Jazz Articles about Sepia Trio

Sepia Trio: Cleft

by Andrey Henkin
December 14, 2005

Cleft's genre comes up as “unclassifiable in iTunes. While this is a little bit of a stretch, the Sepia Trio's mix of disparate energy music traditions, most audibly The Fringe, is impressive. Seth Meicht (sax), Brendan Dougherty (drums, electronics), and a new bassist, the much older Akira Ando, recorded Cleft in Dougherty's adopted home of Germany, both live and in the studio. Just when the opening ten-minute “Losgelassen leads a listener to expect an album of aggressive ...