Tricycle - Zoom

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:00
Size: 148,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:16)  1. But Bout bought a boat
(5:47)  2. Cherbourg
(5:20)  3. Craft
(4:35)  4. Oakland
(2:43)  5. Wekka
(3:22)  6. Ugo
(7:07)  7. Zoom
(8:14)  8. Symphony for E.L. (in memory of Eva Leirman)
(3:37)  9. Glüpsül
(3:27) 10. Happy Sam
(4:54) 11. Still
(5:50) 12. Photographer
(3:42) 13. Welgezind

Tuur Florizoone chromatic accordion; Philippe Laloy soprano and alto saxophone, bass flute; Vincent Noiret double bass recorded: June 2019, Studio des Rameurs released: November 11, 2019 label: Aventura Music number of pieces: 13 duration: 64'00 website: aventuramusica.be/tricycle by: Georges Tonla Briquet Tricycle exists twenty years. No remixes, special edition with outtakes or a 'best of' to celebrate this anniversary, but simply thirteen new songs. Accordionist Tuur Florizoone, saxophonist Philippe Laloy and double bassist Vincent Noiret continue to make music in their early twenties and tour extensively through Flanders and the Netherlands with this program. Tricycle has released three CDs so far. The last in line, 'Queskia?', Dates from 2011.

Since then it has been an eventful period for Florizoone. He continued his musical globetrotter life on various fronts, such as in Eric Vloeimans' Oliver's Cinema, Didier Laloy & Tuur Florizoone, and with Claron McFadden, but also became a father twice. All this yielded material for thirteen new compositions. Musically there are no noticeable changes. The combination of chromatic accordion with double bass and alternating bass flute, soprano and alto saxophone still makes for very beautiful listening material. It is no surprise that Florizoone wrote music in the past for the films 'Aanvaart in Moscou' and 'Brasserie Romantiek'. Yet the three continue to surprise by the way in which they harmonize. Each title has a story. During the performances, Florizoone tells about the background with a quip but also with the necessary seriousness. You can also enjoy 'Zoom' unrestrained by using your own imagination and making up your own cursive with titles such as 'Welgezind', 'Happy Sam', 'Cherbourg' or 'Photographer'. We can already say that the latter is a reference to the Belgian Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert, whose extremely bright street scene decorates the cover. Due to the visual language, 'Zoom' closely matches the work of (film) composers such as Nino Rota, Yann Tiersen and Eleni Karaindrou. Also a special view on the unbearable lightness of the musician's existence. A more than pleasant rebirth with this top Belgian trio, consisting of a Flemish, a Walloon and a Brussels resident. http://www.jazzenzo.nl/?e=4362

Zoom

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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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Tricycle - King Size

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:29
Size: 134,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:40)  1. 4 & 3 + 4
(3:31)  2. Belly Button
(5:07)  3. Silvana's Dream
(5:32)  4. Epilogue
(5:30)  5. 3 Pinguins on a Sunday Afternoon
(3:44)  6. Tupyzinho
(6:13)  7. Tribute to Vissotsky
(4:52)  8. Pas Ce Soir, Je Suis Crevé
(5:35)  9. Le Mystère du Petit Sac Noir
(6:25) 10. Ode à Lydie
(6:15) 11. Rustic

The cat which illustrates the cover of the disc is probably not there by chance. Tricycle takes us on a journey with the agility and finesse of a feline. With this group, we travel through different countries, different atmospheres of jazz tinged with Slavic, Latin or imaginary folklore music. Throughout this journey, while fragile and sometimes unspoken, the breath of the accordion by Tuur Florizoone is rightly mixed with that of the viola or soprano by Philippe Laloy . And as if to stay the course, the warm and enveloping bass from Vincent Noiret is the third essential wheel of this tricycle. For this second album, the trio this time took on a few traveling companions (hence the title King Size ) who are not one to slow down the cart: Laurent Blondiau (Mäâk's Spirit, Octurn, Rackham…) at the trumpet and flugelhorn, Stephan Pougin (Phinc, Rêve d'Eléphant Orchestra…) with volatile percussion and Brazilian-born guitarist Victor Da Costa . We pass from light and joyful moments, which promise a carefree perspective ("4 & 3 + 4"), to clearly darker moments. "Epilogue" for example, with a heavy and desolate atmosphere, suggests the delicate marriage of the sax and the trumpet in a song of extreme restraint. 

From this meditation escape piano notes which fall like tears that cannot be held back. Between nonchalance and lively slowness, Tricycle has a sense of simple happiness and flexible rhythm. The slow and melancholic waltz of "Belly Button", which evokes a tired fun fair inspired by an Italian neo-realistic film, echoes the malicious "Not tonight, I'm exhausted" ... Here, it is the double bass that has the hangover. The theme hesitates between going dancing or resigning itself to staying in bed. Da Costa's guitar, with slightly South American accents, and the accordion are trying to get this little world out of a soft torpor. 

Our little band then pays a beautiful tribute to Trovesi and Coscia by taking "Tribute To Vissotsky" where the twirling soprano by Laloy exchanges winks with an accordion with a deep voice. Detour also on the side of Central America with "Tupyzinho" who races like a sarabande, this time taken by a flute and Pougin's percussions. Of course, dreaming is part of the journey with "3 Pinguins On A Sunday Afternoon" and especially "Sylvana's Dream" where a light, sensual and lunar saxophone resounds. All these melodies advance in hushed steps, between perpetual folklore and jazz which does not say its name. Tricycle is not cluttered with labels and only takes emotion with it as luggage. And it's already a lot. https://www.citizenjazz.com/Tricycle.html

Personnel: Yuur Florizoone (acc, p), Philippe Laloy (ss, as, fl), Vincent Noiret (b), Laurent Blondiau (tp, bugle), Victor Da Costa (g), Stephan Pougin (perc, dm)

King Size

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