Thermal - Ice In A Hot World

Thermal (John Butcher / Andy Moor / Thomas Lehn) formed in 2001, three musicians from different musical backgrounds, evolving along their personal routes to meet in free improvisations. For twenty years they’ve been taking their subtle and explosive music throughout Europe.

Unsounds released their first album Thermal in 2003. In 2023 the trio of quiet giants comes back with Ice in a Hot World, a new album recorded live in Avignon. The Thermal powerhouse has become highly confident but spontaneity and intuition are at the core of their performance at all times.

“[Their music] takes a trip on alternately smooth and rocky roads in a display of intertwined magic.”

Frank Rubolino - Cadence

“...Thermal is no mere brutal slugfest - far from it - behind the grit and the sweat there’s a cunning sense of complicity and cogent sense of structure.”

Dan Warburton - Paris Transatlantic

“... Thermal meshes horizons and welds disparate trajectories. It’s a highly persuasive point of access to the work of all three musicians...”

Julian Cowley - The Wire