Show #188: ToC (France) Wednesday April 3

About Toc :

Live at General Assembly (5b Fairmont Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario)
Doors at 7:00. Music at 7:30pm. Admission $5-10 PWYC (all money goes to
touring musicians). No one turned away and all are welcome.

Toc is French jazz-core trio founded in 2008
with Jérémie Ternoy on Fender Rhodes, Ivann Cruz on guitar, and Peter
Orins on drums. Playing the density and the organic, daring the trance
in a joyful and catchy tension, Toc provides energetic improvised music.
Noise, post-rock, psychedelic, experimental pop, kraut or jazz
hardcore, difficult to classify the music of this trio as it blurs the
tracks and tries to take us where we did not expect.

Toc plays
regularly in throughout Europe, and has released six CDs: Le Gorille
(Circum-Disc, 2008), You Can Dance (If You Want) (Circum-Disc, 2011) and
Haircut (Circum-Disc/Tandori Records/Besides Records, 2014) in its
electric version ; Qeqertarsuatsiaat (Circum-Disc, 2016) – acoustic ;
Air Bump (Circum-Disc, 2016) with the Compulsive Brass ; and finally
Will Never Play These Songs Again (Circum-Disc 2018)

About the musicians :

Jérémie
Ternoy is a French pianist. He leads his own trio from 2000 with
Nicolas Mahieux on double-bass and Charles Duytschaever on drums (three
CDs). From 2010 he works a lot with drummer Jacques Mahieux (a CD with
Geraldine Laurent, Olivier Benoit and Nicolas Mahieux), vocalist Kristof
Hiriart, clarinetist Sylvain Kassap (a quartet with Claude Tchamitchian
and Hamid Drake), guitarist Gérard Marais (quartet with Henri Texier
and Christophe Marguet). Between 2012 and 2015, Jérémie Ternoy is
the keyboard player of legendary band Magma leaded by drummer Christian
Vander.

Ivann Cruz is a French guitarist, member of the Muzzix
collective based in Lille. Taking part of various project of the
collective such as La Pieuvre (improvisation big band conducted by
Olivier Benoit), Arsis, Trading Litany, he also works and write for
musical theatre. He played with lots of musicians: Maciej Garbowski,
Jean-François Canape, Philippe Deschepper, Jean-Marc Montera, Edward
Perraud, Fred Van Hove…

Peter Orins is a French drummer, one of
the founder of the Muzzix collective. Playing in various jazz bands in
Lille from the early 90’s, he developed over the years his play
in experimental and improvised music projects. In 2010 he founded the
quartet Kaze with Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura and Christian Pruvost
that released three CDs and made several tours in Europe, US, Canada,
Japan or Australia. He plays now with a lot of musicians inside or
outside the Muzzix collective : Dave Rempis, Sophie Agnel, Didier
Lasserre, Maciej Garbowski, Jarry Singla, Didier Aschour, …

Press :

« (…) this is great stuff, but it’s not for the faint of heart. » Exposé / Peter Thellen

« Now this is just absolutely fabulous. » Wonderful Wooden Reasons / Ian Holloway

« TOC offers a brilliant and inventive blend of genres, sounds and attitudes. » All About Jazz / Eyal Hareuveni

«
So a multisided trio, but on the other hand you feel everything comes
from the same source. Whatever they do, there is some obsessiveness in
their music that makes them a little bit related to Magma and other
Zeuhl-like bands. I had some breathtaking moments during this trip and
felt exhausted at the end, but also deeply satisfied. Chapeau! » Vital
Weekly

« Angular and free in every sense of the word, TOC &
The Compulsive Brass provide a unique, unfamiliar, and welcome take on
modern jazz. Highly recommended. » Avant Music News – Mark Moreno

«
(…) The established interplay of the trio, solidified on previous three
albums of TOC, as well as the extensive experience of the resourceful
Ternoy, Cruz and Orins in many other projects contribute to the success
of this sonic adventure. The trio knows how to sketch multilayered and
intriguing textures that flow organically by their inner logic. (…)
All these pieces sound fresh, eccentric with its inventive approach, but
surprisingly coherent. » Free Jazz Collective – Eyal Hareuveni