Trio of Bloom
Craig Taborn; Nels Cline; Marcus Gilmore
Pyroclastic Records PR42 (trioofbloom.bandcamp.com/album/trio-of-bloom)
Besides the abundantly obvious fact that it is scientifically impossible to go wrong with this lineup of musicians, one striking thing about the debut recording of this super trio is how it stands as a testament to how much more experimenting and boundary-obliterating still remains to be done in careers this storied. Each musician is a loose spigot of cascading ideas and moments of profound motivic force, the union of which gives each improvisation a shapeshifting quality.
Signposts reached in soft alignment, growths develop organically rather than methodically, an unspoken knowing that renders even the dizzying Unreal Light five-five-four-four metric cycle intrinsic to owning a pulse. Craig Taborn’s keys and Nels Cline’s guitar bite, ravage, warmly embrace, coalesce, and repel the air, while drummer Marcus Gilmore channels fluid deposits of universal energy, dancing currents through the mind’s eye. Music that finds itself woven into the fabric of everything that has been and will follow, all while finding its own outpost in the midst of the living. Even as time is manipulated by phrases that feel unsusceptible to the trappings of any bar lines, it is seldom wasted. When a song like Diana is three minutes, it need not run a second longer, even as sentences run on without periods, and a simple gesture contains all the narrative depth of an epic.
Trio of Bloom is music for rare moments of stillness in our world, letting one’s imagination run amok, and for awesome music’s sake.
