TREVONIC
"No Red Lights, No Red Lights"

ATCD02.2010


Melancholy synth drones, lackadaisical trumpet lines and scattered electronics create the introspective, moody sonic habitat of Trevonic’s music on this sophomore release, No Red Lights, No Red Lights.

Essentially an ambient album, the delicate textures and mercurial soundscapes afford a space for any listener to lose notions of time, mind and place. The thick layers of processed sound flow, pause, turn, pulse, escalate, shift, and descend—a marriage of stasis and dynamicism.

In this sense, Trevonic’s music is for the isolated anonymity of urban experiences, the sojourner in unexpected places, transient moments and the calm that emerges from it all.


Tracklist:

1. Laze (Szex Bolt) 5’37”
2. Seeking to Find 7’35”
3. Leg Up,Head Down 9’42”
4. It’s Different Here 4’14”
5. Rational Iceberg 7’54”
6. Two Thousands Words 7’44”
7. Returns 5’56”
8. Moszkva Ter 48”
9. Rush 7’41”





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REVIEWS

In 2008 Audio Tong released ‘Dirty Maps’ the first album of Trevonic. It contained tracks for trumpet and electronics of very spacious, a bit melancholic, delicate, moody music. This description is also very fitting for his new release ‘No Red Lights, No Red lights’. In an environment of minimalistic and sparse electronics Trever Hagen blows his trumpet or cornet, resulting in effective and moody atmospheres, very spacey and laid back music. Calm and echoing sounds that find their way through the mist of Budapest, Bristol and Prague, where he did his field recordings. In one track Hagen is assisted by another musician. On ’Moszkva Ter' Zoltan Dujisin plays the piano. This kind of music is absolutely not spectacular or demanding in any sense. The more this indicates Hagen is master of his craft, as his ambient music is absolutely THERE.

(Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly)


For those that feel that there is too much "sameness" in ambient music recently, the recent AutioTong release by Trevonic , "No Red Light, No Red Light " maybe a welcome change.

On "No Red Lights, No Red Lights" Trever Hagen (Trevonic) plays solo trumpet over electronic background sounds. The background is essentially ambient music: calm, but also glitchy and varying in style and mood.

What makes this album differ from many others is the way Hagen uses his trumpet with this background. It's relatively loud in the overall mix which feels as if he's improvising over the electronic background.

He's nót playing the breathy Jon Hassell(/Nils Petter Molvaer/Arve Henriksen) style most often used in combintion with 'ambient music' and uses his instrument in straightforward jazz-style.

In fact, "No Red Lights, No Red Lights" could very well be called a "jazz" - album. (It sometimes reminded me of some of the ECM-albums by saxophone player John Surman).

Due to it's jazzy nature, this is not "ambient music of the 'ignorable' kind". It's "electronic music of the jazzy kind".

Trevonic manages to present an original approach in combining abstract electronics with playing the trumpet, a combination that is not heard very much in this music this way.

Very refreshing!

(Peter van Cooten, ambientblog.net)