Tri Continental - Drifting (2004)

Drifting is the current album of the three and was released in 2004. So the gentlemen continue to follow their solo thread. Nevertheless, the coloboration of the three is without expiration date. The double album live from 2002 found itself with outstanding ratings in the specialist magazines. Maybe drifting can go there.

Drifting is also a recording under live conditions. Coming from America extra to Germany and recorded under Hamburg climate.

Blue Bird makes the beginning. Bill Bourn's croaky voice you like or dislike. It also has more of a vocal component than fine articulation. Fine percussion and guitars are heard for a live recording very neat. Either you switch off here or you can completely on the plate. Grinnin In Your Face continues with a Bluish theme. What is better than three times six pages? To play a wonderful game for each other and to play against each other. Salama goes to another corner of the world and lets Madagascar Slim speak. An exotic style but always subordinated to the music and so Salama gets a distinctive touch. Especially as Madagascar Slim has this dark timbre.

With the T-Bone Shuffle we go to the southern states of the USA and let us be enchanted by the blues. At least here you can guess why the three men like to play live together, because this great momentum that sets itself in their performances transfers to their game and we wish that we had been there. One Love, because you can lean back and listen wonderfully in the candlelight. If you close your eyes you think the musicians are playing in front of you and just for you. Greatly interpreted and played, everything seems very easy, but hides behind the ease and level. You also save the raving through the song. Gumbo No. 1 is also a song to listen to, here are some great things to hear. But I find the Gumbo No. 1 not completely convinced, somehow I have the feeling that the decisive turn to the finals is missing.

Big Boss Man an Elvis number is given the best and reinterpreted. Great also that you finally find time to use the spruce wood ceiling of the guitar for the drum solo. Well done. With The Gift it gets more mystical and exciting again. A song with barely recognizable destination, but plenty of room to improvise. Room Full Of Mirrors is the longest and last song on drifting with over ten minutes. Room Full Of Mirrors is another example of how Tri Continental manages to enchant listeners without much effect toys. A long, farewell farewell. Everyone is allowed to play one last long solo before the last curtain falls.

Conclusion:
Actually the miracle lies in the fact that one managed to let three different types play together and at the same time to get a live atmosphere into the living room. A music that does not fit in any genre. Either you like it or leave it alone. But you can be sure, at some point you will like it and appreciate it. Drifting is so wonderfully unobtrusive and timeless that the album can be bought confidently.