Garage A Trois

Infobox musical artist
Name = Garage A Trois

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Img_capt = Garage A Trois at Tipitina's
with Mean Willie Green sitting in on drums.
April 28 2004
photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/46083256@N00/ Jason McCord]
Background = group_or_band
Origin = New Orleans, Louisiana
Birth_name =
Alias =
Years_active = 1998 – Present
Current_members = Stanton Moore Skerik Mike Dillon Marco Benevento
Label = Fog City Records Tone-Cool Telarc
Associated_acts = Galactic
URL = [http://www.garageatrois.com/ garageatrois.com]
Past_members = Charlie Hunter

Garage A Trois (aka GAT) is a quartet including drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik, vibraphone and percussionist Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Benevento. They play a variety of music including rock, funk and jazz. [http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-04-22/feat2.html Gambit cover story, Garage a Trois' Four-play] Cristina Diettinger, "Gambit", April 22, 2003 (the week leading to Jazz Fest) Retrieved March 13 2008]

History

Garage A Trois was originally a trio founded by Moore, eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, and Skerik. It formed during the 1998 recording of Stanton Moore's debut "All Kooked Out!", a session that also yielded Garage A Trois' debut recording "Mysteryfunk". Both albums were produced by Dan Prothero on his independent Fog City Records label. They were also both recorded "live with no over dubs". [liner notes] This is remarkable as "Mysteryfunk" sounds tonally and stylistically similar to heavily edited, sample-based club music. Whereas "All Kooked Out!" was rehearsed, "straight-toned" and promoted as the initial release, "Mysteryfunk" was mostly improvised with electronically effected instruments and as Moore has stated had "all the freaky stuff." [Interview WWOZ, All Kooked Out enhanced-CD, 1998, Fog City]

After success as a live act they took on vibraphonist and percussionist Mike Dillon. The quartet performed multiple tours on the national nightclub circuit and played at several festivals. They were known to perform a wide variety of music in any given show including funk, punk-rock with electronic effects, or straight-forward jazz. Also as a quartet they released two composed studio albums in 2003 and 2005 abandoning the "live with no overdubs" recording ethos.

In 2007 Moore, Skerik and Dillon continued to perform by the Garage A Trois moniker featuring other musicians such as John Medeski and Marco Benevento. [ [http://www.stateofmindmusic.com/articles_print.php?articleId=180 Conversation with Stanton Moore] Doug Collette, "www.stateofmindmusic.com", April 2007 Retrieved June 21 2007] The current quartet as of December 2007 including Moore, Skerik, Dillon and Benevento have been billed also as "Garage A Benevento", "Garaj A Benevento" and most recently as simply "Garage A Trois".

On December 20th 2007, the band (with Benevento) played a pre-recording show at D.B.A. in New Orleans. They announced that recording for a new Garage A Trois album was to begin the next morning. As of July 2008 clips from the pending album are available for listening on the Garage A Trois MySpace page.

Discography

* 1999 "Mysteryfunk" (Fog City)
* 2003 "Emphasizer" (Tone-Cool)
* 2005 "Outre Mer" (Telarc)
* 2008 TBA

External links

* [http://www.garageatrois.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/garageatrois Garage A Trois] at MySpace
* [http://www.fogworld.com/gat Fog City Records presents: Garage A Trois]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/GarageATrois Garage A Trois collection] at the Internet Archive's live music archive

References