Paradox Trio

Paradox Trio — which became a quartet immediately after it is formation but offers stayed referred to as a trio in name just — was shaped by Matt Darriau in 1994, a couple of years following the multi-reedist moved from Boston to NEW YORK. The band offers offered a small-ensemble framework for Darriau to keep the type of stylistic fusion he started exploring while an associate of Boston-based big music group Orange After that Blue: a melding of jazz and innovative improvisation using the melodies, settings, and rhythms of Balkan, klezmer, Celtic, and Gypsy folk music customs. Furthermore to Darriau, the band’s first incarnation presented percussionist Seido Salifoski from Macedonia and cellist Rufus Cappadocia (mentioned for his “ethno-slap-funk-cello” design) from Hamilton, Ontario; Brad Shepik quickly became a member of the group on acoustic guitar, as well as the quartet continuing with out a lineup switch through the entire ’90s and well in to the 2000s. Along with Dave Douglas’ Tiny Bell Trio, Pachora, and Brad Shepik & the Commuters (all including Shepik), through the ’90s Paradox Trio had been in the forefront of NY organizations melding an edgy downtown sensibility with Eastern Western and Middle Eastern affects. The group became known because of its rousing displays in the Bell Café in New York’s Soho (Tiny Bell Trio produced its name from your same location) as well as the Knitting Manufacturing plant, the well-known downtown golf club whose label released the ensemble’s eponymous 1st Compact disc in 1995. The Knitting Manufacturing plant label also released the Soaring at a Slant Compact disc in 1997 and Resource, an recording that investigates early-20th hundred years music from the Ottoman Empire, in 1999. The band’s Knitting Manufacturing plant discs have regrettably eliminated out of printing, but Paradox had been still going solid by the middle-2000s, with membership and festival performances and the discharge of 2005’s Gambit for the Enja label. Paradox also have performed reside in accompaniment to traditional silent movies; an excerpt through the band’s efficiency of Darriau’s rating towards the Salvador Dali/Luis Buñuel surrealist landmark Un Chien Andalou could be heard for the WHAT’S Jazz? 1996 Compact disc, which features live paths from various performers who performed on the Knitting Factory’s innovative jazz fest that season. Through the 2000s, following the heyday from the downtown picture had handed, New York’s “Gypsy punk” rings began receiving significant interest from Brooklyn live music scenesters and music critics — Paradox Trio could quickly be observed as forefathers from the Gypsy punkers, albeit using a more powerful jazz sensibility. Actually, with regards to direct cable connections, accordionist Yuri Lemeshev of Gogol Bordello has been around the Paradox orbit, executing live with the music group on various events (and in addition touring within a duo with Darriau), and Slavic Spirit Party!, another music group from the 2000s frequently included beneath the “Gypsy punk” rubric, included Darriau within a touring lineup. While frequently considered primarily an innovative store for Darriau, Paradox Trio possess served as a significant operating group for all of its users, with Shepik second to Darriau in adding plans for the music group. As Shepik continuing to improve his participation — both as head and sideman — in various other groups through the brand-new millennium, guitarist Dave Fiuczynski (Screaming Headless Torsos, Hasidic New Influx) would occasionally replace him as Paradox Trio’s guitarist in live performances.