Tone-Cool Scores Garage A Trois

By I Jan. 14, 2003

Tone-Cool Records has added Garage A Trois to the its roster after signing the elusive band to a multialbum deal. Garage A Trois’ custom-made, full-length, debut studio album is slated for a late April 2003 release to coincide with the band’s appearances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

To create the debut album, specially trained audio scientists will attempt to corral in the confines of the studio the spiritual sonic boom witnessed at the rare Garage A Trois live show—a totally analog, all-natural, constantly expanding and revolving bucket of jazz, rock, electronica, tribal percussion, and riotous improvisation.

The power-trio lineup of Charlie Hunter (8-string guitar), Stanton Moore (polyrhythms) and Skerik (saxophonics) was christened Garage A Trois prior to the release of the group’s vinyl-only Mysteryfunk (Fog City) EP. Wanting to intensify the threesome, Garage A Trois added the firepower of Mike Dillon (vibraphone and percussion) and now unites some of the most adventurous souls from the musical cultures of Berkeley, New York City, New Orleans and Seattle.

While acknowledging the continued popularity of such labels as jam band, avant-garde, jazztronica, acid jazz, and ‘all new—with 25% more!’, the band is comfortable simply creating sounds that defy description while uplifting audiences with the improvisational musical voice of the Trois.

Garage A Trois kicked off 2003—‘The Year of the Trois’—early on the morning of January 3 with the first of three sold-out shows in Newport News, Va.