SAN Trio

SAN (‘three’ in Japanese) was born of the association of three musicians of Japanese origin but from very different generations and musical cultures (pianist Sakoto Fujii, from Tokyo; marimba and vibraphone player Taiko Saito, based in Berlin; and percussionist Yuko Oshima, living in Strasbourg). Their project was to use these differences to create a common discourse, less concerned with resolving latent conflicts than with integrating their dynamics into an ever-threatening harmony. The trio’s compositions play on the strong contrasts between areas of silence, where the slightest gesture takes on a striking relief, and collective surges of power full of tumult and tangled rhythms, developing music that is at once theatrical, choreographic and fascinating.