Thread, realized between Berlin in 2008 and 2009, brings together three like-minded experimentalists - Annette Krebs, Magda Mayas, and Anthea Caddy - with backgrounds in duo collaboration but fresh as a trio. Krebs’ prepared guitar, tapes, and mixing desk act as both generator and disruptor, her playful use of vocal fragments and sampled sounds adding surreal charge. Mayas’ piano - a hybrid of acoustic and prepared techniques - delivers hammered harmonics, inside-string tremors, and pulses of sustain, while Caddy’s cello rumbles, bows, and fractures, producing the kind of amplified cracks and extended gestures that make every grain of sound vivid.

Across two tracks - one recorded live, one in-studio - sound assumes a porous, composite form: rusted colors, overlapping micro-events, and moments of raw surprise. The group never chases melodic narrative or rhythmic regularity, preferring momentary silences, coarse textures, and acerbic outbursts to shape and reshape the ongoing mesh. Tape snippets, warped voice, and the spatial drama of the trio’s dynamic listening keep each improvisation tense, purposeful, but always open to recalibration. The trio’s “fast changing structures” stem not from predetermined composition but from the mutual cognitive presence - every musician acts in response to the others' minute choices, ideas, and instincts.

Thread embodies succinctness and cognizance; it channels “agile determination by avoiding self-centred postulations and foreseeable conclusions”. With an alignment between tactile source material and creative vision, Krebs, Mayas, and Caddy generate music that is richly original, keenly aware, and full of surprise - their art of live and recorded interaction stands out for its intimate electricity and depth.