The French, Lille-based experimental trio Toc – Fender Rhodes player Jérémie Ternoy (and piano bass player), guitarist Ivann Cruz, and drummer Peter Orins (of KAZE quartet, who runs the local Circum-Disc label) – has developed, in the last fifteen years and twelve albums, its singular dynamics that blend the energy of experimental rock with the unpredictability of free improvised music. Toc’s ever-shifting music, is built from flows, ruptures, and accumulations, where hypnosis and chaos feed off one another.
The 33-minute Quelques idées d’un vert incolore dorment furieusement documents a live performance of Toc with fellow French experimental, free-improvising saxophonist (and organist, electroacoustic sound artist, and visual artist) Jean-Luc Guionnet, with whom Toc occasionally collaborated. Guionnet shares a similar insatiable appetite for challenging sonic adventures.
