{"id":8913,"date":"2013-06-18T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2013-06-18T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T02:57:05","slug":"trilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/06\/18\/trilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"new music: TRILINGUAL ep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Trails-and-Ways-CD-cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8914\" alt=\"Trails and Ways CD cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Trails-and-Ways-CD-cover-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Trails-and-Ways-CD-cover.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Trails-and-Ways-CD-cover.jpg?w=163&amp;ssl=1 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>[New Music Review]<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><b>Trails and Ways<\/b> <i><b>Trilingual EP<\/b><\/i><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Self-Released, 2013<\/h4>\n<p><b>Review by Kent Manthie<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oakland-based indie delights Trails and Ways have just released <i>Trilingual<\/i>, an EP that this Bay Area quartet recorded on their own, with no label support, in a collective \u201chouse\u201d-cum-studio in Oak-town, called T. Rex Manor. The four of them, two guys and two gals, Keith Brower Brown, Emma Oppen, Hannah van Loon and Ian Quirk, have just put together five tracks that appear on this brand new EP, <i>Trilingual, <\/i>an aptly titled album for a band who mix together songs with lyrics in English, Spanish and Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>This whole project of Trails and Ways started after Keith and Emma, the vocalists, had graduated from UC Berkeley and then went abroad in their separate fashions. Keith traveled to Brazil to get a first hand working knowledge of the country&#8217;s renewable energy sector by getting \u201chands-on\u201d experience. This noble endeavor is not atypical of the modern college graduate; many go to Europe or Asia or other parts of the globe and either do further studies or spend a year or so roaming around, seeing the world and \u201cfinding oneself\u201d. Well, this is how Keith spent his time.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the Atlantic, Emma Oppen went to Spain, where she indulged in something a bit different: she immersed herself in a quest for spiritual awakening, adventure and in search of good waves for surfing.<\/p>\n<p>After this time living abroad, both came back to Oakland and crafted a v<\/p>\n<p>ision for a sound of music that was a hybrid of all they had experienced and added some original stuff to it as well; Keith brought back a mind full of ideas that included bossanova and Brazilian Jazz; Emma brought back with her a concise, tightly woven songwriting craft that the two put together. The third element that was added was the addition of more familiar but nonetheless stunning and warm but sometimes rough and raw fringes of \u201cbasement-based\u201d dream-pop.<\/p>\n<p>When they&#8217;d returned to Oakland, the two hooked up with two more mates, classically-trained musicians, Ian Quirk and Hannah von Loon, both of whom h<\/p>\n<p>ad been musical since their childhood. Ian has been an evolving,constantly practicing and learning percussionist who is now at ease with the drums, drum machines and various types of rhythm treatments. Von Loon, on the other hand, was raised as a child to play violin as well as piano \u2013 things she took up at the tender age of three. But it wasn&#8217;t until she was in high school that she really fell in love with what would become her passion: guitar. She did a great job in that area by learning the many-faceted grooves of the Beatles catalog.<\/p>\n<p>The four of them have combined to create a fascinating, layered, textured, springy brand of what is indeed trilingual \u2013 their lyrics being in a fluid mix of the three aforementioned languages \u2013 the tongues of the countries the former two had been as well as their native English.<\/p>\n<p>One of the tunes that stick out right away on <i>Trilingual <\/i>is \u201cNunca\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>a comfortable layering of equatorial splendors and American club beats and a mesmerizing fluidity of vocals, shared by both Keith and Emma. The first cut, \u201cComo Te Va\u201d has a little of the Cocteau Twins&#8217; sound injected into it as well as a beginning that made me think of Stereolab, but not as high up in the clouds. On \u201cTereza\u201d Emma sings with a breathless energy that is both plaintive and seductive.<\/p>\n<p>With the travels Keith and Emma did, far and wide as well as the extensive musical accomplishment of Ian and Hannah, this EP has a special vibe to it, one that is not derivative or a knock off of 100 other bands you hear coming and going all the time on FM radio. It&#8217;s not edgy or raw, not too ethereal, but a swimmingly pop sunbath. I sure hope that more is heard from this quartet of unique individuals soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<b>KM.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[New Music Review] Trails and Ways Trilingual EP Tweet Self-Released, 2013 Review by Kent Manthie Oakland-based indie delights Trails and Ways have just released Trilingual, an EP that this Bay Area quartet recorded on their own, with no label support, in a collective \u201chouse\u201d-cum-studio in Oak-town, called T. Rex Manor. The four of them, two guys and two gals, Keith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13078,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2016\/01\/07\/new-music-true-violet-ep-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":8913,"position":0},"title":"new music: True Violet ep review","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"January 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[EP]True Violetmore than just another girl bandTrue Violet (self-titled EP) girl band music from show at C.I.A. in Burbank, truevioletmusic.com Poppy but hard too, the band is like their name: regally attractive. 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