A brand spanking new band called Trioscapes has landed on my laptop, Experimental Jazz Fusion including a member of Between The Buried And Me? Well this is new! After only being together for just a year, the band are on their first 6 track release ‘Separate Realities’ So let’s pop it in shall we?

‘Blast Off’ the first track on this to be honest sounds like something a 10 year old could have made on a computer with their granddad playing the saxophone in the background. A lot of racket! The idea is there, think Frank Zappa at his craziest..yet it just doesn’t fit. ‘Separate Realities’ starts off impressively with some soothing, yet a little uneasy guitar riffage which slowly introduces some drum beats… shortly after in comes the sax, which personally I just don’t get.  However, the drum rolls and guitars all over the place make up for it.

By the third track ‘Curse of the Ninth’ I was a little bored and uninspired with it. Yet I plundered on. Sounding much like odd elevator/lift music and having that kids in a music class jamming feeling. Unlistenable! ‘Wazzlejazzlebof’ ???? the fourth attempt on the 6 track cd is another headache..  put a quick computer drum track on there and a bit of endless sax…. and that’s pretty much the track.. ‘Celestial Terrestrial Commuters’ again the same kind of crap as the previous with an added electric guitar…. absolutely terrible.

Lastly (thank the almighty metal god himself) is ‘Gemimi’s Descent’ another one not worth even a listen. At first sounding something like what Tool could produce on a bad day turns into something even more characterless and unexciting.

To think I wasted time listening to this, why would it even be put on a CD? Sorry guys…. stick to your day job or head to the dole queue!

(1/10  Charlene Rance)

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