“While the group occasionally looks back the main focus of its gaze is always forwards to music that echoes from the 1990s and the millennia beyond. Using the touchstones of programmatic music, serialism and minimalism the group pushes all of the relevant buttons: romance, playfulness, caprice and quickfire contrasts that inform the rhythmic propulsion of the music. This makes for a fuller-toned conversation between contrasting timbres and tonal colours that come from the widely divergent instruments. These musicians also show a propensity to ruminate in the magnificence of Kaltenecker’s compositions which give each member of the trio ample room to breathe to show off the maximum drama of the work.” wrote Canadian critic Raul da Gama about Zone, the trio's new CD released in September 2015 on BMC Records.

Openness and the crossing of imagined or real boundaries are the primary motivations for the members of the trio 1705. Thanks to this approach the trio's music gives a homogeneous whole, nonetheless, combining dozens of influences: the melody and dynamism of popular music, the freshness of electronic music, the straining of classical music to achieve harmony, the diversity of world music and, of course, the freedom of jazz and its delicate combinations. In addition to arcing improvisations that often seem to drift towards infinity, Zsolt's piano play often builds on the complete independence of his two hands and is immediately recognisable, András' unusual set of percussion instruments (on which he sometimes plays with almost complete freedom, sometimes like a sophistically programmed drum machine). Attila Fehérvári joined the group in the summer 2016.

The trio will record the material to their second album in a couple of weeks at the BMC Studio.

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