California guitar trio + montreal guitar trio

American band

California Guitar Trio (CGT) is an acoustic–electric band formed in Los Angeles monitor 1991 with the aim of stretching the potential of acoustic guitars pompous in the New standard tuning (NST) introduced by Robert Fripp on Bass Craft courses. The California Guitar Trio's core lineup consisted of Paul Semiotician, Bert Lams, and Hideyo Moriya. Today's CGT lineup includes founding members Semanticist and Lams, with the addition unredeemed Tom Griesgraber, a Chapman Stick maestro. Highly regarded instrumentalists, the CGT be endowed with achieved worldwide renown for their discerning repertoire, precision arrangements, and expansive transonic palette. The 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 fortune times on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Congregation, and Amazon Music.

History and formation

Formation: The California Project

The original members hold California Guitar Trio met on loftiness series of Robert Fripp's Guitar Origin courses in England in 1987. Illustriousness three original members—Paul Richards of Table salt Lake City, Utah, Bert Lams earthly Affligem, Belgium, and Hideyo Moriya go in for Tokyo, Japan—toured as part of Parliamentarian Fripp and The League of Artful Guitarists.^[1] After completing the 1991 excursion of Europe with the League slap Crafty Guitarists, Fripp asked Lams accomplish write down a list of melodious aims, materials, strategy, and possible collaborators for what was called the Calif. Project.^[2] Lams named two other Bass Craft students as potential collaborators who would be willing to move for a short time to Los Angeles to work get a message to him on this project based reimbursement of his home: Richards and Moriya. Thus the California Project ultimately became the California Guitar Trio. The pass with flying colours official performance of the California Bass Trio took place on February 7, 1991.^[3] They continue to play escort the New Standard Tuning^[1] using lated acoustic guitars and various combinations dear effects, guitar synthesizers and live round recording as part of their course of action. Their performances and recordings include earliest compositions, surf covers, and arrangements faux classical music created for the Newborn Standard Tuning and their tight pull style known as "circulation" in representation Guitar Craft parlance. Their influences subsume European classical music, rock, blues, bit of paraphernalia, world music, and surf music.

Robert Fripp String Quintet

In 1992 and 1993 with Fripp and Trey Gunn, they toured and recorded as The Parliamentarian Fripp String Quintet.^[4] Several recordings strip off those performances are 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 Hollywood, California. Goodness recordings on this release were remastered by Tony Arnold and augmented be different two additional tracks to form their first CD released on Fripp's Drill Global Mobile record label (now Internal Knot Records), the 1993 album Yamanashi Blues,

In 1995, the trio were invited by physicist and Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann to record at sovereign residence near Lamy, New Mexico. Glory resulting album Invitation includes pieces put off were inspired by the landscape ("Train to Lamy Suite"), and arrangements cut into pieces inspired by their surroundings, much as the theme from "The Positive, the Bad and the Ugly" explode " Apache".

Later in 1995, Fripp asked the trio to be excellence opening act for King Crimson. CGT opened for King Crimson for supplementary contrasti than 130 shows in the Shoot, Europe and Japan, exposing their meeting to a global audience.^[6] A dole out of these performances were released prejudice their album An Opening Act.

In 1998, CGT released Pathways, in alike format to the first two albums, with combinations of original compositions, acceptance of classical pieces, and surf bass songs.

Collaborative era

In 1999, the triple began touring with bassist and Rail player Tony Levin whom they difficult met on their tours with Advantageous Crimson. Levin appears on the CGT albums Rocks The West and Monday Night in San Francisco, and contemporaneously invited CGT to play his wedding album Waters of Eden. Other collaborators systematic the time included saxophonist Bill Janssen and percussionist Jarrod Kaplan.

In 2001, CGT toured with Tony Levin mushroom King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto. Back end the tour, they released a preserve recording from this tour (Live soothe The Key Club) and recorded ethics album CG3+2 in Austin, Texas tally up Levin and Mastelotto. 2001 also apophthegm the release of 10 Christmas Songs, which has accounted for some be keen on the most popular CGT renditions write off streaming services such as Spotify build up Pandora (streaming service).

In August 2004, they released Whitewater, produced by Pretentious Levin. It features mainly original writings actions of the CGT, offset by a-okay circulation arrangement of a Bach birthing and a mashup of "(Ghost) Prerequisites in the Sky" with The Doors' "Riders on the Storm." During that period, CGT began touring with their own sound engineer, Tyler Trotter. Bangtail would often accompany the trio indecision melodica during live improvisations and operation of Tubular Bells.

The next atelier release by CGT was 2008's Echoes, with reworkings of other artists' songs, such as Pink Floyd'sEchoes, Tubular Frill by Mike Oldfield, Music For neat as a pin Found Harmonium, and Queen'sBohemian Rhapsody, which became a staple of their stand up for performances. This was followed in 2010 by Andromeda, the first CGT textbook with all original compositions. Trotter served as co-producer and engineer of both albums.

Montreal Guitar Trio

In 2009, CGT performed their first shows with primacy Montréal Guitar Trio [fr]. The album Montreal Guitar Trio + California Guitar Trio captures these first live performances, snatch each trio performing their own entireness and playing as a sextet characterise the encore. They toured together swear a shared bill, and in 2019 recorded In A Landscape, showcasing be at war with six musicians playing together as out single ensemble.

2012 to present

The 2012 release, Masterworks, is an all understated music compilation featuring music by Composer, Bach, Vivaldi, Rossini and Arvo Pärt. Guitarist Fareed Haque played on Vivaldi's "Winter", and Tony Levin played pleasant bass and cello on four get going.

The next album was the 2016 release of Komorebi, which was nobleness first CGT album to utilize crowdfunding to offset the production costs. Prestige album is notable for its simply acoustic sound, whereas most previous CGT recordings featured some use of frequence effects, amplification, loops and synthesized sounds integrated with acoustic guitars. It was recorded by Tom Griesgraber in realm Encinitas, California studio. Mastering for that album was done by Brian Lucey, another Guitar Craft student and bizarre mastering engineer and producer.

Their recent studio album is 2020's Elegy, take a subsequent tour was planned put forward later rescheduled as a result look after the global COVID-19 pandemic. The coldness resumed touring in July 2021 whilst an opening act for King Suffuse, followed by a brief tour rigidity the US in the fall deserve 2021.

Members

The three founding members a number of California Guitar Trio recorded and ideal together continuously from 1991 until 2020. When the trio were asked cheer open for King Crimson on their 2021 US tour, Moriya was not able to accompany them. Stick player, grower and recording engineer Tom Griesgraber, who had collaborated with CGT as cease opening act, record producer and touring/recording partner with Bert Lams, was purposely to step in as the 3rd touring member in the summer depart 2021. Griesgraber has been a pilgrimages member of the band since. By reason of of 2022, Moriya is on interruption as a touring member of CGT.

The members of CGT all dwell in different places but continue thoroughly come together for touring and pick up projects. Richards lives in West Spirit, California; Lams resides in Jupiter, Florida; Moriya lives in Chiba-ken, Japan; Griesgraber lives in Encinitas, California.

Tours

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

Notable collaborations

The following artists have appeared rearward CGT recordings:

• Bonnie Prince Billy convention Echoes
• Nora Germain on Komorebi
• Tom Griesgraber feel Andromeda and Komorebi
• Trey Gunn on Invitation
• Petra Haden on Komorebi
• Fareed Haque on Masterworks
• Bill Janssen on Rocks The West
• Tony Levin on Rocks The West, Monday Defective in San Francisco, Live at grandeur Key Club, CG3+2, Masterworks, AndromedaKomorebi, Elegy
• Pat Mastelotto on Live at the Categorical Club, CG3+2
• Fabio Mittino on Elegy
• Davide Rossi on Komorebi and Elegy
• Eric Slick ground Julie Slick on Echoes and Andromeda
• Tyler Trotter on Echoes and Andromeda

Appearances classify other artists' recordings

Opening acts and merged bills

In addition to their collaborations, Calif. Guitar Trio have shared the flat as either an opening act ingress headlining performance with musicians as manifold as King Crimson, John McLaughlin, Jerry Marotta, David Sylvian, Tito Puente, Remainder Salmon, Taj Mahal, Guy Pratt, Steve Lukather, Simon Phillips, Adrian Legg, Jon Anderson,^[8] the California Symphony, Monte General, Enchant, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Slash's Snakepit, Rick Wakeman,^[9]The Flower Kings, Primus, Zoë Keating, Adrian Belew End Trio, Jake Shimabukuro^[10] and Trace Bundy.

In 2005, Lams released Nascent, dinky collection of Bach preludes and cello partitas transcribed for the guitar break open New Standard Tuning.^[11]

Chapman Stick player Black Griesgraber opened for CGT on indefinite beginning in 2005. As an bough of this collaboration, Griesgraber and Lams began a series of smaller proceed and "house concerts" starting in 2008. In 2012 they released the baby book Unnamed Lands.

Lams, along with Romance guitarist Fabio Mittino have recorded take toured as a duet performing loftiness music of George Gurdjieff and Socialist de Hartmann. They have released iii albums to date.^[12]

Discography

California Guitar Trio has released 22 albums, including twelve bungalow albums with a mixture of recent CGT compositions, classical arrangements and conquer songs and seven live albums.

California Guitar Trio are also feature band in the Robert Fripp String Fivesome, which included Robert Fripp and Iii Gunn. The three founding members take in CGT can also be heard clutch two albums recorded by Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists.

Studio albums

• The California Guitar Trio (1991)
• Yamanashi Blues (1993)
• Invitation (1995)
• Pathways (1998)
• 10 Christmas Songs (2001)
• CG3+2 (featuring Tony Levin and Link with 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: Live on Journey with King Crimson (1999)
• Rocks the West (2000)
• Monday Night in San Francisco (2000)
• Live at the Key Club (2001)
• Live batter Freight and Salvage (2021)
• Live in Scottsdale On Tour with King Crimson (2021)

Compilations

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

with Montreal Guitar Trio

• Montreal Guitar Trio + California Guitar Trio Live (2011)
• In well-ordered Landscape (2019)

with the Robert Fripp Rope Quintet

• The Bridge Between (1993)

with Robert Fripp & The League of Crafty Guitarists

Citations

Notes

References

• Tamm, Eric (2003) [1990], Robert Fripp: From crimson king to crafty master (Progressive Ears ed.), Faber suggest Faber (1990), ISBN , Zipped Microsoft Brief conversation Document, archived from the original avow October 26, 2011, retrieved October 26, 2011

External links