Together for over 25 years and spanning 17 albums, Australian trio The Necks are, quite simply, unique. These three musicians have developed a profoundly empathic style of improvised music, impossible to categorise, that has enthralled audiences worldwide. Their oeuvre consists of the fragments and momentary glimpses heard in other music that you wish would last a little longer.
The Necks create compelling soundscapes from the basic tools of the jazz piano trio – a format heavy with historic precedent and contemporary practitioners – and breathe new life into the approach. Taking these building blocks of piano, bass and drums, they construct lengthy extended pieces, which equally reward both deep listening and drifting contemplation. Playing on the audience’s heightened sensory awareness, The Necks evoke the early phase experiments of Terry Riley and Steve Reich as well as the contemporary grooves of the sadly missed Esbjörn Svensson Trio.
No two Necks concerts sound alike. Necks music has a deep metaphorical resonance, like hearing the world in a grain of sand or not stepping in the same river twice, from the ebb and flow of the tides to the slowly setting sun. From the simplest of motifs, they painstakingly add colours and textures, with shifting pulses that delicately fray time, gradually coalescing into ruminative pieces that can reach the hour mark. For more check out our interview with Tony Buck, drummer with the Necks here
The Necks will STRUT at the Peacock Stage, Abbey Theatre, Dublin at 9pm on Saturday 21st November.
Tickets can be booked here
www.abbeytheatre.ie
Win Tickets To See The Necks at STRUT
We’ve got a pair of tickets to see The Necks up for grabs! The prize includes dinner and a drink (beer or wine) for two at the newly opened Peacock Cafe. To be in with a chance to win head over to our Facebook page and share and tag the post there. Winners will be contacted on the evening of Wednesday 11th November.
