Troyka, by Troyka

Troyka

by Troyka

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Steven Smith next level shit for sure. weird and wild. so tight in the pocket, good ideas. creative! Favorite track: Cajoch.

Deidre House The first words that come to mind when trying to describe this modern jazz trio are "weird" and "crazy". Those are very good things, here. Favorite track: Cajoch.

Steve Lawson proof that the UK is producing some of the most interesting jazz-ish music on the planet. This is really wonderful. Equal parts grooving, melodic, spiky and enthralling.

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1.	Tax Return 04:05	buy track
2.	Clint 06:12	buy track
3.	140 01:35	buy track
4.	Golden 04:57	buy track
5.	Bear 04:52	buy track
6.	Cajoch 02:40	buy track
7.	Twelve 03:58	buy track
8.	Born in the 80s 06:56	buy track
9.	Noonian Song 05:37	buy track
10.	Call 02:20	buy track
11.	Zeitgeist 01:45	buy track

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Troyka are Chris Montague, Joshua Blackmore and Kit Downes, three young musicians based in London whose intense live shows have seen them hotly tipped to follow in the foot steps of Polar Bear and Portico Quartet and become the next young band to explode from the capital’s fertile jazz scene. A multi-textured trio with a febrile imagination where no role is pre-defined, their music twists and mutates in an ongoing dialogue inspired by a shared love of Aphex Twin, the angular world of iconclastic New York saxophonist Tim Berne and the blues-jazz-rock groove of legendary Steely Dan and Billy Cobham guitarist Wayne Krantz. With their visceral mash-up of rock, jazz and dance music, Trokya sound more like Tony William’s Lifetime remix by Burial than the classic hammond organ trio. But then that’s the point, they’re part of a new generation of young musicians who refuse to be constrained by the old boundaries.

To whom the old question of ‘what is it’ is replaced by ‘is it any good’? Troyka live in a post hip-hop world where you can take whatever source materials you like and do your own singular thing with it. Recorded by noted engineer Robert Harder (Acoustic Ladyland, Babyshambles, Brian Eno etc), Troyka’s self-titled debut distills the essence of the bands intense live shows in to a finely focused album.

From the elemental groove of Tax Return, to the slide-driven throb of Clint, sly groove of Noonian Song, shimmering, tricksy Twelve and the twisted beauty and carefully calibrated mayhem of Born in the ‘80s, it perfectly nails the bands dark-toned lyricism, shape-shifting grooves and intense improvisational power. Play Troyka loud, they won’t let you down.

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released June 29, 2009

CHRIS MONTAGUE guitar / loops
KIT DOWNES organ
JOSHUA BLACKMORE drums

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6,7,8,9 and 11 by Chris Montague and tracks 4, 5 and 10 by Kit Downes
Produced by Troyka
Executive Producer Dave Stapleton
Recorded by Robert Harder at Harder Sounds on 14th and 15th Oct 2008 and 6th April 2009
Mixed and mastered by Robert Harder at Harder Sounds, London in November 2008 and April 2009

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