Monkey Puzzle Trio - White World - 1CD

A slowly evolving music project featuring This Heat drummer/lynchpin Charles Hayward, Pinski Zoo and Crackle bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas and the words, voice and textures of avant-vocalist Viv Corringham, whose music walks a tightrope between song, improvisation and sound-as-sound.

“We are making new song forms based on live improvisation. Every song is created in the actual moment of performance.” [V.C]

Their debut album ‘White World’ lays down the blueprint for their sound. Captured over four days of recording, the results were then slowly edited and manipulated in the studio, two tracks being entirely reconstructed from fragments accumulated in the sessions. The sound is mostly about the interaction between the musicians - driven by the restless energy, invention and power of Hayward’s drumming and underpinned by Doyne-Ditmas’ languid and exploratory double bass, to which Corringham contributes, with the aid of a loop pedal, her unique collage of words and sounds… “Song is at the heart of Monkey Puzzle Trio’s music.” [C.H]

Together they create a distinctive sound world which is exhilarating and immersive and relies fully on the sensitivity and experience of all three musicians.

Credits:
Charles Hayward - drums, melodica, keyboards
Viv Corringham - electric voice, mini disks
Nick Doyne-Ditmas - double bass