Trio Ivoire, Hans Lüdemann, Aly Keïta & Christian Thomé - Resurrection (2025) [Hi-Res]

TRIO IVOIRE has been around for 25 years! Who would have predicted this when pianist Hans Lüdemann first met balafon virtuoso Aly Keita in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, during a solo tour of West Africa with the Goethe-Institut in 1999? They hit it off right away, and shortly afterwards the two founded TRIO IVOIRE in Cologne with British drummer Steve Argüelles as the third member of the trio – Christian Thomé joined the trio in 2013. Not only is the trio's instrumentation of piano, balafon, drums, and electronics unique, but so is the music, which draws its tension from the contrasts and vast distances between the musicians' personal roots. Both are probably reasons why TRIO IVOIRE has such lasting power and why the collaboration has remained exciting to this day. To celebrate this, the trio is presenting a completely new program on their new album “Resurrection,” which will be released in fall 2025 on INTUITION. The official release date of the album has been postponed to October, but the musicians will already have the new album with them on their concert tour in September. The next tour is planned for spring.