Trigon

There are several bands called "Trigon": 1. A German based band formed in 1989 in Karlsruhe by the brothers Stefan Lange and Rainer Lange. Their history is carved by the numerous changes in line-up which contributed to Trigon's creative potential as the band draws heavily on jamming as a source for their music, thus the input of each band member adds to the overall flavour of their music. Trigon came alive in 1989, after its predecessors continually lost its lead singers. With Ralf Wochele on drums (later drummer of Fool's Garden) Trigon's first studio CD "Nova" was recorded.

1. A German based band formed in 1989 in Karlsruhe by the brothers Stefan Lange and Rainer Lange. Their history is carved by the numerous changes in line-up which contributed to Trigon's creative potential as the band draws heavily on jamming as a source for their music, thus the input of each band member adds to the overall flavour of their music. Trigon came alive in 1989, after its predecessors continually lost its lead singers. With Ralf Wochele on drums (later drummer of Fool's Garden) Trigon's first studio CD "Nova" was recorded. When Ralf developed an increasingly pop-orientated style Thomas Zimmer (Purple Haze) took on the job as stickman. In this line-up they appeared several times at the Karlsruhe's "Schauburg Jazzfest". When it became obvious that Thomas preferred to play cover music rather than develop original material he passed the sticks to Kirk Erickson (Seak Preview). In this new line-up the band jammed for several years until Kirk moved back to the USA. Next on drums came Daniel Beckmann (ishni) who had been introduced to the band by Kirk and Trigon recorded their second studio album "Beschraenkte Haftung". Daniel brought a fresh creative impulse to the band and subsequently Trigon released several live albums of jam sessions, did a tour in the Netherlands, and could experience the overwhelming feeling of playing larger festivals. At the beginning of 2003, it turned out that Daniel prefered harder and more defined structures in music, so consequently he founded a band called downgrade and left. In his place an old friend of the band, Tihomir Lozanovski (breakhouse, Big Band Skopje), came on board. End of 2009 he went back to his homeland Macedonia. His successor is Rudi Metzler (Poseidon).

The band has become a gladly-seen guest on various festivals. As for example national on the Art-Rock Festival, on the ProgParade, several times on the Burg Herzberg Festival and at the Zappanale. International they were for example at the BajaProg-Festival 2005 in Mexicali (Baja California, M?xico) and at the Festival Crescendo near Bordeaux in France. 2005 they accompanied Nektar at their Europetour.

Trigon's last live CD "Herzberg 2004" was recorded at the Burg Herzberg Festival 2004. Before the show they met up with Frogg Cafe at Trigon's rehearsal studio where Frogg Cafe's members could 'stretch their fingers' before driving to the festival. They encountered some common interests which resulted in Nick Lieto lending a hand with his flugelhorn on two songs.

The last live DVD "Live 2007" was recorded at the Zappanale.

Official Website

1. An ethno jazz band Trigon from Moldova.
Trigon released their first CD "Moldavian Wedding in Jazz" in France (SILEX) and immediately received the French music award "Grand Prix du Disc". Their second album, "Oglinda" was released in Germany (Jaro). During 1996-1999 the group toured Europe and the ex-USSR countries extensively always to a critical acclaim.
Their highly acclaimed concert in Germany took place in April 1998 at the "Hamburg Jazz Festival" in the cities famous cultural center "Fabrik". Since then they have performed frequently in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Moldova and Russia.
2000 saw the release of their 3-d album, "Free Gone" (Boheme Music, Russia) with Alexander Murzak substituting for Testimatsanu. Trigon recorded their 4-th CD, "The Voice Of My Earth" (green records, Romania) in 2001.

Trigon, Actual componence:
Anatol ?tef?ne? - viola
Anatol Stefanet - leader of group and Art director of Ethno-jazz Festival is known as a virtuoso of the viola. As leader of folk orchestra he recorded in France 3 CDs. One of his solo CDs "Anatol Stefanet - bratsch solo" was marked by French press as CHOCK of "Musique du Monde" in 1999 and 2002 years. Like a special guest Anatol Stefanet was participant of International Viola Congress 2001 in New Zealand, Wellington. Since 1996 he is member of Okay Temiz "Black Sea Orchestra" named by the press "all star band" (Virtual Womex) He plays with Enver Izmailov and Vali Boghean in "Sea zone trio " and in international - Berlin Experimenti Orchestra , conducted by Bardo Henning.

Vali Boghean - saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn, flute, kaval, vocal.
Multiinstrumentalist Vali Boghean is the winner of international competitions in Moldova and Rumania, where he was awarded as the best instrumentalist on Festivals "Galbena Gutuie", "Lautarii Moldovei", "Maria Dragan","Malurile Dunarii", "Maria Tanase".

Dorel Burlacu - keyboards, piano, harmonica
Dorel Burlacu began his professional career in 1993, after the graduating with excellent notes, of musical college and Music academy (faculty of jazz piano and orchestral conductor). In 1997 - 1999 he was conductor and pianist of the international orchestra, conducting Polish jazz group "CORONA". He is one of the founders of the projects: funky and afro Cuban music "Baila conmigo". Collaborated with Rock'n'Roll groups "Cuibul" and "The Snails" and jazz groups "Select-X", "UNIVOX" and with the German jazz musicians Hans-Gunther Adam and Stevie Woods, he toured in Holland, Germany, Russia and Ukraine performing at festivals, competitions, telecast, and sessions.

Gari Tverdohleb - drums, percussion, xylophone
Gari Tverdohleb - graduated of Academy of Arts from Chisinau as percussionist and jazz drummer. He played in numerous jazz and rock projects and has participated at jazz festivals in Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Rumania and Holland. He is a sensitive accompanist with a delicate touch, but can build up a storm when it is necessary.

Trigon's official website
www.trigonjazz.com/

3. There was a band from Finland using this name too, but changed it 2005 to Smokesuit.

4. Trigon was also nickname and an artistname for a young Finnish guy making Trance/Electro/IDM solo-projects with the same name.

5. Trigon is the name of a German ensemble playing early music: http://www.ensemble-trigon.de/