Trygghet - Two View

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 22 Oct, 2009.

Because the first track on Trygghet's Two View LP is called 'Square Circle' I debated reviewing it in the style of The Ultimate Warrior, going on about the spirits of warrior's past and how I'm going to destroy 'Hoke Gogan' at Wrestlemania, but I thought better of it. Drawing on elements of post-rock, jazz, ambient and field recordings, this two track album is a quiet and relaxing delight, particularly the more vibraphone-heavy sections which sound like Lionel Hampton stoned at home, smiling to himself as he spends hours repetitive, subtly shifting patterns. Both Tortoise and Supersilent in their more sedate moments both come to mind too. Impressive, Snake.

TRYGGHET's first record TWO VIEW deals with partially composed but to a large part improvised repetitive music, influenced by minimal, ambient, jazz, post-rock, and modern classical music. There is no soloing, but rather a common process of developing improvisation by all three musicians on the two pieces of TWO VIEW.

Another foundation for the record's sound is the use of field-recordings of cars and trains to fill the sound-realm of the (absent) drummer while the musicians make an attempt on his rhythmical role. The field-recordings are to the music what film-music is to a film: they support and complement the story.

The Instruments were recorded at Clouds Hill Recordings, Hamburg. The field-recordings where made in Amsterdam and Hamburg. The editing, mixing and mastering was done at Durton Studio, Berlin. Frederic Gmeiner designed the artwork. TWO VIEW was pressed by Record Industry, Haarlem and released by Atelier Music Recordings.

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