A TRIGGERING MYTH are a band from the States. I knew very little about them until a hint concerning some UNIVERS ZERO influences to be found on their CD 'Twice Bitten' caught my attention. Having listened to it, I think it's likely that they have heard 'Heatwave' (the 20-min-track 'Myths (Parts I-VII)' reminds me a bit of 'The Funeral Plain') and Daniel Denis' solo CD's. Yet it's not pure Zeuhl music - in fact, it's sort of a combination between the spirit of Zeuhl and some more romantic influences.
The sound is quite keyboard-dominant, for Rick Eddy and Tim Drumheller, the two group members, (although they employ five guest musicians) are mainly keyboard players. The production is very clean and the keyboard sounds used are more in the beautiful domain (very good keyboard soloing) - certainly not a weird CD. The rhythm section is quite competent, yet their playing is not intense enough for my taste (the bass sounds Jaco Pastorius influenced), while the quiet passages seem to lack some depth. Some of the mood changes seem a bit unmotivated (a purification of the structures would have been useful).
So this CD won't get your haemorrhoids bleeding, but it still has a lot of good melodic and harmonic ideas, especially 'The Perils of Passion' which features some really inspired playing; a bit like Daniel Denis' 'Second Presage'.