Zed Trio - Lost Transitions

Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG Newsletter

The Zed Trio features Heddy Boubaker on alto & bass saxes, David Lataillade on electric guitar and Frederic Vaudaux on drums & percussion. This freaky French improv trio features saxist Heddy Boubaker who appears on a few discs from the Creative Sources label. If you've never seen a bass sax you should realize how big it is and how hard it is to play. The few saxists I've seen/heard play it include Anthony Braxton, JD Parran, Tony Bevan & Colin Stetson. 'Lost Transitions' is a throttling, power trio of intense improv madness. Over-the -top yet still tight and focused. Much of this reminds of 'Topography of the Lungs', with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink. Brutal, intense, scary and quite impressive with energy to spare. Even when they turn the volume down, they remain intense and tightly wound. Fans of the Thing, Zu and/or Last Exit should mostly likely enjoy this although they do lay back a bit at times. But not for very long. Their whirlwind force can be devastating.