ES TRIO: KWAN/ZERANG/STEYER - The Foreign In Us

"The Foreign In Us by ES Trio brings together Edith Steyer, Mabel Kwan, and Michael Zerang in a tightly focused set of improvised dialogues that privilege texture, space, and micro-interaction over any sense of linear development. Steyer’s alto saxophone and clarinet work moves between wiry fragmentation and plaintive lyric shards, while Kwan’s piano is all clipped resonance, damped attacks, and suspended harmonies that reshape the air around her. Zerang’s percussion anchors and destabilizes simultaneously, offering shifting surfaces of friction rather than steady pulse."