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>Pandelis Karayorgis | Noah Campbell | Brittany Karlson

The music of this trio, with its emphasis on phrasing, space and dialog, evokes for me the sensation of watching vapor rise and dissolve. That’s why I named the group and the album Atmos, after the Greek word for vapor. The trio has been active since 2023, especially before Brittany Karlson moved from Boston to NY, but there have been other contexts in which the three of us collaborated in different formations. There are six improvised pieces here, five originals of mine (three written specifically for this recording session), and Brittany contributes a beautiful original composition of her own.

—PK

Between the three of us, there is a bond of language but also an openness to explore beyond it. The music here feels conversational, with our cadences, breath, and pauses, all accounted for.

—Noah Cambell

Atmos
Pandelis Karayorgis Trio | Noah Campbell | Brittany Karlson
Driff Records 2503, 2025
(digital download only)

Noah Campbell, soprano & tenor sax
Pandelis Karayorgis, piano
Brittany Karlson, bass

available on Bandcamp

TRACK LISTING

1 Improvisation 1 7:14
2 Improvisation 2 2:20
3 Improvisation 3 6:32
4 Improvisation 4 2:10
5 Gaze 6:34
6 Improvisation 5 8:41
7 Improvisation 6 3:37
8 Faultlines 3:32
9 Neumes 6:48
10 Origin Story 4:26
11 Here In July 9:43
12 Atmos 4:34

Total time: 65:00

Tracks 5, 9-12 by Pandelis Karayorgis, Stray Line Publishing, ASCAP.
Track 8 by Brittany Karlson, © Brittany Karlson 2024.

Recorded at Wellspring Studio, May 12, 2024.
Recording engineer, Steven Bluestein.
Mixing and editing, Antonio Oliart.
Cover artwork and design, Pandelis Karayorgis

<a href="https://pandeliskarayorgis.bandcamp.com/album/atmos">Atmos by Pandelis Karayorgis, Noah Campbell, Brittany Karlson</a>

Reviews

Atmos documents the debut album of a new intergenerational trio of Karayorgis with Rhode Island-based young tenor and soprano sax player Noah Campbell (who is finishing his doctoral studies in Political Science), and double bass player Brittany Karlson (who recently relocated to New York). Karayorgis, who initiated and led this trio, named it and the album after the Greek word for vapor, as its music, with its emphasis on phrasing, space, and dialogue, evokes the sensation of watching vapor rise and dissolve. The album was recorded at Wellspring Studio in Acton, Massachusetts, in May 2024.

The album features six free improvisations, five compositions written specifically for this trio by Karayorgis, and one by Karlson. But all the pieces suggest an intimate, conversational dynamics, always open and risk-taking. These pieces never settle on familiar courses or conventions as they flirt with modern jazz, free jazz, and contemporary music, or attach themselves to any compositional theme or improvised idea. The album cements the deep affinity this trio has established since its inception in 2023. Its contemplative music, with its concise and precise cadences, feels free and fresh, often even poetic, as in Karlson’s “Faultlines”, or Karayorgis’ “Neumes” and the last, title piece.
Eyal Hareuveni, Percorsi Musicali, September 9, 2025

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