Play Station by Motion Trio. A five year old girl happens to listen to "Play Station" by Motion Trio. Her eyes light up as she says "Its lovely. They seem like dancing dinosaurs". Its incredible how the absence of preconceived ideas allows children to capture the essence of things with a single image. Not only, the smile on the little girls face demonstrates that the sense of irony of the trio has been understood. Based around powerful bass riffs from which intermittently cyclical melodies appear, the tunes on this CD capture the attention of the listener whilst entertaining him. The cover notes advise that Motion Trio have re-invented the accordion for the 21st century with sonoric explosions, scintillating triplets and tribal rhythms. It is difficult to disagree. Even the song titles are explicit. For example, we pass from the seductive and oriental "Tranceaccordion" and "Chinatown" to the modern "UFO" , "Helicopter" , "Yellow Trabant" (a great title in my opinion) and finishing with "You dance", "Tilt" and "Game Over". This last track a celebration of sounds and infantile micro melodies from video games with which the composers show that they have had fun. "Stars" on the other hand is a separate style from the rest of the album and proposes a moment of reflection when the child within us seems to stop to contemplate, astonished, the world around us. All of these different sound variations and situations are provided by only 3 accordions and one should really give credit to the 3 polish musicians who have truly squeezed their bellows towards unexplored directions. Review by Renato Belardinelli |
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