Boomkat Product Review:
Shapeshifting algorithmatists Dane Law and Chants pluck out a sort of AI medieval chamber jazz for the ever unpredictable The Trilogy Tapes.
Gorgeous lilting pop dimensions here from The Trilogy Tapes, the maiden collaboration between Dane Law and Chants, featuring the electro-steel strings of free jazzer Jeff Snyder (ExclusiveOr, Listening Group) and Ben Ferris playing upright bass, on a tip that reels between poles of chamber music, folk, jazz, and electronics with an unstuffy freedom and melodic charm that somewhat echoes that turn-of-the-century movement ushered by likes of Lali Puna and also found in the precision tooled plucks of Arovane or Christian Klein on City Centre Offices, or even the baroque revivalism of Jozef Van Wissem.
Their sound gently oscillates a folk conviviality and melancholy between 14 bittersweetly puckered pieces that wear their sentiments well, but with enough nuanced oddness that identifies it as their own work and very much a product of 2023, in an emotionally generous way that also sits next to contemporary pearls from Tara Clerkin Trio, minus the vocals.
