Pat Thomas / Andrea Giordano / Maria Dybbroe (GB/IT/DK/NO)
A new pan-European trio from different generations met in Oslo in august 2021 when the pandemic was finally about to loosen its grip on the world. With a symbiotic first meeting, it was obvious that this was the start of a new band. In a both collective and curious mindset, the trio creates breathing spaces of music while investigating landscapes with inspirations from both classical music, electro-pop, avantgarde and jazz. Piano cascades and electronics intertwine, first mellow, then energetic and expressive. Vocals and clarinet dissolves into a percussive tapestry for a moment, before moving to melodic counter-pointing lines. This is music where you have the feeling that everything is possible, and at the same time that the three improvisers follow a strong common narrative.

Pat Thomas is a legendary British pianist who has developed a completely unique style - encompassing improvisation, jazz and new c...

Pat Thomas / Andrea Giordano / Maria Dybbroe (GB/IT/DK/NO)
A new pan-European trio from different generations met in Oslo in august 2021 when the pandemic was finally about to loosen its grip on the world. With a symbiotic first meeting, it was obvious that this was the start of a new band. In a both collective and curious mindset, the trio creates breathing spaces of music while investigating landscapes with inspirations from both classical music, electro-pop, avantgarde and jazz. Piano cascades and electronics intertwine, first mellow, then energetic and expressive. Vocals and clarinet dissolves into a percussive tapestry for a moment, before moving to melodic counter-pointing lines. This is music where you have the feeling that everything is possible, and at the same time that the three improvisers follow a strong common narrative.

Pat Thomas is a legendary British pianist who has developed a completely unique style - encompassing improvisation, jazz and new classical music. He has played with some of the best-known improvisers in the world, including Derek Bailey in Company Week (1990/91) and in the trio AND (with Steve Noble).
Maria Dybbroe is a Danish saxophonist, composer and improviser living in Oslo, known for her listening and very melodic and intuitive playing, as well as her special sound on the saxophone.
Andrea S. Giordano is an Italian composer, improviser, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, based in Oslo, who works with Piedmontese dialect and harmonic juxtapositions.

“The trio communicates with a capaciousness which serves the total. This is electro-acoustic balance delicacy of highest quality. (...) They drive the music constantly through new rooms. This is how it should be. Here you undoubtable feel a nerve.(…) Thomas, Giordano and Dybbroe fill their own surpise-bag.”
(Arild R. Andersen, JazziNorge, 27. aug 2021, Blowout Festivalen)


Claudia Munksgaard Palmqvist is a Danish stop motion animator and director who since 2015 has worked on various animated projects in different genres. Her passion for experimental animation led her out of Denmark in 2017 to study for a bachelor’s degree in animation at Volda University College in Norway. Her graduation film ‘Film Found’ has been screened all over the world at film festivals in and outside of the animation category. Her love for film has always been the red thread that ties together her jobs and projects. She has written articles for the WeAnimate Magazine. She worked as a festival film programmer for Volda Animation Film Festival and Void International Animation Film Festival. She also worked as a cinema projectionist in different art house cinemas in Denmark and Norway. Claudia has been involved with stop motion projects at the animation studios JPL Films (FR) and Mikrofilm (NO)....

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