The GAUDI KOSMISCHES TRIO is a new recording and live project led by Grammy-Award nominee, producer, and solo artist Gaudi, featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree on bass and De Palma on guitars. A global favourite in the psychedelic-dub and electronica scenes, Gaudi continues to feed his loyal fanbase with his infectious bass-driven grooves and innovative production techniques.

An up-tempo formula of retro beats and analogue sounds, their debut album is an exciting fusion of Krautrock and psychedelic dub, recorded using vintage studio equipment and analogue original instrumentation from the 70s and 80s, mixed and produced by Gaudi at his Metatron Studio in London.

Torpedo Forward is available now as a limited edition audiophile 180-gram black vinyl, cd, digital download and via all major streaming services.

The trio has been performing live and recording together since Gaudi’s 2016 album ‘Magnetic’ and subsequent worldwide tour. Partly inspired by their Magnetic live performances together, the GAUDI KOSMISCHES TRIO sound metamorphosised from their live shows and such was the response to the music, the three musicians decided to make an album together, creating an accurate snapshot of where their interests and influences collide.

Over a period of time, the music developed considerably. The idea of just an archival type recording went much further than expected, once they decided to enter the studio and start composing new tracks, evolving the sound into a much more complex sonic territory and consolidate a new original cross-over formula of “Krautrock meets Dub”.

In keeping with the exploratory nature of the recording process, there is no specific artist influence to the GAUDI KOSMISCHES TRIO, but more a specific era and its freeform of interpreting what music means. From the motorik rhythms of album opener ‘Owa Owa Owa’ and automated soundscapes of ‘Torpedo Forward’, to the lurching, psychedelic avant rock feel to ‘Kufu’, and distinctive and quirky ‘In A Modern World’, there’s an obvious and undeniable pathway from the classic 70s Krautrock movement in Germany, mixed with an overall uptempo electronic sensibility and a few slices of intentionally playful psychedelia thrown in for good measure.

“The recording process was very spontaneous and pretty straight-forward, starting in June 2023 and finishing in September 2023, then it took 4 more months for me to produce it, arrange it and mix it, as it has been made with an “old-school” approach, using traditional studio techniques, such as recording some of the elements on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and mixing it live on my 32 channel analogue mixing console,” says Gaudi who plays synthesisers, theremin alongside vocoder and voice on ‘Torpedo Forward’.

Each track started with the trio jamming in the studio for days while recording all the sessions and subsequently capturing the best moments. Once these were selected, the trio then transformed what they had into individual tracks. Each track across the album was created using the same process except ‘Omoka’, which was mixed on a plane at 38,000 feet of altitude during Gaudi’s tour of Australasia last January – named after the small island in the South Pacific Ocean the plane was flying over at the time.

Gaudi

The Grammy-Award nomination with reggae band Steel Pulse for his production work on their album ‘Mass Manipulation’ (2019), followed by three #1 in the Billboard chart as a musician and songwriter on releases with Lee “Scratch” Perry, Horace Andy, Steel Pulse and Hollie Cook, consolidate his credentials earning him the title of one of the most sought-after dub producers in the dub-electronica scene.

For the past three and a half decades, he has been shattering genre barriers, pioneering psychedelic-influenced dub, world music and reggae, amassing a stunning collection of originals, remixes, collaborations and production works with and for artists such as: The Orb, Groove Armada, Tricky, Mad Professor, Don Letts, Deep Forest, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, UB40, Hollie Cook, Terry Hall of The Specials, Trentemøller, Simple Minds, African Head Charge, Brian Ferry, Youth, BCUC, Lamb, Sizzla, Capleton, Steel Pulse, Dub FX, Shpongle, Horace Andy, Havana Meets Kingston, Michael Franti, Dub Pistols, Grandmaster Flash, The Beat, Afrika Bambaataa to name but a few.

As an accomplished keyboardist and theremin player, he is also part of live acts whom which sporadically performs with, such as: African Head Charge, The Orb, Deep Forest, Steel Pulse, Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Don Letts, Scott Page and Roberta Freeman of Pink Floyd, Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction, Norwood Fisher of Fishbone and Youth of Killing Joke. Beyond the music, a burning passion reveals itself in a scathing rebuttal of tyranny and oppression through sonic resistance. In constant demand on the live touring and festival circuits, Gaudi spreads the words of peace and love on every stop, performing at some of the best worldwide clubs and festivals.

He has released 19 solo albums, over 350 productions and remixes plus a number of movie soundtracks.

Colin Edwin

Whilst perhaps best known as founder member bassist of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, Edwin’s creative bass playing and open approach to music have lead him to collaborate with a variety of like-minded and inventive musicians, including former Henry Cow multi-instrumentalist Geoff Leigh (as Ex-Wise Heads), innovative Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal, experimentalist Eraldo Bernocchi (as Metallic Taste of Blood), female Ukrainian vocalist Inna Kovtun and fellow bassist Lorenzo Feliciati in the critically acclaimed bass duo Twinscapes.

In 2015 he formed the band O.R.k. alongside King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, vocalist Lef and guitarist Carmelo Pipitone, O.R.k, have released four full length albums to date and have toured both Europe and South America. In 2017, he featured on Gaudi’s ‘Magnetic’ album. He is also a member of the high functioning improvising collective Fractal Sextet and maintains a long running collaboration (as Burnt Belief) with US “cloud guitarist” Jon Durant.

De Palma

Pippo De Palma is a London-based musician with 30 years’ experience both as a studio session musician and live performer. He is also part of Alix, a shoegaze/indie rock band produced by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Stooges, Pixies, PJ Harvey). He has collaborated with Gaudi since 2014, forming a strong working relationship and has been involved with numerous productions including guitarist for the Gaudi Kosmisches Trio.

Tracklisting

1. ‘Owa Owa Owa’

2. ‘Torpedo Forward’

3. ‘Kufu’

4. ‘In A Modern World’

5. ‘Vom Mond Zum Roten Planeten’

6. ‘Luxury Squat’

7. ‘Omoka’

Bonus Track: In A Modern World (Dub Spencer & Trance Hill - Dub Remix)

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