MOSS/electric unfolds from the image of electric moss: a quiet, resilient presence, spreading across surfaces, weaving unseen connections between what is above and what lies beneath.

It suggests a descent into a domain where life persists beyond notice— dense, ancestral, and quietly abundant. A diffuse vitality moves through it —growing, adapting, interlinking. The electric introduces another layer: currents, impulses, vibrations crossing space and matter, binding distant points into relation.

Within this field, piano, acoustic bass, drums, synthesizers, and modular systems interact as a single ecosystem. Sound circulates, branches, transforms—shifting between abstraction and fleeting recognisable forms. What emerges is a trace: the audible surface of hidden exchanges, where distance and proximity blur, and listening moves between worlds.

Reviews

• “Italian pianist Tonino Miano pushes ahead with a forward-looking adaption of jazz that combines parts of established tradition with its exciting, esoteric outskirts. Retaining Miano’s rhythm section of Riccardo Grosso on double bass and Andrea Melani on drums, the Tonino Miano Trio is poised to issue another set of intrepid works. MOSS/Electric (July 22 2026, Aut Records) comes less than two years after the same trio put forth Luminary(2024) and is a further exploration of ideas presented on that earlier album. […] The incursion of electronic sounds into the tried-and-true piano trio concept. ‘Electro-acoustic’ jazz isn’t really a new idea at all at this point, but the freshness of this music comes from how they approach it. Miano & Co. liberally mixes shapes — or the broad outline of shapes — with free-forms and abstractions, inserting electronic/synthesized sounds into an otherwise acoustic, modern and avant-garde combo. The computer-age sonorities act as an intrusion into the acoustic space and the three’s reactions to it is often where all the interesting and novel activity takes place. […] The Tonino Miano Trio’s MOSS/Electric goes to show that mixing circuited technology into unplugged jazz by itself doesn’t make the music interesting, they rely on old-fashioned attributes of intuitive skills and technical abilities to make it that way.” - V. Aaron, Something else! 07/26 https://somethingelsereviews.com/2026/07/13/tonino-miano-trio-moss-electric-2026/#google_vignette

• “[…]. We get three highly creative musicians making jazz in a free-flowing and modern landscape that I have never previously heard from musicians from the “boot-shaped country.” […] To my ears, this has become an extremely exciting album from three playful Italians who bring the free improvisation of the 1960s into 2026 and, with the traditions firmly in mind, deliver a perfect release for “our time.” Seriously cool stuff from three musicians I didn’t know all that well beforehand!”- Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts  08/22/26 https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/tonino-miano-trio/