Garage A Trois
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| Garage A Trois | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Genre(s) | Funk Electronica Jazz Trip Hop |
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| Years active | 1998 – Present | |
| Label(s) | Fog City Records Tone-Cool Telarc |
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| Associated acts |
Galactic | |
| Website | garageatrois.com | |
| Members | ||
| Stanton Moore Charlie Hunter Skerik Mike Dillon |
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Garage A Trois is a band founded by drummer Stanton Moore, eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, and saxophonist Skerik.
The band spontaneously formed during the 1998 recording of Stanton Moore's debut All Kooked Out!, a session that also yielded Garage A Trois' debut recording Mysteryfunk. Both albums were produced by Dan Prothero on his independent Fog City Records label. They were also both recorded live with no over dubs. This is remarkable as Mysteryfunk sounds tonally and stylistically similar to heavily edited, sample-based club music. Whereas All Kooked Out! was rehearsed, "straight-toned" and promoted as the initial release, Mysteryfunk was mostly improvised with electronically effected instruments and as Moore has stated had "all the freaky stuff."[1]
As implied by the name, Garage A Trois was initially a trio but after success as a live act they took on vibraphonist and percussionist Mike Dillon. The quartet have performed multiple tours on the national nightclub circuit and played at several festivals. They are known to perform a wide variety of music in any given show including funk, punk-rock with electronic effects, or straight-ahead jazz. [2]
[edit] Discography
- 1999 Mysteryfunk (Fog City Records - limited vinyl)
- 2003 Emphasizer (Tone-Cool/Artemis)
- 2005 Outre Mer (Telarc)
[edit] External links
- Offical site
- Fog City Records presents: Garage A Trois
- Garage A Trois collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
[edit] Notes
- ^ Interview WWOZ, All Kooked Out enhanced-CD, 1998, Fog City
- ^ http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-04-22/feat2.html Gambit cover story, Garage a Trois' Four-play, Cristina Diettinger, April 22, 2003 (the week leading to Jazz Fest)
