Each song that they have made on these eps runs into each other so that each tracks title is numbered chronologically i. Three trapped tigers by three trapped tigers, released 27 june 2017 1. This was pretty much the only concept id had before the recording which to put a real performer against a machine performer and explore the gap between the two of them which is something thats always preoccupied me in my band three trapped tigers as well. Improvising pianist and keyboardist, founder of experimental electronicrock band three trapped tigers. Mar 21, 2011 three trapped tigers are three guys from the uk who create experimental music. Finding shore is a studio album by british improvising pianist and keyboard player tom rogerson with brian eno, released in january 2018 via dead oceans records tom rogerson is a pianist and keyboard player who is a founding member of london based instrumental experimental rock trio three trapped tigers. After three eps, londons three trapped tigers finally get around to releasing their debut fulllength. The title track, and opener, starts things off with one of the albums biggest whoppers in this department. Dec 18, 2017 staggeringly talented british composer and pianist tom rogerson has impressed us many a time with his creativity and technical skill behind the keys in three trapped tigers, the trio he founded a decade ago.
So far theyve released one ep each year, for the last three years. Ttt are a band born out of a common challenge bonding over the idea of dragging elements of idm into the format of a live band, replacing computers with humans, rendering a backing track redundant and adding a. England band three trapped tigers, tom rogerson blends an invigorating mix of noiserock, math rock and heady electronic music. Three trapped tigers, from left to right, matt calvert, adam betts and tom rogerson jo bongard three trapped tigers have just revealed a new. After stints playing jazz in new york, a delipadated fenland hotel and in noise rock band three trapped tigers, rogerson ran into eno at a gig. Matt calvert julian lamoralroberts tom rogerson produced by. Beatcast studio sessions by three trapped tigers, released 12 november 20 1. Three trapped tigers are an instrumental experimental rock trio from london composed of keyboardist and vocalist tom rogerson, drummer adam betts, and guitarist matt calvert. An opera north projects commission, the new score for eisensteins masterpiece by jan bang punkt. Reset all the money raised from these tracks will be donated to adopt a tiger wwfuk registered charity number 1081247 there are as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild, with the population having plummeting by 95% in the last 100 years. Read three trapped tigers s bio and find out more about three trapped tigers s songs, albums, and chart history. Jun 20, 2017 on this evening, three trapped tigers keyboardist tom rogerson, drummer adam betts, and guitaristsynths matt calvert were in fine form to open the evenings events.
With three trapped tigers cabrera infante enters the front rank of latin american novelists. Tom rogerson is from the british experimental rock trio three trapped tigers. Three trapped tigers tickets, belfast, stereoboard. Where, in that context he was vocalist and keyboardist here he submits his piano offerings with some synths and electronic ideas to ambientmusics overlord brian eno.
Rogerson also recorded cable street shorts with saxophonist tomas challenger in 2010, and worked with hong kongborn singersongwriter emmy the great, as well as experimental rock trailblazers the red krayola. Cabrera infantes masterpiece, three trapped tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the u. Finding shore falls in the latter category tom rogerson was admittedly not someone i was familiar with before encountering this album. Three trapped tigers 11 tom rogerson piano, keyboards, voice adam betts drums, electronics matt calvert guitar, synths, electronics. The height of the reeds and matt calvert three trapped tigers returns to. If you look closely, there is no book more visual than three trapped tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. The book belongs with cortazars hopscotch, garcia marquezs one hundred years of solitude, and donosos the obscure bird of night.
Rogerson, best known as the founder of experimental electrorock group three trapped tigers, struck up. The plot of three trapped tigers is conceived as a nightclub show, introduced by the frenetic multilingual wordplay of the emcee of the famous tropicana cabaret in havana. Three trapped tigers are an instrumental noiserock trio from london. As a 17yearold he had the odd contrast of being taught by the. Improvisational pianist and three trapped tigers founder tom rogerson has shared his new album finding shore in full. An extended collaboration with ambient godfather brian eno, the. Its not, say the trio, meant to imply that they represent a tiger each. The suffolk landscape inspired finding shore, on which rogerson plays improvised piano.
Tom rogerson of three trapped tigers plays a version of cramm on a street piano at millennium bridge, london 2011. Its a difficult job, and thats clear from listening to the record, but such is the breathtaking nature of three trapped tigers that it is highly doubtful many will mind. Their short but incendiary set kicked off with engrams, an intriguing exploration of sonics that borders on the dancy. The height of the reeds and matt calvert three trapped tigers returns to the uk for efg london jazz festival 2019. Londons instrumental trio three trapped tigers keyboardist tom rogerson. An improvisational pianist with a somewhat eclectic background, he has most prominently played as part of the very kinetic, electronicallyflavoured mathpostrock band three trapped tigers. Formed in 2007, they have released three eps and two studio albums to date.
Three trapped tigers member tom rogerson takes some time out from the day job to make an lp with brian eno you would, wouldnt you. Three trapped tigers premiere new interactive video for engrams. British postrock trio three trapped tigers utilized brian enos oblique strategies, a series of cards containing simple phrases intended as ideas for artists struggling with writers block, during the compositional process for their 2016 album silent earthling. Listen to finding shore, the new album from tom rogerson. He took the traditional route of music lessons and learning notation before starting composing properly. A member of the explosive avantrock group three trapped tigers, rogerson tends to favor space and. For the novel published in spanish as tres tristes tigres, see guillermo cabrera infante. Three trapped tigers is an instrumental noiserock band from london, uk. I liked the book, i liked the name, and it seemed to make sense with the concept of the group contained rage says tom. Approaching the record via another of enos creative strategies in this case using software to manipulate the signals sent by playing a piano finding shore does a fine job of combining the heavenly blissscapes for which eno is famous with the kind of.
English pianist and three trapped tigers founder tom rogerson is releasing his debut album, finding shore, later this year, and its a collaboration with. The incendiary second piece steals a few pages from the books of progrock. Tom rogerson is known for his work on the girl and the fish 2010, three trapped tigers. In his words, the piano is fairly integrated into my emotional communication. Inspired by artists like aphex twin and autechre, tom rogerson keyboards, electronics, vocals formed the band in london with matt calvert guitar, synthesizer, electronics in. Three trapped tigers second album, silent earthling, created utilizing brian enos oblique strategies system, was released in 2016. Mar 30, 2018 having played jazz piano alongside reid anderson the bad plus in new york, and had a successful career with postrock group three trapped tigers, improvisation has always had an important and visceral role for rogerson. Three trapped tigers matt calvert announces debut album. Instrumental noise band three trapped tigers are back with their brand new album silent earthling. Oct 17, 2011 tom rogerson of three trapped tigers plays a version of cramm on a street piano at millennium bridge, london 2011.
Tom rogerson is a pianist who specialises in improvisation, with a mixed musical background including being taught by harrison birtwistle, a stint playing jazz in new york and membership of london. Londons instrumental trio three trapped tigers keyboardist tom rogerson, guitarist matt calvert and drummer adam betts shaped their identity via three adventurous eps. Published on oct 17, 2011 tom rogerson of three trapped tigers plays a version of cramm on a street piano at millennium bridge, london 2011. Three trapped tigers frontman tom rogerson plays piano and submits himself to enos improvisational techniques on his debut solo album. Inspired by artists like aphex twin and autechre, tom rogerson keyboards, electronics, vocals formed the band in london with matt cal. They named themselves three trapped tigers after the book by cuban writer cabrera infante. Finding shore is the sound of tom distilling the essence of what he does after a protracted musical journey from childhood until now. He is the founder of three trapped tigers and has also made music with others, such as finding shore 2017 with brian eno. Ttt are a band born out of a common challenge bonding over the idea of dragging elements of idm into the format of a live band, replacing computers with humans, rendering a backing track redundant and adding a humanized dimension to a robotic genre. He is the founder of three trapped tigers and has also made music with others, such as finding shore 2017 with brian. Shimmering scifi explorations and rich cinematic landscapes collide with pulsing electronics, mammoth riffs and pounding drums to make one of the most enjoyable and inventive instrumental rock albums of the decade. His background in jazz, contemporary classical and avantrock serves three trapped tigers tom rogerson well on what is effectively a solo piano album subjected to enos subtle treatments. Tom rogerson, frontman with londonbased noise trio three trapped tigers, is a classically trained pianist who helped produce emmy the greats debut album and whose entry into nonclassical music.
Three trapped tigers d three trapped tigers are a british instrumental noise rock band from london, consisting of tom rogerson on keyboards, adam betts, on drums and electronics, and matt calvert on guitar and synth. Tom rogerson s new album with brian eno on cd in 6panel wallet. In the press release by dead oceans regarding finding shore, the debut solo effort by three trapped tigers vocalistpianist tom rogerson, accompanied by the everlegendary brian eno, much effort goes into emphasizing that finding shore is, for all intents and purposes, tom rogerson s album first and foremost despite the shared billing with the artrockturnedambient maestro eno. With the raw energy of rock music, freedom of improvisation, and circularity of electronica, three trapped tigers conjure the contained intensity of their namesake. Two additional eps followed in 2009 and 2010, respectively, finding the band further delving into artmathelectro alchemy. Or for rogerson to go into his phone contact list and recruit three trapped tigers drummer adam betts to unleash the kinetic percussion that underpinned the bands sometimes schizophrenic math. Finding shore by tom rogerson with brian eno album. Tom rogerson 2005 with reid anderson, michael lewis, christian hebel and michael spyro. Three trapped tigers are a british instrumental noise rock band from london, consisting of tom rogerson on keyboards, adam betts, on drums and electronics, and matt calvert on guitar and synth. New york playing jazz, recording with reid anderson of the bad plus, and had a successful career with postrock group three trapped tigers, yet however enjoyable that experience was, he admits it was definitely a diversionary tactic. Three trapped tigers, from left to right, matt calvert, adam betts and tom rogerson jo bongard. Its the same as what i do now, funnily enough, ive come back to it. Three trapped tigers silent earthling the progressive. In december 2017, tom rogerson released his debut album finding.
Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and sternean typographysuch as the section entitled some revelations, which consists of several blank pagesthis novel has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, cuban ulysses. Creepies three trapped tigers is an electronic instrumental trio who write cinematic tunes with highspeed riffs and polyrhythmic percussion. Whilst three trapped tigers have always been noisy enough for some to attach to them somewhat illadvisedly, at least to my ears the noise rock tag, isilent earthlingi is chock full of some seriously meaty dual guitar riffs. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from three trapped tigers at the discogs marketplace. Three trapped tigers biography, albums, streaming links. Three trapped tigers second album silent earthling is its first for the superball label. Record shops music gear books films comics posters. After the album was recorded, group member tom rogerson an improvisational pianist and composer in his own right began working with. Three trapped tigers second album silent earthling is its first for the superball. Tom rogerson piano, keyboards, vocalist since 2007. Silent earthling is clearly an experiment in how to expand on a sound that is already protean and expansive by nature. Includes unlimited streaming of finding shore via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac and more.
Oct 08, 2012 ive been asked to do a few of these before so i thought why not these were pretty tricky to record, as the tempos on the album are all pretty fluid, so rerecording drums along to them meant i. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from tom rogerson at the discogs marketplace. Three trapped tigers could have been born at any time between king crimson and battles. He is the founder of three trapped tigers, in which he sings and plays piano and keyboards. The london band are comprised drummer adam betts who works on electronics with guitarist and synth player matt calvery plus singer tom rogerson on keys and piano. He spent some time in new york playing jazz, recording with reid anderson of the bad plus, and had a successful career with postrock group three trapped tigers, yet however enjoyable that experience was, he admits it was definitely a diversionary tactic. As their initial series of eps proved, ttt are a group determined to move beyond the confines of mathematical electronic rock. Formed in 2007, silent earthling is their second album, the first on superball music, following the release of a trio of eps. Buy brian enos album titled finding shore to enjoy in your home or car, or gift it to another music lover. Playful neoclassical works for piano and electronics, recorded by brian eno. Theyre difficult to categorize but fit somewhere between the worlds of math rock, jazz, electronica and metal. Ttts music is enthralling, an eclectic and exhilarating melange of styles hammered out in rhythmic pulses.