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Formed in 2003, Triax are a British electroacoustic trio from Leicester and the most recent incarnation of Alto Stratus, the project of Alan and Steve Freeman. Here the brothers are joined by hurdy-gurdyist Dave Powell, with whom the Freemans also play in Extremities, the industrial krautrock quartet from which Triax are a direct spin-off. Existing alongside Extremities and flagship group Endgame, Triax began when Jim Tetlow temporarily left those ensembles to stay with friends in Australia, with the Freeman brothers and Powell seeking to forge a new and distinct path in his absence. Triax are currently the most active of the Auricle projects, amassing nearly forty-five full-length LPs, three live albums and three videos, with their most recent album, Hidden Planet, released in 2023.

Triax's sound is consistent with the Freemans' prior groups, continuing and refining their tradition of improvised hallucinatory kosmische missives twisted and shaped in the studio by Alan. A blend of krautrock, raga, medieval folk and psychedelic rock elements, Triax's sonic signature lies somewhere between Endgame and Extremities, with the latter's more explicit rhythms replaced by the implicit clang of industrial loops both analog and digital. Alan and Steve remain on guitar, bass and synthesizer duties with Powell supplementing his hurdy-gurdy with flute and violin, with all three members sampling and processing various objects to build their restless aural miasma.

Triax cite their influences as La Monte Young, early Klaus Schulze, Nurse With Wound, Bernard Parmegiani, Zoviet France, François Bayle, Faust, Cranioclast, Amon Düül and even Alessandro Alessandroni. The trio's mind-bending dark ambient will appeal to fans of the Stargazer's Assistant, Suspirium, Aidan Baker, Endoplasmic Flow, the Interstellar Cementmixers and Dead Voices on Air.


- Gordy, February 2024

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Musik Zu Arcana
2003
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Croc en Jambe
2003
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Drie Snijdende Vlakken
2003
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Dangerous Playground
2005
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MoebiusStrip
2006
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Shattered
2006
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Alien Folk
2006
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Embryo
2006
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Torn Asunder
2006
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Supernatural Troubadours
2006
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Cause & Effect
2007
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13
2007
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Unhinged
2007
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Cycle
2007
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Creatures
2008
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Razor
2008
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Vortex
2008
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Threads
2008
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Metamorphic Trickster
2009
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Askew On Treadle
2009
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Desolate
2010
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The Hollow Lands
2010
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Mindswap
2010
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Archive 1
2010
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Necronomicon
2010
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Not on This Earth
2011
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Elements
2011
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Gothic
2012
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Extraterrestrials
2012
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A Foreign Country
2012
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Reality Is Not What It Used to Be
2013
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Quatermass / The Stone Tape
2013
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Short Vacation to the Brain
2013
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Knots
2014
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Impossible
2014
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Collisions
2015
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Impact Crater
2016
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Integrated Circuits
2016
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Petrified
2017
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44
2019
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Cosmic Engineers
2020
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Morphology
2022
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Hidden Planet
2023

TRIAX Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

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Live @ Bambu
2007
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Alto Stratus & Triax: Live EQ & Sol 2008
2012
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Underground
2018

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Cause & Effect
2007
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Fractal
2007
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Live 080308
2008

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Refractions
2014

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