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Vasco Trilla is one of the most active, versatile and creative drummers of the Barcelona scene. He has recorded more than 100 albums ranging from free improvisation, jazz rock to progressive rock metal and ambient music.

He has released albums on labels such as Clean Feed Records, Cuneiform Records, No Bussiness, Not Two, Astral Spirits, Klopotec, Fmr records, Fundacja Sluchaj, Multikulti Pro- ject, Spontaneous Music Tribune, Raw Tonk, Creative Sources, Discordian Records, Gusstaff records, Urpa i Musell, Tripticks Tapes.

He has collaborated with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ra Kalam Bob Moses, Mars Williams, Patrick Shiroishi, Elliot Sharp, Steve Swell, Susana Santos Silva, Jasper Stadhouders among many others. He has toured internationally including Brazil, China, Indonesia, Russia, Norway, Poland Portugal, Germany, and more.

The key attributes of his success seem to consist of three factors: imagination, cross-genre experience in performing music and the constant search for expanding the limits of the instrument. In recent years he has become one of the most solid and in-demand voices of the European free improvised scene.