Three Cane Whale is a new multi-instrumental trio, playing acoustic miniatures which draw influence from folk and minimalist music. Alex Vann (mandolin, bowed psaltery, music box) is mandolinist with Spiro (Real World Records). Pete Judge (trumpet, harmonium, lyre, glockenspiel) plays trumpet Get The Blessing (BBC Jazz Award-winners) and for the duo Eyebrow. Paul Bradley (acoustic guitar) is the man behind legendary Bristol band Organelles, and is currently toruing with the Fleur Darkin Dance Company.

Three Cane Whale's eponymous debut album was recorded live (by Spiro's Jon Hunt) in an eleven hour shift in an eighteenth-century Bristol church last summer.

'Perfect' (Cerys Matthews, BBC 6Radio)
'Ever-inventive' (Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3's Late Junction)
'Elegant and atmospheric. An impressively original debut' (Robin Denselow, The Guardian)
'Unutterably lovely ' (Venue)
‘This trio hoe their own row, and do so very successfully, creating singular, contemplative and seductive moods and atmospheres. Wonderful’ (fRoots)
'Bristol's experi-folk trio build works of minimal instrumental beauty to eccentric, uplifting and spellbinding effect' (Time Out)
'A quiet gentle beauty. Mesmerising" (Bristol Evening Post)
'Think of the way light refracts through a raindrop. Intricate, atmospheric and simply beautiful. Four stars" (R2 magazine)
'As full of texture, colour and chaos as a pile of autumn leaves the moment the wind hits. Five stars' (Folk Radio)
'A fantastic record deserving of all kinds of exposure' (The Local)
'An instrumental masterpiece. Spellbinding, inventive and uniquely uplifting' (Rhythm and Booze)
'A pristine purity of vision. Very lovely' (Listomania)
'Minimalism, simplicity and lucidity. Three Cane Whale tick all my boxes for instrumental music' (LiveMusicFM)