c_RL Set 1 June 8, 2018

c_RL is an innovative improvising trio that features three of Toronto’s notable performer/composers: Allison Cameron, electronics/found objects/keyboards, Germaine Liu, percussion and Nicole Rampersaud, trumpet. The trio has performed at Music (in) Galleries, Somewhere There, The Tranzac and as part of Lab Space’s Hot Soup multi-disciplinary series among other Toronto venues. Among their gigs, c_RL was featured at the Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston performing with Malcolm Goldstein and more recently they opened for Friendly Rich at The Cameron House in Toronto.

The Group has a mutual interest in exploring the sonic palette of trumpet, percussion and electronics. Their exploratory approach to timbre and gesture and interest in incorporating ‘found sounds’ has quickly become a trademark of their colourful sonic world. Although c_RL is primarily an improvising trio, they are also interested in structural approaches to composition such as in deconstructing and re-inventing the jazz standard repertoire – thinking of such radical departures as Derek Bailey or even Ran Blake