UMINARI TRIO

YASUMUNE MORISHIGE // cello

CAL LYALL // banjo

JAMES HULLICK // piano

Uminari Trio represents the sonic communion between three artists who bow to the might of auditory creation. Everything is improvised, though falling into self-similar sonic places that the trio will visit in each concert. These sonic places have beginnings and endings — shaped like pieces — but for the trio they are continuations that play out through multiple performances and through a loyalty each of the musicians shares for the higher ideal of sonic creation. It’s an elegant intertwining sound that arises from acoustic instruments: cello; banjo; prepared piano; sometimes voice; that can be amplified and electronically translated or left in their acoustic domains. Each of the artists in the trio have been radically influenced by sonic art culture; the cultures of ancient creators; and the global mayhem of the proliferating information soup pouring out through the internet. This is music ecstasy with a meditative backbone: an ocean rising up after a still night over moonlit waters.