Sean Noonan -drums/compositions/
Johnny Richards – keyboards
Michael Bardon – bass
Rhythmic storyteller Sean Noonan composes and conducts with a pair of drum sticks original multi-stylistic music. His “wandering folk” theory captures the elusiveness of ever-evolving world music traditions and reorients them through his own distinctive lens, fusing his discoveries with influences from harmolodic jazz, bleeding-edge rock, and avant-garde classical music. Noonan’s wide-spectrum music combines the loquacity of an Irish bard, the narrative rhythms of Samuel Beckett, and the raw physicality of a street-smart boxer.
An Irish-American drummer with a theatrical bent and a passion for African rhythms, Noonan’s nomadic muse has led Noonan in a wealth of unexpected directions, resulting in an explosion of unclassifiable releases and projects spanning more than 20 albums and hundreds of performances in over 15 countries, in premiere venues and international festivals as EFG London Jazz, Sant’anna Arresi Jazz Festival, American Film Festival, Timezone Festival, Haldern Pop Festival, and Jazz Liege to name a few.
The Trio was formed after the 2016 album release “Memorable Sticks”. Noonan adopts a magical scepter to dig the depths of the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland revealing “Hidden Treasures”, as if Henry Cowell, Cecil Taylor, Frank Zappa and the Grateful Dead were out on a night of romance in quest of a good street fight. The treasures that he finds along the way are filtered through his distinctive vision to become the unpredictable and far-ranging sounds of Noonan’s wide-spectrum music.