Qui Omple Un Estadi No És Pas Un Graller

Trèvol present themselves as a young quartet picking on traditional instruments and repertoire, while inserting jazz, pop and folk elements. The question is always how to address the past, how to keep it lively, while tuning tradition into the present with a much-needed soberness. Walking this thin line, honouring tradition on one side and finding a reinvigorating approach to it on the other, is what Catalan group Trèvol are trying to pull off. And what is quite rewarding on this debut is that their songs, based on traditional woodwind instruments like gralla and flabiol, are fairly interesting, but still a bit restrained. They step up a notch whenever they go a tad jazzy (on ‘Molontrull’), a little pop (‘Ni Un Pam de Terra’) or a touch experimental (on ‘Interludi – L’U de Trèvol’), and once they stop tiptoeing around it, they’re bound to make some waves.