SLD Trio

John Coltrane & New Clean Feed Releases

by Maurice Hogue
December 1, 2021

"Acknowledgment" from the new John ColtraneA Love Supreme Live In Seattle highlights this episode of OMJ along with a taste of some excellent new releases from Portugal's Clean Feed Records--Friends & Neighbors, Joao Lencastre & Communion, The Rite Of Trio, and Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble. Also in the Clean Feed batch but played in earlier shows ...

Paula Shocron, Nendo Dango & Steven Bernstein

by Maurice Hogue
November 10, 2021

Following up on music by Argentinean pianist, Paula Shocron, led me to Nendo Dango Records, the Buenos Aires label run by Shocron and her partner, drummer Pablo Diaz. This episode features very forward-thinking music from several Nendo Dango releases. There's also more piano from a new recording by Australian Alister Spence and Japan's Satoko Fujii. Their ...

SLD Trio: Tensegridad

by John Sharpe
January 2, 2018

Out of Argentina comes splendid entry into the piano-trio stakes. The three young protagonists, pianist Paula Shocron, bassist Germ��n Lamonega and drummer Pablo Diaz loom large on the Buenos Aires' creative music scene and have already made connections in NYC, resulting in Emptying The Self (NendoDango Records, 2017) where William Parker takes over the bass chair. ...

Tensegridad

By SLD Trio

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Vera; Snake Out; Truth; Tensegridad; El origen Del Lenguaje; Connie; Casa Rodante; Universo Tiene Sentido; Yeelen.

Paula Shocron / Germ��n Lamonega / Pablo Diaz: Tensegridad

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 29, 2017

The cover image for Tensegridad, the second album from the Argentinian SLD Trio, looks like a dolmen and it fits the music that both feels ancient and modern. While some types of avant-garde music seek to re-invent the language of music to the point of total estrangement, the strength of the SLD Trio lies in its ...

Anfitrion

By SLD Trio

Label: Nendodangorecords
Released: 2015
Track listing: La Llave; -11C; La novia; 24 horas; Embudos; R.C; C.M; W.P; R.M; D.J; Firuletes.

SLD Trio: Anfitrion

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 2, 2015

A piano trio without a leader? The concept is not unknown, but the norm in jazz is that a trio has a leader. Even pianist Bill Evans' trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, famous for dissolving the fixed hierarchy in a trio setting, was formally presented as the Bill Evans trio.