Pauli Lyytinen, Petter Eldh, and Christian Lillinger have each built formidable reputations across some of Europe's most restless jazz projects, but Punkt.Vrt.Plastik finds them operating as something closer to a single organism than three collaborators. Kompress pushes their collective language further into abstraction without ever losing the visceral, conversational intensity that makes this trio genuinely thrilling to follow.
Following two electrifying studio albums and a live recording, the ""supergroup-three musicians who are among the most exciting and active that the European avant-garde has to offffer"" (Jazzthetik) presents another thrilling album Kompress. Hailed by critics as genre-bending and described as an avant-garde force within the jazz piano trio format, the group opens up a wide range of associative spaces and impressively demonstrates how a working band, through deep trust and the resulting fearlessness, can continue to evolve and explore new musical paths. Ulrich Stock writes in the liner notes: ""This is what I find most fascinating about this album: the now. This music is totally now: alert, full of nervous energy, multiple perspectives. But in every pore lives the past. It is there, part of it, finely dispersed, dissolved, transcended"" and adds: ""Till just then I would still have interpreted the album title Kompress to mean condensed, which certainly fits: the world in a disk. But now I read it as a compress, something cushioning a wound, which helps ease the pain of the damage inflicted by present-day assaults.""
UPC: 7640120194543
Label: Intakt Records
Release Date: 9.11.26
Format: CD