ABOUT

Perceptions Trio reinvents their way of playing jazz by using effect pedals and unconventional techniques. The saxophone crafts chords, basslines, and atmospheric textures, pushing beyond traditional roles. The guitar blends extended harmonies with unusual textures, delivering virtuosic and evocative moments. The drums fuses jazz with intricate Brazilian rhythms, adding dynamic energy and depth to their bold, adventurous sound.

a second photo of the three members of the Perceptions Trio by Victor Belinda, facing him, in front of the rusty hull of a boat.

Photo @ Victor Belinda

BIO

This is us. We all compose in Perceptions Trio. This is a collaborative band. We're all leaders of different bands. If you'd like to discover our different universes, you can navigate through our respective websites !

Guitar + FX

Silvan Joray

https://www.silvanjoray.com/

Silvan Joray is a Swiss jazz guitarist and composer currently based in New York City. He has gained recognition in the jazz community, having won special prizes at the UNISA International Strings Competition in South Africa 2022 and the Smietana Jazz Guitar Competition 2019 in Poland. He has performed at prestigious jazz festivals including the Krakow Summer Jazz Festival, Offbeat Jazzfestival Basel, and International Jazz Festival Bern, and has toured in Germany, Norway, Poland, Spain, and Israel.

Joray's upcoming album, "Updraft", showcases his forward-thinking original style characterized by a transparent tone, crispy articulation, creative rhythmic ideas and extended techniques like quarter tones and „tapping“ which are not traditionally associated with jazz guitar playing.

Tenor saxophone + FX

Charley Rose

https://www.charleyrosetrio.com/

Charley Rose claims to be at the crossroads of rock, free, and jazz music. He is also a great admirer of 20th-century music (Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ligeti...). These factors drive him to create the Larchey Zore Quartet, an experimental group intimately working with extreme music forms, which will release their album in 2017, following their win at the Dutch event Keep an Eye the Record. In 2016, he establishes his Charley Rose Trio alongside Enzo Carniel and Ariel Tessier. A debut album is released on the Déluge label in 2018, and a second one will come out on the Menace label in June 2023. They are winners of Jazz Migration #7 and have been touring various festivals in France and Europe in 2022.

Drums

Paulo Almeida

https://www.pauloalmeidadrummer.com/

Paulo Almeida is a Brazilian drummer, percussionist, composer and an important reference in the instrumental music scene in his country. He is going to his 5th authorial album and as a drummer he has a unique way of expressing himself through melodic creation, seeking different timbres with a strong Afro-Brazilian rhythmic influence.

As an instrumentalist, he has performed at important festivals and jazz clubs around the world and he has also performed with renowned artists such as Hermeto Pascoal, Dhafer Youssef, Guillermo Klein, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Jorge Rossy, Anat Cohen, Ralph Alessi, Filó Machado and Leny Andrade