Zane Massey and Matthew Mitchell were first brought together in mid 2016 by mutual friend and collaborator, Hungarian bassist Andor Horváth, and a musical rapport was immediately obvious to the three. The trio was soon joined by one of Holland’s finest modern jazz drummers Wim Kegel who assimilated into the music immediately. With a repertoire of original material composed for the band by Mitchell, the group’s sound is evocative of their diverse roots, the sounds disparate continents coming together to form an eloquent whole that truly speaks in the languages of American and European jazz tradition, free music, the folk music of Hungary and the raw accents of Oceania.

Zane Massey is the son of the legendary trumpeter Cal Massey who worked with and wrote music for John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard and many others. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York surrounded by jazz. Zane himself was a member of The Decoding Society, the late Ronald Shannon Jackson’s legendary blend of avant-garde jazz, rock, funk, and ethnic music, performed and recorded with Roy Campbell and released two records under his own name for the Delmark label. New Zealand guitarist Matthew Mitchell is based in Dortmund and Budapest and has worked all over the world in a vast array of genres including contemporary jazz, free jazz, African music, Indian classical music, new contemporary music and electronica. 

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