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Bassist/Composer Trevor Dunn reconvenes and expands his genre-blurring Trio-Convulsant for the first time in 18 years with startlingly inventive new album Se´ances.

When we last heard from Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant it was 2004; the bassist/composer was not far removed from the break-up of Avant-Rock provocateurs Mr. Bungle and still freshly relocated to New York and a plunge into the more exploratory end of the city’s Jazz scene. Following up the Surrealism-inspired trio’s obscure 1998 debut “Debutantes & Centipedes” with Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Dunn had reconfigured Trio-Convulsant with a pair of promising but then relatively unknown new voices: guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer/percussionist Ches Smith.

With Trio-Convulsant’s long-awaited follow-up, Se´ances, Dunn draws together those various threads into his most ambitious and deliriously inventive work to date. Se´ances reconvenes the trio with Halvorson and Smith while expanding its possibilities with the addition of Folie a` Quatre, a string and winds quartet comprising four remarkable players and composers in their own rights: violinist/violist Carla Kihlstedt, bass clarinetist Oscar Noriega, cellist Mariel Roberts and flutist Anna Webber..

PERSONNEL:

• Trio-Convulsant:
• Trevor Dunn - (bass)
• Mary Halvorson - (guitar)
• Ches Smith - (drums, timpani, conga)

• With
• Folie à Quatre:
• Carla Kihlstedt - (viola, violin)
• Oscar Noriega - (bass clarinet, clarinet in Bb)
• Mariel Roberts - (cello)
• Anna Webber - (alto flute, flute in C)

TRACKS:

• 01. Secours Meurtriers
• 02. Saint-Médard
• 03. Restore All Things
• 04. 1733
• 05. The Asylum's Guilt
• 06. Eschatology
• 07. Thaumaturge