Trioniq – Deux (2020)
Trioniq is Turner, Rob Harris from Jamiroquai and Iwan Van Hetten, who is the trumpet and keyboard player in a band called the Brooklyn Funk Essentials. As Turner explains of this amped-up side project, “We write the material and invite drummers and vocalists when required, and we record live with everybody in the same room. It’s a writing project just as much as it’s about playing, and it’s all about the music we fell in love with when we were kids – 70s-style funk and soul.” Asked about gear, he reveals a mixture of modern and vintage sources. “I used a Stenback for everything on this album apart from one song, ‘Peanut Cookies’, where I played a ’73 Mustang. That bass is great with a pick – really responsive. There’s another song called ‘Difficult’ with a slap feature in it, but I think all the songs are interesting, bass-wise.”