2011 release ** "The leitmotiv of this release signed by the Koln-based trio made up of Matthias Muche - talented trombonist and active media artist -, Philip Zoubek - inventive Austrian pianist, who likes to alter his instrument's timbre...what is known as prepared piano - and Achim Tang - experienced bass and double-bass player whose artistic path is rich of relevant collaborations including the ones with Oskar Aichinger, Wolfgang Pusching and dZihan & Kamien, a notorious duo for jazzy disco and so called downtempo house - seems to be the most antithetical explorations of improvisational music. The decision of leaving their 5 sessions untitled could suggest their will of leaving their music outside any possible conceptualization or "semantics", so that these excerpts could be described just for their tympanic exposition and their style and these three musical voices could sound both fused into sonic creatures which turn them almost undistinguashable and considerably isolated: the amalgamation is quite clear in the first two excerpts, being the first one a sort of 10 minutes lasting tuning where in spite of the slow tonal pitching and slight modulations emitted frequencies rarely emerges from the homogeneous melodic layers and the second an almost disturbing percussive ragbag, a mechanical rattle which sounds so noisy that makes really difficult to isolate each instrument - some of you could jump from their seat for the sudden change of range from almost silent tones to such a clashing noise...some nice spells casted on the mix! -. In the following excerpts, it's easier to appreciate musical individualities - I particularly appreciated Zoubek's prepared piano which is able to evoke some shinto ritual's atmosphere with intriguing damped hits and Muche's gasping blows in trombone's telescopic slides in the third one as well the general performative obliqueness of the fourth excerpt -, before the return to the initial tonal uniformity in the final recording, which seems to close the circles after these musicians opened them in order to cast some spells."