Sheen Trio “Transitory”

What's it about?

Iran, GermanyShabnam Parvaresh - bass clarinet, clarinet, FXUla Martyn-Ellis - guitarPhilipp Buck - drums"Sheen", meaning "shine" in English, stands in the Persian alphabet for the sixteenth letter, the initial letter of the Tehran-born, Osnabrück-based clarinetist, curator, artist and bandleader Shabnam Parvaresh. As pictorially ambiguous, indeed "transitory", as the current album title "Transitory" intends, the Sheen Trio, according to Hans-Dieter Grünefeld in Sonic magazine, combines "avant-garde, romance and folk into an unmistakable sound", plays "electrifying, experimental jazz" (Rolf Thomas, Jazz thing) or "tense post-rock" (Jan Paersch). Embracing the change that our living world dictates, the instrumental stories of the three musicians also deal with poor internet connection in the 1990s or freedom struggles in Iran, sometimes dynamically wriggling out of a "Cocoon", then again melancholically at "Maroggia" or intensely ...