For You Lot 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 -- in addition to and then did a 180 into the jazz/fusion thicket. Gunn graduated from keyboards to guitar, in addition to then 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 in addition to other the world music styles alongside jazz/fusion rhythms in addition to an against-the-grain attitude. With Gunn playing the ten-string in addition to Joe Mendelson the eight-string Warr guitar, summation 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, alongside a twosome 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 shell for solos past times Geballe in addition to Gunn. Warr guitars are capable of everything from bass-like bottom in addition to distorted ability chords to the clean, Crimson-like intertwining lines on "Sirrah." Another slice from The Third Star, "Arrakis," features psychedelia past times Geballe in addition to Mendelson over Gunn's monolithian lower-register notes in addition to Muller's clever, percussive arsenal. The tribal, snake-charming closer, "Rune Song: The Origin of Water," beats the odds for whatever genre past times featuring no solos over 8 minutes. Clearly, these are virtuoso players who could play traditional jazz exactly pick out to play to a greater extent than exterior in addition to emphasize the whole over the singular parts. High artistic marks in addition to Gunn's side chore alongside Crimson let the Trey Gunn band plenty currency -- against all pop music odds -- for the occasional studio recording session in addition to these alive encounters.

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

Trey Gunn is yet best known every bit a fellow member of the close recent incarnation of King Crimson, playing his Warr Touch guitar, a variation on the Chapman Stick. Gunn's function alongside Crimson carries over into his ain ensemble, except instead of asset downwardly the bass player's role, he stretches out into around scintillating atomic number 82 function that owes a debt to his mentor, Robert Fripp, peculiarly the long, undulating sustained melodies. Teaming upwards alongside around other Warr guitarist, Joe Mendelson, guitarist Tony Geballe, in addition to 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 in addition to sky-scraping architecture to the alive performances captured here. Jettisoning the vocals that oftentimes brand King Crimson audio similar ii unlike bands--one a quirky pop grouping alongside Adrian Belew singing, around other storming the gates of instrumental heaven--Gunn's band sets their sites on the instrumental heaven, alongside roles shifting inwards the band every bit guitars move percussion instruments in addition to drums move melodic. But topping it all are elaborate guitar in addition to Warr guitar leads veering from African agency cross-picking to feedback frenzies.

These alive recordings were taken from tours inwards September 2000 in addition to 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