Three planets - three musical worlds - three musical personalities from wildly different backgrounds meet each other and form themselves into a new, unconventional sound cosmos characterised by sensitive interaction with, and respect for the otherness of their opposites. John Russell's hard finger picking attacks meet the sound like, energy laden violin tones of Mathieu Werchowskis and combines with Ute Völkers chord layering and deformed melodies.
2000 Emmanuelle Pellegrini formed the trio John Russell, Mathieu Werchowski and Ute Völker for the Festival Densitée in Verdun, France. Since then the trio have played together continually and have documented their work on the CD Three planets, released in 2004 by the English label EMANEM.

ANDREW CHOATE
They play like three planets - all attracted to the same energy source, but each instrument revolving and glowing at its own pace.

FRANÇOIS COUTURE
THREE PLANETS is definitely not your usual free improv trio session. Besides the instrumentation, one finds in this album a rare level of vitality and invention. Possibly one of the best records of free improvisation in 2004. Highly recommended.

Mathieu Werchowski
John Russell