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In 2003 electronic and jazz musician Brett Sroka formed
Ergo, a trio with keyboardist Carl Maguire and drummer Shawn Baltazor.
They debuted with
Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005 (Actuator, 2006)
the same year when Maguire released his solo
Floriculture (Between the Lines, 2005).
After the tense overture of Rana Sylvatica,
Multitude Solitude (Cuneiform, 2009) plunges into the
sleepy bluesy watery languor of the 12-minute Vessel, a good example of
how the trio smother simple melodies into viscuous trombone-piano interplay
against the backdrop of inventive and tumultuous drumming.
The mostly tender She Haunts Me
peaks with a very haunting middle section in which the keyboards whisper to each other.
The eleven-minute Endlessly begins mournful and almost slow-motion, and
then adds pomp and melodrama to what sounds like a requiem.
The apparently aimless nine-minute Actuator is the most abstract piece.
Here the melodic center that was already fuzzy and fluctuating in the other
pieces tends to dissolve as a mere chimera, with the music languishing in the
state of sonic amoeba.
Sroka also formed the sextet Hearsay:
Brett Sroka on trombone, Avishai Cohen on trumpet, Aaron Stewart on tenor sax,
Jason Moran on piano, John Sullivan on bass and Eric Harland on drums.
They debuted with Hearsay (february 2001).
Sroka also composed (premiered in october 2002) for
trombone, piano, bass and drums.
Ergo's If Not Inertia (2012) features
Brett Sroka on trombone and computer, Sam Harris on
keyboards and Shawn Baltazor on drums, plus two guest guitarists.
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