Colleen/Triosk Holy Trinity Church, Leeds Subtle and elegiac, the music of Cecile Schott - aka Colleen - demands a quiet setting with excellent acoustics - and in the atmospheric surroundings of Holy Trinity Church it certainly found it.
Playing a variety of instruments, including guitar, clarinet, miniature bells and the viola da gamba - a 17th Century cross between the violin and the cello - the 30-year-old French composer treated an attentive audience to a sneak preview of tracks from her soon-to-be-released third album Les Ondes Silencieuses, plus a smattering of older material.
The pace may have been sedate and the tone melancholy, but her 45-minute set was a bittersweet delight; her delicately textured songs drawing on everything from the baroque austerity of Marin Marais and John Dowland to the minimal experimentalism of Steve Reich, with even the occasional nod to the hazy loops and drones of My Bloody Valentine.
Australian three-piece Triosk, sadly, lacked the same emotional clout. Adrian Klumpes (piano and laptop), Laurence Pike (drums) and Ben Waples (electric and double bass) are very proficient at what they do - improvised jazz with an electronic element - but their extended soundscapes' are jazz at its most cerebral.
Overall, though, an enjoyable evening out.
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