Trilateral has pursued a modal/polyrhythmic direction, giving a sparse yet elegant treatment to standards and some original material. In July last year, I was contacted by a Spanish TV company looking for Jose Gomez. Would we be willing to take part in a programme about Spanish musicians living in London? Did stardom beckon? We hire a room at the Premises in Hackney Road. We play Fall. We play On Green Dolphin Street. We have to be playing as the camera man walks in, almost as if he'd stumbled upon us. Television, they say, creates its own reality. It certainly does: the atmosphere, the attitude, the spontaneity are all calculated. They also don't tell you how close the lens gets to your face as you're trying to play. Every pock-mark, every pimple is going to be spread across the screen like a relief map...

During 2011, Tobias Rupp the guitarist entered the Fawmers competition, which requires entrants to produce a composition for every day of February. Tobias pulled off this feat, recording some beautiful tunes in solo guitar format. Our association with Jose Gomez was nearly over - he has now returned to Valencia - so we invited the Sicilian bass player Emmanuele Vitale to help us work the pieces up for trio. All went well until Emmanule's other band got a management deal... Further development awaits the arrival of another bass player. Until then, those interested in Tobias's music can find him on the Reindeerrecords channel on Youtube, and his page on Myspace.