CATHARISTIC TRANCE MEDITATION.

RHYTHM AS AN ANTIDOTE FOR BROKEN DREAMS.

If the trio's music were a legendary fairy-tale cave, you wouldn't have to ask Sesame Street to open it, it would be enough to say the names of the masterful and undoubtedly stellar instrumentalists. You certainly know them or have at least heard of them: Iranian percussionist Bijan Chemirani (Sting), Lebanese pianist Rami Khalifé, who has guested with the world's leading symphony orchestras, and Albanian cellist Redi Hasa (Ludovico Einaudi, Bobby McFerrin, Robert Plant).
“Iran, Lebanon and Albania were not – and are not – easy places to express our art. That’s why we met in Puglia, Italy. The pandemic was over, but the feeling of futility persisted. There were too many devastating events happening around us: wars, climate change, human selfishness and the assumption that the worst might be yet to come. So we looked for a way to defend ourselves from this and music emerged as a kind of treatment for disappointment and shattered dreams,” Bijan Chemirani explained the formation of the trio, which was clearly titled, like last year’s debut album: L’Antidote or the antidote.
The compositions, steeped in instrumental neoclassicism, traditions, the Balkans, pizzica and jazz, are said to have left their mark on the space, silence and beautiful environment where they were created. Contemplative dreaming of a better future blossoms into beautiful and deliciously soothing melodies, which, however, gradually transition during improvisational areas into hypnotic rhythms leading to a cathartic trance, where you sew in a chair until you finally get up, start dancing and forget about time or even the world around you.

Photo on the list of performers by Tristan Conchon