A live document from the shores of Lac Léman: two recordings edited as side-long pieces. Current was captured completely acoustic at the Cully Jazz Festival in 2023, Drift during a four-night residency at Live in Vevey in 2025. Together they hold two points in the trio's development, and the thing divr does best on stage: building flow through repetition, interaction and gradually shifting textures.
It's absurd how good Swiss trio divr is at playing this music.Down Beat
You won't find a stronger enchantment than Is This Water.Best Jazz on Bandcamp, Feb 24
Is This Water, with all its mystery, evidences the arrival of a compelling new piano trio on the 21st century jazz scene.AllMusic
Is This Water conclusively proves the piano trio format is far from wrung dry.Mojo, April 24
Ist es also eher Jazz oder Avantgarde? Ist es ein Vogel oder ein Fisch? Ich weiss es nicht, aber es schwimmt und fliegt, gibt uns Melodien und sprengt alles im Handumdrehen in Stücke. Es muss also divr sein.Desibeli · Mika Roth
It makes for a thrilling highlight of a charming jazz album that is both easy to listen to and intricate, yet never, ever garish.The Quietus
Musik als organische Skulptur verstehen, die sich von allen Seiten abwechselnd von innen wie von aussen betrachten, respektive erhören lässt? divr tun genau dies mit ihrer Musik.Jazz'n'More, April 24
Die Dringlichkeit erinnert an die frühen The Bad Plus.Jazz Thing, April 24
Working together as divr, the trio of pianist Philipp Eden, bassist Raphael Walser, and drummer Jonas Ruther forge extended, meditative journeys from lilting beats and mesmerizing melodic tendrils. Most of the group's material is improvised in real time with an almost ritualistic devotion.
The musicians freely pursue their own contemplative gambits, but thanks to deeply intuitive connections formed over time the music glows with a unified sense of purpose and collective rigor. Sometimes lines create exquisite tension, sometimes they lock into deeply organic arcing shapes, disparate rhythmic schemes coalesce and pull apart, whether summoning hypnotic loops, ambient splendor, or chill downtempo electronica. With divr notions of genre evaporate and time becomes elastic, bound by a shared vision.
Photos: Angelika Annen
