Simon Popp - Trio GOLD LP (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 17-October-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

At its heart, Trio is a work about collaboration, playfulness and unification. It is music as a means of coming together, a sonic equivalent to the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi, in which broken ceramics are repaired with a visible golden lacquer. Rather than hiding the breaks, Kintsugi embraces them, making them part of the story, a form of delicate transformation. Popp and his collaborators Flurin Mück and Sebastian Wolfgruber take a similar approach: three distinct drummers, three different temperaments, three personal styles. Fused together into a single expressive instrument.

The album is a celebration of timbre, texture, and touch, its sound palette drawn from across continents and traditions. Human beings at all points of time, across all cultures and continents have used music to celebrate, mourn, worship and bond. Along with our voices, creating rhythm with our bodies. Clapping, stomping, hitting with sticks. A celebration of rhythm as both a shared human memory and an audible expression of close bonds.

Trio is a reflection of the beauty of imperfection and the timeless pull of rhythm as a shared human force. The cracks are not hidden. They are filled with gold.

Tracklist: A1) Hain 00:03:42 A2) OiOOiOiiOi 00:03:21 A3) High High Low 00:02:20 A4) Birkenschlag 00:03:53 A5) Awen 00:02:33 B1) Wallride 00:02:07 B2) Powidl 00:03:07 B3) Nonnegative 00:03:47 B4) Eggplant 00:02:51 B5) Derecho 00:03:52 B6) Before All Else 00:04:18