trioVD: X – review

(Naim Edge)The Leeds-based, avant-funk threesome trioVD (former Acoustic Ladyland guitarist Chris Sharkey, saxophonist Christophe de Bézenac and drummer Chris Bussey) like keeping things tight – their 2009 Fill It Up With Ghosts album ran to barely more than 40 minutes. But, at the speed with which they unleash their incendiary mix of splattery, blustering atonal sax themes and road-crash guitar chords, or the intensity with which they unfold Ornette Coleman-like jazz laments, it felt like a ...

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