Up to the founding of the Trio each of them spent years accumulating creative experiences with other musicians until they finally met as members of the “transartistic” project of the Companie Lubat de Gasconha. As time went on their collaboration seemed the logical conclusion of their friendship and shared desire for artistic exploration and musical experimentation.
Today, The Trio d’en bas has plowed its furrow, metaphor taken from their hard work
cultivating new music as artisans of sound and apprentice artists training for life. D’en bas
“from below” has social connotations in French, to which the group make reference as a
conscious choice to stay connected with a certain reality of the precariousness of life as an
artist.
In response to the aggressiveness of the contemporary media’s rhetoric and to turn publicity
taglines on their heads, they coined a slogan of their own that roughly translates as “high-brow
music for low-brow France” or the utopia of art that is accessible yet complex and demanding.
The master plan was to tempt each of us to reclaim possession of that part of the brain that
we unconsciously sell to the highest bidder.
The Trio d’en bas’s music is built upon the many influences absorbed by its members. Mixing
sound collage, layering, and quirky interpretations of different forms of music, it’s the diversity
of the music and the absence of rules that cement the group’s work and fuels their creativity
as an ensemble.
Over the past five years The Trio d’en bas has navigated between concerts in their original trio
form and hybrid forms born out of collaborations with other artists: music and circus, music
and theater, music and painting, music and dance, music and video...

REFERENCES (Since 2009)
INTERNATIONAL : Festival Jazz.EU à Santiago (CHILI), Festival Jazz y Nuevas Propuestas à Caracas (VENEZUELA), Plataforma Lavarden à Rosario (ARGENTINA), Club Zvatra à Moscou (RUSSIA), Hong Kong Jazz Festival (HONG KONG), Jarasum Jazz Festival à Gapyeong (COREE DU SUD), Kuandu Art Festival à Taipei (TAIWAN), Roma Jazz Festival à Rome (ITALIE), Gaume Jazz Festival à Rossignol (BELGIQUE), Ethno Jazz Festival à Chisinau (MOLDAVIE), Jazz Carnival in Odessa (UKRAINE), Club 28 Divino à Rome (ITALIE) ...

FRANCE : Scène nationale de Sète (34), Festival Jazz in Marciac, Jazz ô Barachois à St Denis de (LA REUNION), Jazz à Junas - Nîmes (30), Grenoble Jazz Festival à Grenoble (38), Festival Jazzèbre à Perpignan (66), Festival Jazz à Junas (30), Festival Jazz à Porquerolles - Théâtre Denis à Hyères (83), Festival Europa Jazz à Le Mans (72), Festival Jazz en Lubéron à Apt (84), Les Rdv de L'Erdre à Nantes (44), Festival Uzeste Musical à Uzeste (33), Rencontres internationales jazz de Nevers à Nevers (58), Le Pannonica à Nantes (44), Le Guingois à Montluçon (03), Atlantique Jazz Festival à Brest (29), Jazzdor Strasbourg Festival à Strasbourg (67), Reims Jazz Festival à Reims (51), Le Mandala - Toulouse(31), Festival Jazz sur la ville - Marseille (13), Dynamo des Banlieues Bleues - Paris (93), France Musique - Radio France (75) ...