Troyka

Kit Downes (Hammond organ/synths), Chris Montague (guitar/loops), Josh Blackmore (drums)

Troyka are an experimental British trio who make rich and enthralling instrumental music. Featuring Kit Downes (once Mercury nominated in his own right) on keyboards, Chris Montague on guitar/loops and Josh Blackmore on drums, Troyka is far more than the sum of its parts and is definitely not your usual Hammond organ trio.

Ornithophobia is the London three-piece’s third studio album (their first under the Naim label) and truly marks the fruition of five years’ worth of musical experimentation.

Influenced by the likes of Tim Berne, Aphex Twin, Deerhoof, Albert King and Flying Lotus, their music is intense, ambitious and radical. Unpredictable, yet catchy melodies, woven into complex time signatures may be a trade mark of the trio at full swing, but it is the flavours of textural beds, polyrhythmic post-dance, haunting trip-hop and atmospheric post-rock that make this record a sensation of the heart as well as the mind.

We’re thrilled to present Troyka once again having presented them in 2012. We can’t recommend this razor-sharp trio highly enough.