Trio Ramberget - Trio Ramberget (Self Release) [Ambient]
- The Slow Music Movement
- Feb 13
- 1 min read
*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's January 15th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***
I missed Trio Ramberget’s early years but fortunately caught up with them around the start of the decade, and have been following them with interest ever since. Consisting of Gustav Davidsson on Trombone, Johanna Ekholm on double bass and Pelle Westlin on Bass clarinet, they’re an acoustic ambient trio that hover around the becalmed intersection of classical, jazz and electroacoustic improvisation, and refreshingly they don’t sound like too much else around.
They’ve also just hit their tenth anniversary and have decided to mark the occasion with an eponymous album that was recorded live in a big oil cistern on the Swedish island of Svanö at Nonagonfestivalen. Unsurprisingly, and rather like the Tramuntana Tapes I above, the space more than plays its part in the recording, in this case offering natural reverb and ambient friendly reluctant to fade echoes that feed back to the trio, inspiring them to even deeper ambient states than normal, and they’re a pretty chilled bunch at the best of times. Notes are stretched beyond reason, Ekholm bows, plucks and general mistreats her bass as the trombone and clarinet intertwine to quietly experimental, becalming ends.
It’s a fitting anniversary release that encapsulates the trio’s deviant, low key playful and considered approach to music creation. Look out for them coming to an oil cistern near you soon.
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