At the spearhead of contemporary sound sensibility, a trio flutters happily alongside The Dreamers, Tortoise or Brandt Brauer Frick, in which things are not at all classical in the classic trio line-up: the guitar provides roaring pads, the bass sings and the drums tell stories. One hears influences from post-rock, experimental music, minimal, avant-garde and jazz.

Alex Binder (b), Keisuke Matsuno (g) and Jan Roth (dr) met at the music academy in Weimar, and have since moved to New York (Matsuno) and Erfurt (Binder and Roth). But from a butterfly's perspective, the tranquil Krämerbrücke and the monumental Brooklyn Bridge are not so far apart after all. And so, after the
And so, after the highly acclaimed 2010 debut "Trio Schmetterling", "Globus" (Traumton 2013) is another album that testifies to exuberant playfulness and brotherhood in spirit.