Trestle Rec - Instrumental Music of All Genres

Trestle Records is pleased to announce the new record from Tout. The aptly named Fourth. Fourth ushers in a change of direction with core members Nick Downes and Jonathan Fryer composing the principle tracks as a duo in their London studio. Once these were established and recorded they both reached out with invitations to a host of collaborators, mostly friends, to complement and expand upon their foundational elements. Fourth finds Tout delving deeper into the bands interest in contemporary classical, jazz and ambient music, whilst still retaining some of the aesthetic preoccupations of the previous records which largely explored folk and new age traditions. The result is a thoughtful and continuously exploratory textural world that is at once melodically satisfying whilst being structurally experimental.

Saudade is the first solo record of guitarist and composer Jonathan Fryer. This collection of pieces were written and recorded in a short period of time during the summer of 2023 and draw on elements touched upon in previous collaborative releases (Tout & Calibos) delving deeper into esoteric, percussive and new age palettes; integrating elements of bossa nova, samba and jazz. Contributions from fellow Trestle Records label mate and long time friend and collaborator Adam Coney (Ashwin & Above & Pavilion) are the only other musical additions which provide a beautiful second voice to tracks ‘Esterel’, ‘Roma’ (Parts I and II) and the jazz infused ‘Visions of Naima’ helping to elevate them further, with all other instruments played by Fryer, meaning this record is a stripped back affair where simplicity is key.

Driftingland is the first collaboration between Adam Coney on guitar and Richard Pike on piano, centring upon a language of deep listening, reverence for sound, restraint and distillation of ideas. At the end of 2021 Pike found himself drifting towards the piano when he befriended Coney. In downtime Pike would film improvisations, as a kind of Friday night constitutional in the colder months, which he would then upload to social media. This was where Coney asked if he could play along to one of the experiments, which became the first offering you hear, Europe At Dawn. After this piece was recorded remotely in their separate home studios, the duo would meet regularly to record their ‘real-time compositions’ and Driftingland was born. Driftingland refers to the geographical area of Thanet in Kent where the artists live, the south-easternmost point of England. An area that was once an island, now a peninsula, and may one day drift into the sea again.