PRIM (AUT)

"Our music is a bit like ordering a scoop of everything at the ice cream parlour and then mixing it wildly," Martin Melzer explains. From modern jazz to funk and soul to classical, there is something of everything. PRIM experiments with sounds and schemes, stories are told with childlike joy, narratives are built up, sounds are sketched - and then broken up again. In doing so, they playfully move between tranquillity and intoxication, volatility and meditative minimalism, fast caffeine flashes and slow coffee indulgences. 

Founded by Biller, they have been performing together in their current line-up since the end of 2018. With the previous album Garnet Tales, they were already proving their willingness to experiment and are now stepping into a new era of the trio with their latest, highly inventive, record Meridian Steps (2023, Alessa Records).