Tara Clerkin Trio

Tara Clerkin Trio at Pianodrome

Tara Clerkin Trio are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. They are inspired by and borrow from jazz, trip hop, electronica, psychedelia & minimalism, twirling the non-pretentious strands of these threads together into a trippy green winged-cloak, adorning Arthur Russell and dripping in blue jam.

They're hot off the back of a new album, Somewhere Good, which is excellent. The currents of modern UK music are shifting and this album is the visible bubbles on the surface of that stream. Note the seamless combination of acoustic far-micing with hermetic electronic glitches. Something simple, something sampled, something totally unexpected. An interesting album for its effortless ease of listening that still rewards mightily close interrogation.

No better place to see it than in the pianodrome, truly.