Laloy switches from sax to flute in 'Evinha, Minha Vizinha', they really push the boundaries. The guys of Tricycle manage to stay on the tasteful side of the line. And that in itself is an achievement for those who get started with a combination of atmosphere and sentiment as loaded as Tricycle. Unpretentious entertainment? Possibly, but at least musical entertainment. Translate By Google http://www.kwadratuur.be/cdbesprekingen/detail/tricycle_-_orange_for_tea/#.XxHZSilKiUk

Personnel: Double Bass – Vincent Noiret; Piano, Accordion – Tuur Florizoone; Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute – Philippe Laloy

Orange for tea

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