Gjērhan by lll人

This recording includes two bare twenty minute excerpts from separate performances at Cafe OTO, plus a digital bonus - "Kan".

lll人 (pronounced /el/) is Daichi Yoshikawa, Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright. From subterranea, sweat, haze and dedication emerging out of intimate and intense weekly meetings begun in 2009. Their first 2012 public performance, squeezed into a London basement was a sheer, vexed and exhilarating smack of organic, heterodyning ideas, and taut, lowbeating lumps.

With the economy of familiar/traditional raw tools feedback, drumkit, altosaxophone, time, space and emotion lll人 move from molten musical pasts to grow future pleasures in sound.

The ingredients are familiar, but the listening is not.

At its heart is a still, undecorated concentration fuelling an extreme testing of limbs, language and order. Finding, twisting and hammering out an expanding musical universe balanced only by its own logics – lll人 have few obvious comparisons. Their performances are consistent radical negotiations of the emotional, physical and social energies of the environments they sound out.

[The second side was recorded at a summer fundraiser concert for Project Fukushima (This followed a solo performance by Evan Parker who later joined the group for a quartet) and the first as part of the inaugural INTERSECT festival four months later.]

lll人 is the trio of Daichi Yoshikawa, Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright