Triola - Chiral (2019)

Chiral is the brand new album from Japanese duo TRIOLA and took 2 years to prepare, compose and finally record.
The project TRIOLA was reborn in 2016 with the introduction of a new violinist: Anzu Suhara. Base member Atsuko Hatano provides all the compositions and the band still fonctions as a duo violin / viola plus the guests when playing live or on recordings.

Though Atsuko regards her compositions as simple ones, one can directly hear the complexity of the arrangements and the always search for special sounds and layers.

Anzu Suhara (violin - Japan) is interested in experimental music and has collaborated and recorded with various orchestra such as ASA-C HANG & pilgrimage, NHK dynasty gong and Hikaru Utada as "Anzu Suhara strings » and many other acts.

Atsuko Hatano (viola and composition - Japan) is a viola player using her instrument with a lot of electronics to add textures and layers to her sound. Definitely contemporary classical but with a very electronic approach. She made a conceptual, avant-garde and organic album in 2018 called ‘Cells #2’ which sounds like a full strings orchestra tough it’s entirely played by herself adding layers with her string viola in form of ‘Cells’. When not playing solo, Atsuko is extremely active recording, collaborating and playing live with Jim O.Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, Mocky and many more acts.

Tracklist:

1. Chiral 11
2. Phantom Waltz
3. Runaway Mirrorball
4. Halo
5. Twin Spirals
6. 13HZ Cipher
7. Back Fire
8. Masdevallia