Gauthier Toux Trio ‘The Biggest Steps’

Pianist Gauthier Toux was, not long ago, a promising young artist. And now he is knocking today, at barely 28 years old, at the door of the big leagues, joining without agitation the small world of those with whom he will now have to reckon. After an impressive detour into the world of electric and electronic music, he returned to acoustic business in a formula that had fascinated him since his adolescence, the trio. Freed from classic shapes, each instrument nestles in the hollow of the others, and it is no longer just its function that takes precedence. Also we will hear the drums tell us melodies, the bass draw countermelodies and the piano offer us an implacable rhythmic framework. The trio is thought out in an orchestral way, exploring all the options, all the possible arrangements.