Learn Trey Gunn - 2001 Alive Encounter

Trey Gunn played inwards plenty stone bands inwards his formative '80s years to larn how to move a star inwards pop music -- as well as thus did a 180 into the jazz/fusion thicket. Gunn graduated from keyboards to guitar, thus bass to Chapman stick earlier discovering the customized Warr guitar (which he calls a "touch guitar" because of its tapping response). With progressive stone juggernaut King Crimson since 1994, Gunn's Live Encounter CD goes fifty-fifty farther exterior of measure stone than Crimson's excursions -- blending Eastern as well as other footing music styles amongst jazz/fusion rhythms as well as an against-the-grain attitude. With Gunn playing the ten-string as well as Joe Mendelson the eight-string Warr guitar, addition Tony Geballe adding electrical guitar unorthodoxy on the opening "Dziban," it's deliciously hard to discern who's playing what over drummer Bob Muller's 7/4-timed groove. Most of the early on cloth is from Gunn's outstanding 1996 studio CD, The Third Star, amongst a duad exceptions. "The Glove," from 2000's even-better The Joy of Molybdenum, literally showcases Muller's leftism -- the drummer plays mounted tabla drums to the side of his drum kit inwards the intro earlier providing a bottom-heavy beat out for solos yesteryear Geballe as well as Gunn. Warr guitars are capable of everything from bass-like bottom as well as distorted ability chords to the clean, Crimson-like intertwining lines on "Sirrah." Another slice from The Third Star, "Arrakis," features psychedelia yesteryear Geballe as well as Mendelson over Gunn's monolithian lower-register notes as well as Muller's clever, percussive arsenal. The tribal, snake-charming closer, "Rune Song: The Origin of Water," beats the odds for whatever genre yesteryear featuring no solos over 8 minutes. Clearly, these are virtuoso players who could play traditional jazz exactly withdraw to play to a greater extent than exterior as well as emphasize the whole over the singular parts. High artistic marks as well as Gunn's side undertaking amongst Crimson let the Trey Gunn band plenty currency -- against all pop music odds -- for the occasional studio recording session as well as these alive encounters.

King Crimson 'Warr Touch' guitarist Trey Gunn's alive exhibit is the ultimate residual of ability & symmetry - he gracefully intersperses rock, funk, ambient & footing beat out elements amongst the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. Joined yesteryear multi-percussionist Bob Muller, guitarist Tony Geballe & 2nd 'Warr Touch' guitarist Joe Mendelson, Gunn has lastly captured the band inwards its truthful essence, raw & bursting amongst energy. This is an enhanced CD that includes alive Quicktime footage, assembled & mixed during Gunn's early on 2000's tour amongst King Crimson on a double-bill amongst Tool.

Trey Gunn is nevertheless best known every bit a fellow member of the nearly recent incarnation of King Crimson, playing his Warr Touch guitar, a variation on the Chapman Stick. Gunn's run amongst Crimson carries over into his ain ensemble, except instead of belongings downwards the bass player's role, he stretches out into roughly scintillating Pb run that owes a debt to his mentor, Robert Fripp, peculiarly the long, undulating sustained melodies. Teaming upward amongst roughly other Warr guitarist, Joe Mendelson, guitarist Tony Geballe, as well as drummer Bob Muller, Gunn shows that 2000's The Joy of Molybdenum was no studio fluke, every bit he brings the same hell-bent fury as well as sky-scraping architecture to the alive performances captured here. Jettisoning the vocals that oft brand King Crimson audio similar ii dissimilar bands--one a quirky pop grouping amongst Adrian Belew singing, roughly other storming the gates of instrumental heaven--Gunn's band sets their sites on the instrumental heaven, amongst roles shifting inwards the band every bit guitars move percussion instruments as well as drums move melodic. But topping it all are elaborate guitar as well as Warr guitar leads veering from African agency cross-picking to feedback frenzies.

These alive recordings were taken from tours inwards September 2000 as well as Feb 2001.

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Track listing:

1. Dziban 6:06
2. The Glove 5:35
3. Kuma 5:26
4. Hierarchtitiptitoploftical 3:38
5. Sirrah 5:15
6. Arrakis 7:44
7. Tehlikeli Madde 5:14
8. Brief Encounter 4:36
9. Rune Song: The Origin Of Water 7:56

Personnel:

Trey Gunn 10-string Warr Guitar
Joe Mendelson 8-string Warr Guitar, Ashbory Rubber Bass
Tony Geballe Electric Guitar, 12-string Acoustic Guitar
Bob Muller Drums, Hand drums, Percussion