It happens occasionally, a live session where each piece works as it is - almost intact with little in the way of remixing or truncation. This was one such session. There were, however, some technical issues when recording this, hence the reason for two performances of "Xerox Serum" - a first run that was going so well until disaster stuck. Okay, sort out the problem, and then do something almost unheard of in Triax session history - a second version! This framework of rising cosmic rotational pieces start and end the album on a surprising serene note. Between them we have two bigger works, heard in the reverse order to the session. "Feral Cosmos" mounts with Dave's industrial hurdy gurdy scuttling under a cascade of sound fragments and electronic tonalities. This all oozes and writhes as a swirling nebula of synths, guitar, indeterminable sounds. Displaced Reality features Dave on flute (not always sounding like flute by the way), and is on the whole a much more surreal excursion featuring lots of twisted voices and instrumental sounds, cascading guitars, pitch stepping and gyrating textures and more, all amounting to a strange movie of the mind! Finally we then return to the start, but his time go somewhere else!
credits
released August 15, 2018
Recorded live to digital at Tachyon Studio, Leicester 18 January 2016.
Transfer, editing and mix 4 February 2016.
Recorded and mixed by Alan Freeman.
Alan Freeman: laptop (VST synthesizers, Virtual Sampler, Granulab), Roland SH-32, guitar, Roland GR-33 guitar synthesizer.
Steve Freeman: synthesizers (Octave Cat, Korg MS-20, Yamaha CS5), loops, sounds, tapes, turntable, acoustic CD, bass guitar.
Dave Powell: hurdy-gurdy, flute, bells, effects.
Born out of the Extremities project, in a sense, in 2003 Triax couples Alto Stratus with the strangely processed hurdy-gurdy
of Dave Powell, for a unique new hybrid. Dave added many more instruments to his repertoire since, and Triax can vary from ambient drone, via systemic, dirge and raga/folk hybrids on to psychedelic rock, Krautrock and eclectic avant-garde....more
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