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Troyka

by Troyka

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1.
Tax Return 04:05
2.
Clint 06:12
3.
140 01:35
4.
Golden 04:57
5.
Bear 04:52
6.
Cajoch 02:40
7.
Twelve 03:58
8.
9.
Noonian Song 05:37
10.
Call 02:20
11.
Zeitgeist 01:45

about

Troyka are Chris Montague, Joshua Blackmore and Kit Downes, three young musicians based in London whose intense live shows have seen them hotly tipped to follow in the foot steps of Polar Bear and Portico Quartet and become the next young band to explode from the capital’s fertile jazz scene. A multi-textured trio with a febrile imagination where no role is pre-defined, their music twists and mutates in an ongoing dialogue inspired by a shared love of Aphex Twin, the angular world of iconclastic New York saxophonist Tim Berne and the blues-jazz-rock groove of legendary Steely Dan and Billy Cobham guitarist Wayne Krantz. With their visceral mash-up of rock, jazz and dance music, Trokya sound more like Tony William’s Lifetime remix by Burial than the classic hammond organ trio. But then that’s the point, they’re part of a new generation of young musicians who refuse to be constrained by the old boundaries.

To whom the old question of ‘what is it’ is replaced by ‘is it any good’? Troyka live in a post hip-hop world where you can take whatever source materials you like and do your own singular thing with it. Recorded by noted engineer Robert Harder (Acoustic Ladyland, Babyshambles, Brian Eno etc), Troyka’s self-titled debut distills the essence of the bands intense live shows in to a finely focused album.

From the elemental groove of Tax Return, to the slide-driven throb of Clint, sly groove of Noonian Song, shimmering, tricksy Twelve and the twisted beauty and carefully calibrated mayhem of Born in the ‘80s, it perfectly nails the bands dark-toned lyricism, shape-shifting grooves and intense improvisational power. Play Troyka loud, they won’t let you down.

credits

released June 29, 2009

CHRIS MONTAGUE guitar / loops
KIT DOWNES organ
JOSHUA BLACKMORE drums

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6,7,8,9 and 11 by Chris Montague and tracks 4, 5 and 10 by Kit Downes
Produced by Troyka
Executive Producer Dave Stapleton
Recorded by Robert Harder at Harder Sounds on 14th and 15th Oct 2008 and 6th April 2009
Mixed and mastered by Robert Harder at Harder Sounds, London in November 2008 and April 2009

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