Deep Triskell

Following Sans fin sans fond (BZH010), an introductory EP released in 2026 on les Disques de la Bretagne, This LP on Éditions Gravats is Maxime Primault’s (High Wolf, BZMC) debut album as Deep Triskell. Sacho Fest, New Trad Festival, Instants Chavirés, Mofo Festival… Deep Triskell came into shape through a series of live performances, each one bringing the project one step closer to its current sound, that Primault defines as “stoner-trad” (as in traditional): a sonic matter that is dense, abrasive, incompressible and whose beauty can only be fully comprehended when being physically exposed to it over a long period of time. 

Deep Triskell’s artistic approach falls within a scene that mesh experimental practices with traditional music and that has been strongly resurging in France in recent years. On the album, it takes the form of dissonant motives, typical of drones in traditional music - sometimes dark and lingering (“Devant le Silence Noir”), sometimes throbbing and techno-leaning (“Il recrache le diable”) - that Primault integrates into a broader idiosyncratic musical language, made of psychedelic figures developed via his High Wolf project and digital distortions - characteristic of his recent work as BZMC.

More than mere sonic motives, Deep Triskell borrows from Brittany’s traditional music scenes something fundamental: the sense of a space and time that is shared, and in which bodies - driven by an archaic energy conveyed by dance - form an insubordinate group; something deeply rooted in Breton culture, weaving its way through Fest-noz and Britany’s high-spirited free parties.

Deep Triskell provokes in our body a resonance that recalls the persistence of the breaking of the sound barrier, or that of kan ha diskan, that age-old Breton vocal tradition in which point and counterpoint ceaselessly intertwine and unfold themselves without pause or down-time. He spreads a continuous tension in a circular circuit that inevitably excludes any possibility of pause, a physical phenomenon made particularly explicit by the anthemic “Le sonneur devenu pierre”. Like Jeff Mills in its day with his Waveform Transmission Vol.1, Deep Triskell sparks an electronic outburst that is truly staggering. Despite its seeming darkness, Deep Triskell - LP nonethelessly drags us towards light, relentlessly.