Trio Heinz Herbert - "Tomorrow Wonderland / The Stretch"

Trio Heinz Herbert are creating some of the most exciting and forward thinking jazz-inflected experimental rock we’ve heard in awhile. Paired favorably with artists like Jaga Jazzist and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, the Swiss trio find some truly elevated and unique ground with “The Stretch and “Tomorrow Wonderland” According to the press release “The Stretch”, “This journey really begins with The Stretch, with its granular textured harmonic guitar and lopsided groove. We get the sense that drummer Haenni has thoroughly studied and annotated Jaki Liebzeit dot-dash system whilst finding his own style within this method. Around half-way across the track, the groove is dropped and taken up by a 4/4 kick. In a 1995 interview in The Wire, Karlheinz Stockhausen offered advice to a young Aphex Twin- his main criticism of AFX was that (at that time) his rhythms were was too repetitive. Trio Heinz Herbert perhaps allude to this problem when they drop their own sequenced 4/4 bass drum, immediately the flow and groove is wiped and Haenni role as time-keeper shifts to one of percussive embellisher. This feels like an effortless firing off of complex trains of thoughts, like a form of haptic communication.”

On Tomorrow Wonderland, the press release states, “Whilst the epic finale Tomorrow Wonderland is akin to walking up a Scottish munro- the monotony of its barren landscape of heath and heather and the frustration of illusory false summits and the highland tundra eventually gives way to the epiphany that is the summit. We’re far above the clouds now taking in incredible geological strata formed from the remains of 350 million year old volcano. Aurally we’re in unknown territory - well except that is, for the most intrepid of electronic pioneers, like the cochlea-shaking Maryanne Amarcher.”