Trey Gunn

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Name = Trey Gunn

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Instrument = Warr guitar
Genre = Progressive rock, World Music
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1992 -
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Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician and an alumnus of the band King Crimson. He played with them from 1994 to 2003.

A native Texan who now resides in Seattle, Washington, Gunn began his musical life at the age of seven playing classical piano. His interest in music grew through various instruments: electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, and the touch guitar. He moved to Eugene, Oregon and played in punk bands while he completed a degree in classical music composition at the University of Oregon.cite web |url= http://www.treygunn.com |title= Trey Gunn homepage] He then moved to New York City where his professional life began.

He spent some time as a student of Guitar Craft with founder Robert Fripp and appeared on several "Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists" recordings. From 1988 through to 1991 he toured playing Chapman Stick in the UK an Europe, with Toyah Willcox, Robert Fripp and Paul Beavis, at first under the band project name "Fripp, Fripp" who by the 2nd tour became "Sunday All Over the World". They recorded and released one album in 1991 entitled "Kneeling At the Shrine". In the same year and with the SAOTW line up, he also played stick on the solo Toyah album "Ophelia's Shadow", produced by Toyah who was to later guest on his album "The Third Star".

In 1992, he was asked to join David Sylvian and Robert Fripp in a collaborative project that toured throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The band released "The First Day" and "Damage"—a live recording from the Royal Albert Hall in London. During this period Gunn also recorded his first solo album "One Thousand Years".

In 1994, Gunn joined King Crimson. With King Crimson he played Chapman Stick and subsequently diverse types of Warr guitar and was part of the "double trio" formation opposite Tony Levin. In 1997 King Crimson fragmented into smaller configurations known as the ProjeKcts—Gunn, along with Fripp, participated in all of the ProjeKcts performances and recordings. In 1999 the group mutated into a four piece—Belew, Fripp, Gunn and Mastelotto. He left Crimson after "The Power to Believe" tour in 2003. Over the course of his decade with the group he participated in thirty-three King Crimson CDs, two DVDs and hundreds of performances.

He has also performed and recorded with a number of other musicians: TOOL, Puscifer, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Vernon Reid, John Paul Jones, Eric Johnson, Italian singer Alice, Azam Ali, Matt Chamberlain, Michael Brook, Bill Rieflin, David Hykes of the Harmonic Choir and many more. He has released a number of solo albums, as Trey Gunn and as the leader of The Trey Gunn Band.

In 2003 Gunn founded the multi-media group Quodia with Joe Mendelson. In 2004 he and Pat Mastelotto started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU out of their respective duos TU and Kluster. In 2007, he began working with Eddie Jobson in the group UKZ.

In addition to helping run a collective music label based in Seattle called First World (FWD) and a multi-media production company (7 Directions), he is currently dividing his time between his solo work, film and television scoring, music supervising, and building multi-dimensional media projects.

Discography

olo albums

*"One Thousand Years" (1993)
*"The Third Star" (1996)
*"Raw Power" (1999)
*"The Joy of Molybdenum" (2000)
*"Live Encounter" (2001)
*"Road Journals" (CD-ROM) (2002)
*"Untune The Sky" (CD/DVD) (2003)

With King Crimson (selected discography)

*"VROOOM" (1994)
*"THRAK" (1995)
*"THRaKaTTaK" (1996)
*"Deja VROOOM" (DVD) (1999)
*"The ProjeKcts" (4CD Box Set) (1999)
*"The Deception of the Thrush" (1999)
*"The ConstruKction of Light" (2000)
*"Level Five" (2002)
*"The Power To Believe" (2003)
*"Eyes Wide Open" (DVD) (2003)

With others

*"Ophelia's Shadow" - "Toyah" (1991)
*"Kneeling at the Shrine" - "Sunday All Over the World" (1991)
*"The First Day" - "David Sylvian" / "Robert Fripp" (1993)
*"Damage" - "David Sylvian" / "Robert Fripp" (1994)
*"Dream" - "U. Srinivas" & "Michael Brook" (1994)
*"Charade" - "Alice" (1995)
*"Zooma" - "John Paul Jones" (1999)
*"The Repercussions Of Angelic Behavior" - "Bill Rieflin" / "Robert Fripp"/Trey Gunn (1999)
*"TU" - "TU" (2005)
*"8 Armed Monkey" - "KTU" (2005)
*"Elysium for the Brave" -"Azam Ali" (2006)
*"V Is for Vagina" - "Puscifer" (2007)
*The Arrow (CD/DVD) - "Quodia" (2007)

References

External links

* [http://www.treygunn.com Trey Gunn homepage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/treygunn Trey Gunn homepage] on MySpace
* [http://www.quodia.com Quodia homepage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/quodia Quodia homepage] on MySpace
* [http://www.dgmlive.com DGM/King Crimson homepage]