Music under the name Trills will continue to be released, but I've decided to create a new moniker to release my more aggressive beat-driven material under the name Cyclea.
Trills will focus more on abstract colorful synth paintings and impressionistic pieces from this point on.
Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cyclea/264159260288819
Preview of the track 'Dreamlet': http://soundcloud.com/cyclea/cyclea-dreamlet
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Houston Press Article
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/09/100_creatives_jonathan_jindra.php
Sunday, June 12, 2011
New Collaborations
An improvised demo that will be part of my set with Chris Becker on June 19th @ Khon's Bar entitled "I Am The Door":
http://soundcloud.com/trills/jonathan-jindra-chris-becker-i
Also another song that is part of my collaboration with Greek electronic musician Konstantinos Kouzas entitled "Hope it Lasts":
http://soundcloud.com/trills/jonathan-jindra-konstantinos
http://soundcloud.com/trills/jonathan-jindra-chris-becker-i
Also another song that is part of my collaboration with Greek electronic musician Konstantinos Kouzas entitled "Hope it Lasts":
http://soundcloud.com/trills/jonathan-jindra-konstantinos
Monday, May 9, 2011
Trills - Cnidaria music video
Music by Trills from the upcoming release "əˈnɛməni"
www.trillsband.com
Video by Binarium Productions
www.binariumproductions.com
Trills - Blue Metabolic Sunrise free download
http://www.retronym.co.uk/rtn017/
Free download now available.
"Jonathan Jindra returns to Retronym yet again, this time under his well-established Trills pseudonym. Blue Metabolic Sunrise displays shimmering beauty from start to finish. The first few tracks are trademark Trills, patient melodies crafted around deep kicks and echoing snares with a wall of beauteous twinkles and dischords with percussion that flickers between downtempo and chunky 808's.
Everything gradually melts into spiraling arpeggios and analogue machinery is forced to squeeze out it's most stunning of sounds - conjuring up the kind of imagery that would fit perfectly as an alternative soundtrack to something like Tarkovsky's Stalker. The closing track Flect is the ultimate swan song, a ten-minute long epic which condenses the massive array of shades and styles that Jindra has in his audio locker.
Blue Metabolic Sunrise is also available as an amazingly put-together digipak direct from Jonathan himself. We at Retronym believe this is one of the most stunning packages we've seen in a very long time with artwork by the super-talented Joe Bastardo, who deserves extra special credit for this and previous works for Retronym releases. You can check out his portfolio at Future Forest Design.
Please help support the artist if you like this release and buy direct from Jonathan Jindra himself. Click the 'Buy Now' button or purchase through the official Trills Website. Each purchase comes with a free CD-R of improvised Blue Metabolic Sunrise outtakes entitled Uncountable Snowflakes. Shipped from the United States.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Shutter Memory Music Video
Trills - Shutter Memory
Taken from the 2011 release "Blue Metabolic Sunrise"
CD purchase: http://trillsband.com/bluemetabolicsunrise.html
Released by Retronym Records
Music & Video by Jonathan Jindra
Model in water & ink: Y. E. Torres (ms.YET) http://artist.to/yetorres/
Florescent hands: Julia Blake
Girl in grass: Eva Kaminski
'Kildare' on Section 27 Compilation
A new Trills track entitled "Kildare" is available on the new Section 27 netlabel compilation Sectioned v2.0.
Free Download Here
[QUADRANT ONE]
1.01 – Dr Device – No3
1.02 – Trills – Kildare
1.03 – Enabl.ed – Ghetto Snacks
1.04 – RNDM5 – Cloud Fractions
1.05 – Illocanblo – Blood Brothers
1.06 – Swarm Intelligence – Pygmi
1.07 – J.CNNR – Noosfera
1.08 – Motoko Ishii – I Am Chi
1.09 – Inicolabug – Don’t Throw Your Robot
1.10 – Sun Inside – Portrait Candice Morning
1.11 – The Oxy_Gens – A Grudge
1.12 – Pearls For Swines – God Save The Glitch
1.13 – Premodea – 21be
1.14 – Tiruset – Fractal Question
1.15 – Silent Strangers – Lexeme
1.16 – Nonima & theAudiologist – Frenetic
[QUADRANT TWO]
2.01 – Ventolyn & Becotyde – Rasberry Eyes
2.02 – Dissolved – Thermochromism in the Loki Stone
2.03 – Deltason – Back To Earth
2.04 – Mrs Jynx – Dtracked
2.05 – Johnny Jitters – Floaty Feelings
2.06 – LIBRARIES – 1988
2.07 – Doc Deem – Close
2.08 – Swin Deorin – Infinite Triumph
2.09 – Missqulater – Katlord
2.10 – PinkLogik – Forever In Sound
2.11 – VovaOver – Bottom
2.12 – Herre Jorna – Another Dimension
2.13 – Elliot M Bain – Elephant (Sun Drum)
2.14 – Dunaewsky69 – Drob Bilka
[QUADRANT THREE]
3.01 – Dubh Thrian – Nia v2
3.02 – Odaibe – Stars Above Us (+KZ)
3.03 – Syndrom – Kif Kif
3.04 – Adviruz – No Regrets
3.05 – Nina Kardec – Blue
3.06 – Sina. – We Came Undone
3.07 – Argotec – Chaotic Abuse Coupe
3.08 – Deccan Traps – Yearling
3.09 – The Icarus Wings – Fantasmi Della Mattina
3.10 – Hellmood B. Ware – Spark of Light
3.11 – Neomai Gundislav – Scott2
3.12 – Meta Program – 101010_1717
3.13 – Floating Spirits – Missing In Action
3.14 – Jimmy Penguin – Beans
3.15 – Masochistic Values – This Too Shall Pass
3.16 – Struct Seven – Outstare Ver3
3.17 – Altered:Carbon – Livin’ and Learning [ft. Akila Da Hun]
[QUADRANT FOUR]
4.01 – Pablo Ribot – Me and the Hypochondriac Witness
4.02 – Aramburu – Nothing
4.03 – Christoph Schindling – Preisboxer
4.04 – Polar Aviation – Psycho-Kinetic Dub
4.05 – XZICD – Almah
4.06 – Min-Y-Llan – Orange Clouds-Fire Rain
4.07 – Z-Arc – Reactivation
4.08 – Dentist – Fortress
4.09 – Rumbus Merrylegs – Sorry If I Hurt You
4.10 – NCThompson – This Can Kill
4.11 – Pollux – Ghosts I – I (Remix)
4.12 – :dehumanizer: – April’s Gone
4.13 – Data Unit – O Concordia
4.14 – 2Kutup – We Shall Cuddle Up And Sleep
4.15 – VEKTROID – He Wanted To Read The Mind of God
Full credits and artist links are available as a text file in this download.
http://section27netlabel.blogspot.com
http://www.archive.org/details/s27-069VariousArtists-SectionedV2.0
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Trills - Blue Metabolic Sunrise -- Out Now
Trills - Blue Metabolic Sunrise
$10 CD-R Digipak & Free Digital Download (coming soon)
Retronym Records
Artwork by Joseph Bastardo
1. Euphotic Zone
2. Joguko
3. Insular Movements
4. Erogenous
5. Blue Metabolic Sunrise
6. Zero-Gemini
7. 22 Deg Halo
8. Shutter Memory
9. Flect
The digipak is available to purchase now for $10. The free digital download will be available in a few weeks. With each purchase of the digipak will come a CD-R of improvised outtakes from the Blue Metabolic Sunrise sessions entitled 'Uncountable Snowflakes'.
Monday, February 21, 2011
KTRU
http://ktru.org/newsite/top-35-for-2-20-2011
'Modular Puzzle' has been getting lots of radio play from the Houston-area FM radio station 91.7 KTRU. It is in their top 20 playlist this week.
'Modular Puzzle' has been getting lots of radio play from the Houston-area FM radio station 91.7 KTRU. It is in their top 20 playlist this week.
'Trills - Modular Puzzle' Sitting Now Review
http://sittingnow.co.uk/2011/02/19/trills-%E2%80%93-modular-puzzle-iabsentee/
"I was introduced to Trills on the recent Section 27 release “PH 14”, a split between him and some other guy who’s name escapes me. I was, therefore, quite happy to receive “Modular Puzzle” to further my research.
If you took Boards of Canada, Autechre and Aphex Twin and blended them in a large test tube, shipped them to America and injected them into a host stem cell and raised that stem cell as an electronic musician, you may end up with something like Trills. His influences are obvious (to me at least) but not in a crude way. This is a man who has been listening to the right stuff, while far enough away from the scene to fashion his own take on things. It is also an album of contrasts, one moment he is all futuristic (“Paragon” which is kind of like EP5 era Autechre but with straighter beats) and then on the next track (“Erawitt”) he’s on a kind of 80’s sci-fi movie thing…like an alternative soundtrack to “Running Man”. Then he’s all experimental and industrial on “Zurich”, before dropping in a retro sample and going all glitchy acid hip-hop on “Binarium”). Some people might struggle to move between styles like this but I can safely say that the ball is never dropped on this album. He maintains his own identity, while throwing his influences at a blank canvas and carefully squishing them around, to form something new and old, experimental but enjoyable and challenging but friendly.
http://www.i-absentee.com/IA029.html"
"I was introduced to Trills on the recent Section 27 release “PH 14”, a split between him and some other guy who’s name escapes me. I was, therefore, quite happy to receive “Modular Puzzle” to further my research.
If you took Boards of Canada, Autechre and Aphex Twin and blended them in a large test tube, shipped them to America and injected them into a host stem cell and raised that stem cell as an electronic musician, you may end up with something like Trills. His influences are obvious (to me at least) but not in a crude way. This is a man who has been listening to the right stuff, while far enough away from the scene to fashion his own take on things. It is also an album of contrasts, one moment he is all futuristic (“Paragon” which is kind of like EP5 era Autechre but with straighter beats) and then on the next track (“Erawitt”) he’s on a kind of 80’s sci-fi movie thing…like an alternative soundtrack to “Running Man”. Then he’s all experimental and industrial on “Zurich”, before dropping in a retro sample and going all glitchy acid hip-hop on “Binarium”). Some people might struggle to move between styles like this but I can safely say that the ball is never dropped on this album. He maintains his own identity, while throwing his influences at a blank canvas and carefully squishing them around, to form something new and old, experimental but enjoyable and challenging but friendly.
http://www.i-absentee.com/IA029.html"
Sunday, February 6, 2011
"Blue Metabolic Sunrise" announcement
Coming in February is the next Trills release entitled "Blue Metabolic Sunrise" which will be available as a free download from my friends over at Retronym. The artwork will be completed Joseph Bastardo from Future Forest Design
Here is a preview of the opening track entitled Euphotic Zone:
Trills - Euphotic Zone by trills
Here is a preview of the opening track entitled Euphotic Zone:
Trills - Euphotic Zone by trills
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Sandy Ewen & Jonathan Jindra live recording
Jonathan Jindra & Sandy Ewen (live improv 12-12-2010) by trills
Jonathan Jindra (Trills) & Sandy Ewen performing a live improvised set at the Binarium Sound Series in Houston, TX 12-12-2010
Jonathan Jindra (Trills) & Sandy Ewen performing a live improvised set at the Binarium Sound Series in Houston, TX 12-12-2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
2 B-Sides Available
Bermuda Triangle' @ I, Absentee is an outlet for them to present free extra tracks of artists connected with the label. Due to the nature of the concept, most files are unmastered and the older audio may contain surface noise in the original recordings. There are two Trills tracks added to the collective: "Blood ...Orange" is a Modular Puzzle demo outtake, and "Joguko" is a newer track that I quite like, but isn't fitting the flow of the rest of my more recent output.
"Joguko" and "Blood Orange"
AVAILABLE HERE
"Joguko" and "Blood Orange"
AVAILABLE HERE
Monday, October 11, 2010
Peach Genesis
My good friend Dissolved Paul runs an excellent music blog called
"Quagmire of the Antler People" to share mixtapes and this week I
contributed a mix of some tunes that inspire me that I've called "Peach
Genesis".
http://quagmireoftheantlerpeople.blogspot.com/2010/10/peachy-keen.html
As we enter the month of Samhain, we have an exciting hectic, maybe spooky but definitely fish fueled generous time ahead of us here at the Quagmire. Hopefully our eccentric listeners will have filled up on the previous mixes because here comes another, and we are happy to say this time it comes from an eager outsider, possibly an astral traveler, who has arrived from a distant star holding a small flashing device filled with audio greatness. Or it could simply be excellent electronic experimental musician type, Trills/Jonathan Jindra disguised as such a being.
Regardless of what form the traveler appears as, the sonic quavers he brings are tasty and are mysteriously headed under the name "Peach Genesis" which we think is really cool. Is this the name of another planet capable of sustaining life not as we know it or is it the name of an edible book, or perhaps an exotic mantra. We have a pet cat called Genesis actually who has back legs like a rabbit and sometimes when he meows, no sound comes out. Sound most certainly does come out here though so enjoy and listen to the excellent Failure, who don't live up to their name with some grinding melodies and emotional tones that aren't Emo, the lush Boreal Network who bring some warm synths to watch silent 80's science programs to and the slow 'Low' try and run away with your eternal organs, mainly your heart only using the singers sparkling voice, who appears to have originated from a planet where the term "tone deaf" doesn't exist. Pan Sonic have been living in your membranes for their entire existence and are the sound of electronic rain falling inside a cheese grater which is slowly rubbing up against your internal band pass filter while you visit the Arctic.
Peach Genesis.
1.Pan Sonic: Current 1
2.Failure: Heliotropic
3.Steve Brodsky: Halo 4A Hula-Hoop
4.Low: Laser Beam
5.Nico: Afraid
6.Boreal Network: Adrive
7.Oceansize: Massive Bereavement
8.Machinefabriek: Hieperdepiep
9.Greymachine: Wolf at the door
10.Track53: Dimensia
Available Here
"Quagmire of the Antler People" to share mixtapes and this week I
contributed a mix of some tunes that inspire me that I've called "Peach
Genesis".
http://quagmireoftheantlerpeople.blogspot.com/2010/10/peachy-keen.html
As we enter the month of Samhain, we have an exciting hectic, maybe spooky but definitely fish fueled generous time ahead of us here at the Quagmire. Hopefully our eccentric listeners will have filled up on the previous mixes because here comes another, and we are happy to say this time it comes from an eager outsider, possibly an astral traveler, who has arrived from a distant star holding a small flashing device filled with audio greatness. Or it could simply be excellent electronic experimental musician type, Trills/Jonathan Jindra disguised as such a being.
Regardless of what form the traveler appears as, the sonic quavers he brings are tasty and are mysteriously headed under the name "Peach Genesis" which we think is really cool. Is this the name of another planet capable of sustaining life not as we know it or is it the name of an edible book, or perhaps an exotic mantra. We have a pet cat called Genesis actually who has back legs like a rabbit and sometimes when he meows, no sound comes out. Sound most certainly does come out here though so enjoy and listen to the excellent Failure, who don't live up to their name with some grinding melodies and emotional tones that aren't Emo, the lush Boreal Network who bring some warm synths to watch silent 80's science programs to and the slow 'Low' try and run away with your eternal organs, mainly your heart only using the singers sparkling voice, who appears to have originated from a planet where the term "tone deaf" doesn't exist. Pan Sonic have been living in your membranes for their entire existence and are the sound of electronic rain falling inside a cheese grater which is slowly rubbing up against your internal band pass filter while you visit the Arctic.
Peach Genesis.
1.Pan Sonic: Current 1
2.Failure: Heliotropic
3.Steve Brodsky: Halo 4A Hula-Hoop
4.Low: Laser Beam
5.Nico: Afraid
6.Boreal Network: Adrive
7.Oceansize: Massive Bereavement
8.Machinefabriek: Hieperdepiep
9.Greymachine: Wolf at the door
10.Track53: Dimensia
Available Here
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Sequenza 21 Article
http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/08/trills-this-sunday-august-29th-in-houston-tx/
"Jonathan Jindra’s weekly experimental music concerts Binarium Sound Series continues 8pm Sunday nights here in Houston, Texas at The Mekong Underground, 2808 Milan Street (right next to Kohn’s bar). This is a wonderful series where you will hear intimate performances by local and visiting artists performing composed, improvised, electronic, and acoustic experimental music.
This Sunday’s August 29th Binarium program features Jonathan’s electronica project Trills. Trills is manifested in Jonathan’s live performances as well as several online digital releases – many being collaborations with other similarly minded artists. His recent full length split with Glasgow artist Dissolved entitled PH:14 has been his most successful release to date with over 43,000 downloads in its first month of release. Trills’ repertoire to my ears has roots its in groundbreaking synthesizer and electronic artists and ensembles like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis (especially his soundtrack to Bladerunner) and Popol Vuh. Jonathan name checked for me a handful of more contemporary artists as influences, including Boards of Canada, Pan Sonic, and Autechre.
I’ve listened to a bunch of Jonathan’s music and still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of his talents and repertoire. And I don’t want to pigeonhole Trills with only a cursory familiarity of countless 21st century electronic artists that flood the web trading digital files of original groundbreaking music the way I traded cassette tapes of the same back in the day. The best thing to do is go to the Trills website and enjoy the music and video samples, and then forget what you’ve heard when you check out this Sunday’s show. Jonathan’s set will be accompanied by custom video projection. About This Product joins Trills on this bill."
"Jonathan Jindra’s weekly experimental music concerts Binarium Sound Series continues 8pm Sunday nights here in Houston, Texas at The Mekong Underground, 2808 Milan Street (right next to Kohn’s bar). This is a wonderful series where you will hear intimate performances by local and visiting artists performing composed, improvised, electronic, and acoustic experimental music.
This Sunday’s August 29th Binarium program features Jonathan’s electronica project Trills. Trills is manifested in Jonathan’s live performances as well as several online digital releases – many being collaborations with other similarly minded artists. His recent full length split with Glasgow artist Dissolved entitled PH:14 has been his most successful release to date with over 43,000 downloads in its first month of release. Trills’ repertoire to my ears has roots its in groundbreaking synthesizer and electronic artists and ensembles like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis (especially his soundtrack to Bladerunner) and Popol Vuh. Jonathan name checked for me a handful of more contemporary artists as influences, including Boards of Canada, Pan Sonic, and Autechre.
I’ve listened to a bunch of Jonathan’s music and still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of his talents and repertoire. And I don’t want to pigeonhole Trills with only a cursory familiarity of countless 21st century electronic artists that flood the web trading digital files of original groundbreaking music the way I traded cassette tapes of the same back in the day. The best thing to do is go to the Trills website and enjoy the music and video samples, and then forget what you’ve heard when you check out this Sunday’s show. Jonathan’s set will be accompanied by custom video projection. About This Product joins Trills on this bill."
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
8-10-2010 Live Recording
320kb mp3s of last night's sets:
1 - Trills 30:37
2 - Mark.Nine 30:54
3 - Five Step Path 22:20
4 - Daed 45:22
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ce3u1
1 - Trills 30:37
2 - Mark.Nine 30:54
3 - Five Step Path 22:20
4 - Daed 45:22
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ce3u1
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Binarium Sound Series
http://www.binariumsoundseries.com/
I am now hosting a weekly experimental series entitled "Binarium Sound Series" at The Mekong Underground outside of Khon's Bar in Houston, TX at 2808 Milam. I'm taking over the concert series previously named Resonant Interval Sound Series who was run by Lance Higdon who created quite a name for himself in the Houston noise music community, partly by DJing the Genetic Memory show at 91.7 KTRU, but more effectively by being a great communicator of the abstract and he served as a hub for a scattered, yet extensive area of Texas music. He is moving to Atlanta to teach Latin at a Catholic University at the end of the month so he is passing the show off to me, which I have renamed "Binarium Sound Series" which shares part of it's name with a track off the Trills release 'Modular Puzzle'.
I am now hosting a weekly experimental series entitled "Binarium Sound Series" at The Mekong Underground outside of Khon's Bar in Houston, TX at 2808 Milam. I'm taking over the concert series previously named Resonant Interval Sound Series who was run by Lance Higdon who created quite a name for himself in the Houston noise music community, partly by DJing the Genetic Memory show at 91.7 KTRU, but more effectively by being a great communicator of the abstract and he served as a hub for a scattered, yet extensive area of Texas music. He is moving to Atlanta to teach Latin at a Catholic University at the end of the month so he is passing the show off to me, which I have renamed "Binarium Sound Series" which shares part of it's name with a track off the Trills release 'Modular Puzzle'.
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