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                    The Binding Third 
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                    UNROCK 024LP
                 
                    UNROCK 024LP 
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                    11/4/2022 
                
                 
                    
                        | The legendary Lebanese trio of trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj (Karkhana, Johnny Kafta), guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui (Calamita, Karkhana, Johnny Kafta), and bassist Raed Yassin (Praed, Praed Orchestra) celebrates their 20th anniversary with The Binding Third on Unrock. They still create acoustic improvised drones that range from insistent, chiming resonances with emergency alarm bells to low, thrumming hums but with growing intensity. Avoiding conventional technique, "A" Trio manages to create sounds like motorized devices to generate rattling, metallic vibrations, building a mechanistic backdrop out of which the instruments' true voices occasionally arise. This recording, taken at Sound Disobidience in Llubljana in 2019 reaches an exceptional electro-acoustic depth with strange sounds boiling down to a dark, heavy spiritual essence. Call it acoustic-industrial-free-jazz or call it unrock. The Binding Third is "A" Trio's first full-length album since their 2014 release Live In Nickelsdorf. In between they released a collaboration with Sun City Girl Alan Bishop and another with UK-electro-acoustic pioneers AMM. Recently A-Trio joined forces with Egyptian composer Maurice Louca on his solo-album The Luck Hour, released on Sub Rosa (SR 519LP). |  |  
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