Biography
An Australian pianist most widely known as an associate from the experimental post-jazz trio Triosk, Adrian Klumpes is both classically trained (a former conservatory college student) and an accomplished straight-ahead jazz pianist (along with the movie director of senior high school jazz music group by day time), but his pursuits have a tendency to take him far beyond the conventions of the fields. As not merely the main melodic and harmonic tone of voice in Triosk but additionally the principal wielder from the sampler as well as other means of digital manipulation where they achieved their particular fusion of traditional jazz components with avant-garde ambient textures, Klumpes was central to satisfying that group’s minimalism-inspired eyesight. His own single debut recording, released, like Triosk’s two full-lengths for the eclectic London-based Leaf Label, stresses precisely how central he’s. The heavily-processed result of an individual, piano-only recording program, its timbral and textural palette can be practically indistinguishable from that of Triosk’s function, although officially it strays also further from any residual idea of “jazz,” winding up nearer to modern classical within the minimalist tradition.