Introduction

Triangulators are a loose limbed, multi-personed band, who gather together for the purpose of creating and performing music to provide platform & embellishment for the words of poet and lyricist Felix Rey. .  Felix is a very curious chap and has spent more time than is good for him thinking about the question 'What is going on around here?', having not yet been able to discover a satisfactory answer to this question Felix channels his frustration into the creation of poetic meditations on existence.  Sometimes these get pretty feisty.  The music created by Triangulators is lively and sensitive, drawing on hip hop, sixties counterculture and rock'n'roll for inspiration, and the shows are wilfully entertaining, subversive and provocative.

Bio

Triangulators formed in the basement of the old Bridewell Island Police Station in the summer some years ago.  As we remember it, there was some kind of Invisible Circus there, creating other worlds behind a set of apparently impenetrable blue gates.  We wrote a musical story about our time in the Police Station with the Invisible Circus, and we called it 'Open Up The Gates', it is an at least partially true account of a meeting with an old poet tramp who used to wander the streets of Bristol, offering his poetry to anyone who would take the time to listen.  Perhaps he still walks the Bristol streets? He is certainly alive and well in our strange hip hop fairytale, leading our intially lost protagonist on a weird and wonderful journey, through altered states and realms, towards a different way of being in the world.

The full 'Open Up the Gates'album was released in 2013.  This marked the end of a three year journey for the Triangulators.  Which saw us grace stages at many wonderful and strange events.  Our first gig was at one of the legendary Carny-Ville events, a theatrical otherworld of circus, burlesque and bawdy pantomime. We played in the occupied London Old Street Magistrates Court and Bank of Ideas, accompanying our Ring-Master friend on forays into the unknown, and a front-side seats in the rebellion.  We played in the hold of an old East German Merchant ship following a Brazilian Carnival drum band, and travelled with the Wandering Word yurt to the riotous Bommtown Fair and Shambala Festivals.

In 2014, the Triangulators had a rest. Frontman and lyricist, Felix Rey,  retreated to the hills for a few months, to do some writing and created a set of poems, collectively titled 'Beyond the Gates: Universal Trancsendentalist'.  In July we performed a live set of these poems at the 'Old England' pub in Bristol, with a new Triangulators line up (having previously only numbered 3, through a combination of circumstances, and a liking for parameters, Triangulators are now numerous in number, and equally numinous by nature).  This set was very well receievd by our friends, and a provident meeting with Dug Wolfsohn of Omniphonic Records, led to us recording at the Omniphonic Studios in Wiltshire. The result of this recording is the new 'Beyond the Gates' album, which is going to be released in September this year.  It is a strange, disturbing and funny collection of poems spoken over fat beats and basslines, superbly played and imaginatively delivered.

Reviews
 
"Can we look with a smiling eye at injustice and unfairness in society?  Is it possible to clearly see what’s wrong in it’s myriad of ways, and not be gripped in fear or paralysed into inaction?  Can we see the human comedy in our lives, and a way to a better future where we see the divinity in ourselves, and respect each other as kings and queens?  

Felix Rey’s poetry taps directly into the human condition.  He tells the truth in a way that cuts through the media bullshit and resonates in our hearts.  But when he turns it into music with Triangulators it becomes joyful and exuberant, a celebration of life – and eminently danceable.  How does that happen?

Maybe we have to see ourselves as we really are, to unmask the deceptions and defrock the demigods, and then it’s easy to move on.  Felix’s first album with Triangulators is a shamanic switchback, tribal storytellng of a journey through a dark city’s Concrete Streets, through gain and loss, chance encounter with an old man to loss and redemption – Lift Up, Stardust, Together.

His new material goes to the next level.  The poetry goes deeper and darker, but injustice is mocked by prankster musicians who turn our twisted society into comic theatre.  And it works – I found myself grinning with delight as our demons are debunked.  Again, very danceable, as the evening shifted from serous acoustic, through comic hip-hop and the dancing becomes general." - David Saunders

"The Triangulators are one of my favourite Bristol acts, and in a rich music landscape that's saying something. Their musicianship and togetherness as a band are great, but what makes their shows for me is the bravery, humour and rawness of Felix Rey's lyrics and delivery. His lyrics deal with the big stuff like mental and spiritual isolation, impending apocalypse and the pains and pleasures of striving for truth and oneness in a world that's hatefully afraid of both. That sounds kind of doomy and portentous, but channelled through Felix's amused, bemused and beaming stage presence it just seems like good sense, and cathartically funny." - Naomi Smyth

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