The current music programme at the Triskel offers further proof of this intimate venues continued importance to the arts scene in Cork, a fact reflected in the recent Arts Council funding scheme which awarded the centre the highest pay-out of any venue, organisation or individual in the county. 

The coming months will see a diverse range of national and international talent appear at the venue including two performances this week by the amazing Ferenc Snetberger Trio Nomad and Irish jazz three-piece White Rocket.

Ferenc Snétberger is a virtuoso guitarist of superlative abilities. The Hungarian born Berlin based musician has his roots in jazz and classical guitar, but over the course of his career has frequently uprooted in search of pastures new. His vivacious playing style has evolved over the years to incorporate multi-cultural strands of sounds and technique taking in Latin and Bossa Nova, Tango, and Indian raga’s and drones. Along the way he’s toured with the likes of Al di Meola and Pat Metheny.

White Rocket follow on Saturday, February 16. Dubliners Carpio and Felton met Chicago-born Wick at Canada’s Banff Centre for Jazz & Creative. The group share a love of the rhythmic systems of India’s carnatic music as well as folk-finger-picker Nick Drake,  IDM sound-manipulators Autechre and metallic-mathematic-equation-busters Meshuggah.

These influences are not overt say the group themselves, but do offer evidence of open musical minds at work, and a desire to stretch the parameters through their own take on jazz. Comfortable and self assured within the contemporary jazz idiom, and yet liberated from it, Carpio, Wick and Felton move from their hallmark asymmetric grooves to an introspective lyricism without impediment, with the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic axis in constant movement between this triad of gifted young players.

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