Austrian musicians Klaus Paier and Gerald Preinfalk as well as Croatian Asja Valcic have formed a fascinating trio as their new creative grounds. Paier has been exploring the nuances of accordion and bandoneon playing, and traveling between jazz, world music and classical elements for decades. His curiosity and thirst for exploring sounds led him to design his own instrument, named “Passion”. Croatian cellist Asja Valcic found a way from classical music to improvisation. She played in chamber ensembles and co-founded the multistylistic radio.string.quartet.vienna. In jazz, she worked in a trio with Joachim Kühn and Prabhu Edouard, as well as in the quartet Fulsome X with Wolfgang Puschnig. Gerald Preinfalk presents contemporary music with the renowned Klangforum Wien and has also performed with the Wiener Philharmoniker. He played jazz in bands with George Garzone, Don Byron, Alegre Corrêa, Django Bates, Christian Muthspiel, Wolfgang Muthspiel, and in big bands such as the Vienna Art Orchestra.

All three musicians contribute own compositions to the trio’s repertoire, further developing their creative journey between jazz, contemporary, classical and world music together. Within the written forms, there is ample room for fine tuned improvisation and solo highlights, appealing to the demanding music listener. In terms of its dynamics, virtuosity and fragility, the kaleidoscope of audiophonics devised on their new album Fractal Beauty is a bold blueprint on the path to perfection in sound that offers a balance of freedom and form, complex music and compelling melodies, suspense and release, and above all the purest of poetry.