Garage A Trois

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Garage A Trois
Origin New Orleans, Louisiana
Genre(s) Funk
Electronica
Jazz
Trip Hop
Years active 1998 – Present
Label(s) Fog City Records
Tone-Cool
Telarc
Associated acts Galactic
Website garageatrois.com
Members
Stanton Moore
Skerik
Mike Dillon
Marco Benevento
Former members
Charlie Hunter

Garage A Trois (aka GAT) is a quartet including drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik, percussionist Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Benevento.

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[edit] History

Garage A Trois was originally a trio founded by Moore, eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, and Skerik. It 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".[1] 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."[2]

Mysteryfunk 1999 Fog City
Mysteryfunk 1999 Fog City

After success as a live act they took on vibraphonist and percussionist Mike Dillon. The quartet performed multiple tours on the national nightclub circuit and played at several festivals. They were known to perform a wide variety of music in any given show including funk, punk-rock with electronic effects, or straight-forward jazz. [3] Also as a quartet they released two composed studio albums in 2003 and 2005 abandoning the "live with no overdubs" recording ethos.

In 2007 Moore, Skerik and Dillon continued to perform by the Garage A Trois moniker featuring other musicians such as John Medeski and Marco Benevento.[4] The current quartet as of December 2007 including Moore, Skerik, Dillon and Benevento have been billed also as "Garage A Benevento", "Garaj A Benevento" and most recently as simply "Garage A Trois".

On December 20th 2007, the band (with Benevento) played a pre-recording show at DBA in New Orleans. They announced that recording for a new Garage A Trois album was to begin the next morning.

[edit] Discography

  • 1999 Mysteryfunk (Fog City Records - limited vinyl)
  • 2003 Emphasizer (Tone-Cool/Artemis)
  • 2005 Outre Mer (Telarc)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ liner notes
  2. ^ Interview WWOZ, All Kooked Out enhanced-CD, 1998, Fog City
  3. ^ Gambit cover story, Garage a Trois' Four-play Cristina Diettinger, Gambit, April 22, 2003 (the week leading to Jazz Fest) Retrieved March 13, 2008
  4. ^ Conversation with Stanton Moore Doug Collette, www.stateofmindmusic.com, April 2007 Retrieved June 21, 2007