Magnetic Dreaming // Triio // Alex Fournier

Alex Fournier’s Triio, releases Magnetic Dreaming on September 29th, 2023. Pre-order the album here. You can pre-save it here on Spotify. The album features a cross section of the vibrant improvised and creative music scene in Toronto, Canada with:

Alex Fournier / / Double Bass & compositions

Tom Fleming / / Guitar & Pedals

Magnetic Dreaming, is a dark but optimistic operatic Jazz suite by modern jazz ensemble, Triio. Established in 2012 by double bassist Alex Fournier, it is a sextet featuring cinematic compositions that focus on the interplay and mutual influence shared between written music and free/collective improvisation.

This album is widly imaginative, running the gamut of expression, but showing remarkable artistic restraint. It fluidly wanders through composed and improvised elements, while seeking to transport the listener into a novel sonic universe.

Magnetic Dreaming offers an experience that is both ephemeral but sure to leave a lasting imprint on the consciousness. Elastic Recordings & Triio invite you to join us on September 29th, in the Main Hall of The Tranzac Club, to celebrate the release of this momentous album. Details for the show can be found here.

Basalt Pillars and the Field Outside the Ferrimagnetic Order (feat. Alex Fournier, Michael Davidson, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Bea Labikova, Tom Fleming & Stefan Hegerat), is the 2nd single from Magnetic Dreaming.

It official releases on all streaming platforms on September 22, 2023. Listen, Save & share here.

This track is a subtle but fierce journey into a sonic landscape lush with texture, and an otherworldy architecture. A wonderfully deranged and witty improvisation soars above the structured chaos, thrilling the senses. Triio is in fine form here, collectively moving together like an oversized synth.

The Dance That Wrought The Faciality Of The Lower Metaphysicians
(feat. Alex Fournier, Michael Davidson, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Bea Labikova, Tom Fleming & Stefan Hegerat) is the 1st single from Magnetic Dreaming.

It officially released on September 15, 2023.

Listen, Save & Share on all streamers here.

This track explores the precipice of Fournier’s compositional exploits, overlooking a steep drop which Triio gracefully and fearlessly teeters and totters on, as if at a playground inside a supernova. It is thrilling as it is stunning at various moments in the narrative.