Live Review | Moses Yoofee Trio @ Strange Brew, Bristol

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Berlin jazz group Moses Yoofee trio brought their incredible new album ‘MYT’ to Bristol’s Strange Brew

Jazz outfit Moses Yoofee trio haunted and probed listeners’ souls with an alchemy of keyboard samples, expert drum playing and yearning, tasteful guitar and bass parts at Bristol’s Strange Brew.

The venue was lit up with the electric jazz fusion fervour of Moses Yoofee Trio touring their latest album ‘MYT‘, all to a sea of people in a sold-out Strange Brew that ebbed and flowed with the immense tunes that poured from the stage.

Noah Fürbringer’s drums, bedecked with a spiral stacker cymbal, face-smacking snare and innovative drum pad hypnotised listeners into a trance-like state. A sense of awe was palpable amongst the crowd – people knew they were witnessing three talents that begged the question ‘How on earth did they pull that off’? 

Moses Yoofee’s keyboard interplay with the drums and bass illuminated the band’s unmistakable connection and cohesiveness – sometimes parts were following one another – a high piano part mirrored in the bass, a rapid tom-fill echoed in a ‘sample state’ on the keyboard.

Other times, Yoofee’s keyboard was in a musical league and avenue of its own, carving its own path – headstrong, dramatic, yet sometimes feeble, melancholy, always satisfying the listeners desires by effortlessly bringing the songs to a build or a crescendo. Reinstating the listeners sense of place in the song after stumbling in confusion to where the 1 was or what tempo the song was in.

The trio never tired and achieved what jazz is all about, opening songs with easy hooks and melodies to follow but quickly exploring the scales, voicing, dynamics and phrasing of what those melodies can offer.

The blue hue that drenched the stage for the final song, ‘OCEAN’, had an ethereal quality, like exploring the unknown masses of the ocean. The music underpinned this feeling by using sample sounds from the drum pad that were alien-like, industrial, echoing and reverberating around the hull of the listeners’ souls – achingly asking them to search within them.

The repetitive high-octave keyboard parts that sounded like the intermittent beep of a satellite orbiting the earth, were established by a bass that felt as if it had travelled from the depths of space primarily to reach the drums and piano – urging them to prominence.

Moses Yoofee Trio did not disappoint; their talent is something to study, demeanor something to emanate and passion something to seek.

Listen to ‘MYT’ here:

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