Let them eat the rich, the debut album from the Norwegian/Canadian band ternOP, sees Håkon Norby Bjørgo and Mike McCormick draw on the intuitive interplay they have built through years of collaboration in the dynamic guitar trio BRINICLE, as well as a variety of other projects. Throughout this recording, however, the Oslo-based improvisers explore the depth and breadth of their musical interaction in an entirely new setting.

 

The lineup of the band constitutes a trio of sorts – besides Bjørgo's upright bass and McCormick's electronics, the live processing algorithm programmed by the latter possesses a degree of autonomous volition in musical interplay, being able to both independently launch and respond to musical gestures and initiatives, in manners that are eerily human and strikingly un-human.