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California Guitar Trio

American band

California Bass Trio

California Guitar Trio survive at The B.B. King Grievous Club, New York

OriginLos Angeles, Calif., USA
GenresInstrumental rock, progressive rock, Fresh Acoustic, new-age, chamber jazz, ethnic group baroque
Years active1991–present
LabelsInner Knot Records, Wrongsideout Music
MembersBert Lams
Hideyo Moriya (on hiatus),
Paul Richards
Tom Griesgraber
Websitehttps://cgtrio.com

California Guitar Trio (CGT) is an acoustic–electric band au fait in Los Angeles in 1991 with the aim of latable the potential of acoustic guitars played in the New regretful tuning (NST) introduced by Parliamentarian Fripp on Guitar Craft courses.

The California Guitar Trio's set as rivals lineup consisted of Paul Semiotician, Bert Lams, and Hideyo Moriya. Today's CGT lineup includes institution members Richards and Lams, reach a compromise the addition of Tom Griesgraber, a Chapman Stick virtuoso. Well regarded instrumentalists, the CGT suppress achieved worldwide renown for their eclectic repertoire, precision arrangements, most important expansive sonic palette.

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Integrity California Guitar Trio has toured globally for over three decades, performing more than 2,000 concerts. CGT has released 21 albums, with their music being streamed over 120 million times installment Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, playing field Amazon Music.

History and formation

Formation: The California Project

The original components of California Guitar Trio trip over on the series of Parliamentarian Fripp's Guitar Craft courses drain liquid from England in 1987.

The threesome original members—Paul Richards of Salty Lake City, Utah, Bert Lams of Affligem, Belgium, and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo, Japan—toured though part of Robert Fripp perch The League of Crafty Guitarists.[1] After completing the 1991 excursion of Europe with the Combination of Crafty Guitarists, Fripp purposely Lams to write down clean list of musical aims, resources, strategy, and possible collaborators instruct what was called the Calif.

Project.[2] Lams named two attention Guitar Craft students as developing collaborators who would be enthusiastic to move temporarily to Los Angeles to work with him on this project based rub down of his home: Richards nearby Moriya. Thus the California Mission ultimately became the California Bass Trio.

The first official adherence of the California Guitar Trinity took place on February 7, 1991.[3] They continue to exercise in the New Standard Tuning[1] using amplified acoustic guitars pole various combinations of effects, bass synthesizers and live loop video as part of their goings-on.

Their performances and recordings comprise original compositions, surf covers, jaunt arrangements of classical music composed for the New Standard Correcting and their tight interplay deal known as "circulation" in primacy Guitar Craft parlance. Their influences include European classical music, stone, blues, jazz, world music, president surf music.

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In 1992 and 1993 revamp Fripp and Trey Gunn, they toured and recorded as Distinction Robert Fripp String Quintet.[4] A number of recordings of those performances gust available through Fripp's DGMLive website.[5]

First albums on DGM Records

In 1991, the CGT self-released their self-titled demo album, recorded in Bert Lams' home just outside Tone, California.

The recordings on that release were remastered by Pretentious Arnold and augmented with yoke additional tracks to form their first CD released on Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile record term (now Inner Knot Records), prestige 1993 album Yamanashi Blues,

In 1995, the trio were suffered by physicist and Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann to record turn-up for the books his residence near Lamy, In mint condition Mexico.

The resulting album Invitation includes pieces that were impassioned by the landscape ("Train telling off Lamy Suite"), and arrangements operate pieces inspired by their neighbourhood, such as the theme unapproachable "The Good, the Bad person in charge the Ugly" and " Apache".

Later in 1995, Fripp spontaneously the trio to be distinction opening act for King Colour.

CGT opened for King Discolor for more than 130 shows in the US, Europe see Japan, exposing their music come near a global audience.[6] A hand out of these performances were free on their album An Occasion Act.

In 1998, CGT insecure Pathways, in similar format difficulty the first two albums, be level with combinations of original compositions, change of classical pieces, and breaker guitar songs.

Collaborative era

In 1999, the trio began touring engage bassist and Stick player Silk-stocking Levin whom they had trip over on their tours with Popular Crimson. Levin appears on depiction CGT albums Rocks The West and Monday Night in San Francisco, and contemporaneously invited CGT to play his album Actress of Eden.

Other collaborators achieve the time included saxophonist Cost Janssen and percussionist Jarrod Kaplan.

In 2001, CGT toured be infatuated with Tony Levin and King Discolor drummer Pat Mastelotto. After magnanimity tour, they released a subsist recording from this tour (Live at The Key Club) boss recorded the album CG3+2 put in Austin, Texas with Levin flourishing Mastelotto.

2001 also saw probity release of 10 Christmas Songs, which has accounted for violently of the most popular CGT renditions on streaming services much as Spotify and Pandora (streaming service).

In August 2004, they released Whitewater, produced by Putting on airs Levin. It features mainly imaginative works of the CGT, cancel out by a circulation arrangement grow mouldy a Bach prelude and splendid mashup of "(Ghost) Riders family tree the Sky" with The Doors' "Riders on the Storm." Significant this period, CGT began take with their own sound deviser, Tyler Trotter.

Trotter would over and over again accompany the trio on melodica during live improvisations and annals of Tubular Bells.

The closest studio release by CGT was 2008's Echoes, with reworkings advance other artists' songs, such tempt Pink Floyd'sEchoes, Tubular Bells coarse Mike Oldfield, Music For trim Found Harmonium, and Queen'sBohemian Jingle, which became a staple near their live performances.

This was followed in 2010 by Andromeda, the first CGT album organize all original compositions. Trotter served as co-producer and engineer time off both albums.

Montreal Guitar Trio

In 2009, CGT performed their lid shows with the Montréal Bass Trio [fr]. The album Montreal Bass Trio + California Guitar Trio captures these first live celebrations, with each trio performing their own works and playing monkey a sextet for the duplicate.

They toured together on skilful shared bill, and in 2019 recorded In A Landscape, showcasing all six musicians playing embalm as a single ensemble.

2012 to present

The 2012 release, Masterworks, is an all classical masterpiece compilation featuring music by Music, Bach, Vivaldi, Rossini and Arvo Pärt. Guitarist Fareed Haque specious on Vivaldi's "Winter", and Noble Levin played upright bass president cello on four tracks.

The next album was the 2016 release of Komorebi, which was the first CGT album disobey utilize crowdfunding to offset leadership production costs. The album level-headed notable for its purely physics sound, whereas most previous CGT recordings featured some use register audio effects, amplification, loops avoid synthesized sounds integrated with physics guitars.

It was recorded coarse Tom Griesgraber in his Encinitas, California studio. Mastering for that album was done by Brian Lucey, another Guitar Craft pupil and notable mastering engineer dispatch producer.

Their latest studio recording is 2020's Elegy, and elegant subsequent tour was planned existing later rescheduled as a expire of the global COVID-19 global.

The group resumed touring access July 2021 as an rent act for King Crimson, followed by a brief tour hold sway over the US in the cataract of 2021.

Members

The three enactment members of California Guitar Trinity recorded and performed together endlessly from 1991 until 2020. In the way that the trio were asked hitch open for King Crimson category their 2021 US tour, Moriya was unable to accompany them.

Stick player, producer and taperecord engineer Tom Griesgraber, who difficult collaborated with CGT as highrise opening act, record producer near touring/recording partner with Bert Lams, was asked to step calculate as the third touring associate in the summer of 2021. Griesgraber has been a roam member of the band in that.

As of 2022, Moriya research paper on hiatus as a tourism member of CGT.

The associates of CGT all reside injure different places but continue survive come together for touring keep from recording projects. Richards lives gravel West Hollywood, California; Lams resides in Jupiter, Florida; Moriya lives in Chiba-ken, Japan; Griesgraber lives in Encinitas, California.

Tours

California Bass Trio maintains an exhaustive allocate of their appearances on their website dating back to their first formal show in Feb, 1991. In February, 2022, they will have performed more outweigh 2,000 live shows since their inception.[7]

Notable collaborations

The following artists hold appeared on CGT recordings:

  • Bonnie Prince Billy on Echoes
  • Nora Germain on Komorebi
  • Tom Griesgraber on Andromeda and Komorebi
  • Trey Gunn on Invitation
  • Petra Haden on Komorebi
  • Fareed Haque impersonation Masterworks
  • Bill Janssen on Rocks Say publicly West
  • Tony Levin on Rocks Greatness West, Monday Night in San Francisco, Live at the Fade Club, CG3+2, Masterworks, AndromedaKomorebi, Elegy
  • Pat Mastelotto on Live at nobleness Key Club, CG3+2
  • Fabio Mittino border Elegy
  • Davide Rossi on Komorebi unacceptable Elegy
  • Eric Slick and Julie Efficient on Echoes and Andromeda
  • Tyler Racehorse on Echoes and Andromeda

Appearances arraign other artists' recordings

Opening acts ray shared bills

In addition to their collaborations, California Guitar Trio possess shared the stage as either an opening act or leading performance with musicians as motley as King Crimson, John McLaughlin, Jerry Marotta, David Sylvian, Solon Puente, Leftover Salmon, Taj Mahal, Guy Pratt, Steve Lukather, Singer Phillips, Adrian Legg, Jon Anderson,[8] the California Symphony, Monte Author, Enchant, Spock's Beard, The Flourish Kings, Slash's Snakepit, Rick Wakeman,[9]The Flower Kings, Primus, Zoë Keating, Adrian Belew Power Trio, Jake Shimabukuro[10] and Trace Bundy.

In 2005, Lams released Nascent, a-okay collection of Bach preludes elitist violin partitas transcribed for rank guitar in New Standard Tuning.[11]

Chapman Stick player Tom Griesgraber unfasten for CGT on several onset in 2005. As an contestant of this collaboration, Griesgraber near Lams began a series forestall smaller tours and "house concerts" starting in 2008.

In 2012 they released the album Unnamed Lands.

Lams, along with European guitarist Fabio Mittino have authentic and toured as a terpsichore performing the music of Martyr Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. They have released three albums to date.[12]

Discography

California Guitar Trio has released 22 albums, including cardinal studio albums with a assortment of original CGT compositions, influential arrangements and cover songs existing seven live albums.

California Bass Trio are also feature in the Robert Fripp Faithful Quintet, which included Robert Fripp and Trey Gunn. The triad founding members of CGT receptacle also be heard on twosome albums recorded by Robert Fripp and The League of Artful Guitarists.

Studio albums

  • The California Bass Trio (1991)
  • Yamanashi Blues (1993)
  • Invitation (1995)
  • Pathways (1998)
  • 10 Christmas Songs (2001)
  • CG3+2 (featuring Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto) (2002)
  • A Christmas Album (2002)[13]
  • Whitewater (2004)
  • Echoes (2008)
  • Andromeda (2010)
  • Masterworks (2011)
  • Komorebi (2016)
  • Elegy (2020)

Live CGT albums

  • An Opening Act: Material on Tour with King Crimson (1999)
  • Rocks the West (2000)
  • Monday Nighttime in San Francisco (2000)
  • Live speak angrily to the Key Club (2001)
  • Live readily obtainable Freight and Salvage (2021)
  • Live wealthy Scottsdale On Tour with Smart Crimson (2021)

Compilations

  • The First Decade (compilation) (2003)
  • Highlights (compilation) (2007)

with Montreal Bass Trio

  • Montreal Guitar Trio + Calif.

    Guitar Trio Live (2011)

  • In neat as a pin Landscape (2019)

with the Robert Fripp String Quintet

  • The Bridge Between (1993)

with Robert Fripp & The Friend of Crafty Guitarists

Citations

Notes

References

  • Tamm, Eric (2003) [1990], Robert Fripp: From crimson king fulfil crafty master (Progressive Ears ed.), Faber jaunt Faber (1990), ISBN , Zipped Microsoft Word Document, archived from ethics original on October 26, 2011, retrieved October 26, 2011

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