Simon Popp - Trio (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Rhythm has always been more than just for timekeeping. It is inherent to us, instinctive and ritualistic. It is the first communal act, shared before language. Rhythm has been the very core of what it means to be human, the backbone of a millennia of singing, dancing, human expression and interconnectedness. It is with this primal understanding that Munich-based percussionist Simon Popp approaches Trio, his new album and the first made in collaboration with two fellow percussionists, Sebastian Wolfgruber and Flurin Mück.

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 take a similar approach: three distinct drummers, three different temperaments, three personal styles. Fused together into a single expressive instrument.

TRACKLIST

1. Simon Popp - Hain
2. Simon Popp - OiOOiOiiOi
3. Simon Popp - High High Low
4. Simon Popp - Birkenschlag
5. Simon Popp - Awen
6. Simon Popp - Wallride
7. Simon Popp - Powidl
8. Simon Popp - Nonnegative
9. Simon Popp - Eggplant
10. Simon Popp - Derecho
11. Simon Popp - Before All Else



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