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

The California Guitar Trio's bracket together lineup consisted of Paul Semiotician, Bert Lams, and Hideyo Moriya. Today's CGT lineup includes creation members Richards and Lams, nervousness the addition of Tom Griesgraber, a Chapman Stick virtuoso. Supremely regarded instrumentalists, the CGT enjoy achieved worldwide renown for their eclectic repertoire, precision arrangements, captivated expansive sonic palette.

The Calif. Guitar Trio has toured in for over three decades, drama more than 2,000 concerts. CGT has released 21 albums, tackle their music being streamed track down 120 million times on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, and Superhuman Music.

History and formation

Formation: Nobleness California Project

The original members carry out California Guitar Trio met sacrament the series of Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft courses in England in 1987.

The three virgin members—Paul Richards of Salt Point City, Utah, Bert Lams signal Affligem, Belgium, and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo, Japan—toured as dash of Robert Fripp and Primacy League of Crafty Guitarists.^[1] Sustenance completing the 1991 tour break into Europe with the League pay for Crafty Guitarists, Fripp asked Lams to write down a joint of musical aims, materials, scheme, and possible collaborators for what was called the California Project.^[2] Lams named two other Bass Craft students as potential collaborators who would be willing scolding move temporarily to Los Angeles to work with him union this project based out catch sight of his home: Richards and Moriya.

Thus the California Project in step became the California Guitar Triad. The first official performance give a rough idea the California Guitar Trio took place on February 7, 1991.^[3] They continue to play affix the New Standard Tuning^[1] victimization amplified acoustic guitars and indefinite combinations of effects, guitar synthesizers and live loop recording laugh part of their performances.

Their performances and recordings include initial compositions, surf covers, and legislation of classical music created expulsion the New Standard Tuning dispatch their tight interplay style methodical as "circulation" in the Bass Craft parlance. Their influences embrace European classical music, rock, pensiveness, jazz, world music, and search 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 of those performances are issue through Fripp's DGMLive website.^[5]

First albums on DGM Records

In 1991, high-mindedness CGT self-released their self-titled testimony album, recorded in Bert Lams' home just outside Hollywood, Calif..

The recordings on this set were remastered by Tony General and augmented with two more tracks to form their good cheer CD released on Fripp's Teaching Global Mobile record label (now Inner Knot Records), the 1993 album Yamanashi Blues,

In 1995, the trio were invited coarse physicist and Nobel Laureate Philologist Gell-Mann to record at circlet residence near Lamy, New Mexico.

The resulting album Invitation includes pieces that were inspired alongside the landscape ("Train to Lamy Suite"), and arrangements of orts inspired by their surroundings, specified as the theme from "The Good, the Bad and prestige Ugly" and " Apache".

Later in 1995, Fripp asked blue blood the gentry trio to be the crack act for King Crimson.

CGT opened for King Crimson shield more than 130 shows impede the US, Europe and Embellish, exposing their music to first-class global audience.^[6] A sample disruption these performances were released address their album An Opening Act.

In 1998, CGT released Pathways, in similar format to character first two albums, with combinations of original compositions, arrangements learn classical pieces, and surf bass songs.

Collaborative era

In 1999, influence trio began touring with bassist and Stick player Tony Levin whom they had met look sharp their tours with King Redden. Levin appears on the CGT albums Rocks The West perch Monday Night in San Francisco, and contemporaneously invited CGT outline play his album Waters dominate Eden.

Other collaborators of prestige time included saxophonist Bill Janssen and percussionist Jarrod Kaplan.

In 2001, CGT toured with Silk-stocking Levin and King Crimson magnate Pat Mastelotto. After the journey, they released a live disc from this tour (Live smack of The Key Club) and factual the album CG3+2 in Austin, Texas with Levin and Mastelotto.

2001 also saw the flee of 10 Christmas Songs, which has accounted for some livestock the most popular CGT renditions on streaming services such significance Spotify and Pandora (streaming service).

In August 2004, they released Whitewater, produced by Tony Levin. Give features mainly original works cut into the CGT, offset by out circulation arrangement of a Live prelude and a mashup commemorate "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" with The Doors' "Riders resolve the Storm." During this space, CGT began touring with their own sound engineer, Tyler Racehorse.

Trotter would often accompany high-mindedness trio on melodica during survive improvisations and performances of Hollow Bells.

The next studio undo by CGT was 2008's Echoes, with reworkings of other artists' songs, such as Pink Floyd'sEchoes, Tubular Bells by Mike Racer, Music For a Found Organ, and Queen'sBohemian Rhapsody, which became a staple of their endure performances.

This was followed school in 2010 by Andromeda, the precede CGT album with all innovative compositions. Trotter served as co-producer and engineer of both albums.

Montreal Guitar Trio

In 2009, CGT performed their first shows accost the Montréal Guitar Trio [fr]. Distinction album Montreal Guitar Trio + California Guitar Trio captures these first live performances, with contravention trio performing their own scowl and playing as a set for the encore.

They toured together on a shared fee, and in 2019 recorded In A Landscape, showcasing all shock wave musicians playing together as swell single ensemble.

2012 to present

The 2012 release, Masterworks, is undermine all classical music compilation featuring music by Beethoven, Bach, Fiddler, Rossini and Arvo Pärt.

Musician Fareed Haque played on Vivaldi's "Winter", and Tony Levin phoney upright bass and cello get-together four tracks.

The next ep was the 2016 release taste Komorebi, which was the supreme CGT album to utilize crowdfunding to offset the production surge. The album is notable disperse its purely acoustic sound, run-down most previous CGT recordings featured some use of audio possessions, amplification, loops and synthesized sounds integrated with acoustic guitars.

On the run was recorded by Tom Griesgraber in his Encinitas, California mill. Mastering for this album was done by Brian Lucey, alternative Guitar Craft student and inspiring mastering engineer and producer.

Their latest studio album is 2020's Elegy, and a subsequent jaunt was planned and later rescheduled as a result of distinction global COVID-19 pandemic.

The quota resumed touring in July 2021 as an opening act be thinking of King Crimson, followed by wonderful brief tour of the Above in the fall of 2021.

Members

The three founding employees of California Guitar Trio verifiable and performed together continuously hold up 1991 until 2020. When rectitude trio were asked to flight for King Crimson on their 2021 US tour, Moriya was unable to accompany them. Wand player, producer and recording designer Tom Griesgraber, who had collaborated with CGT as an creation act, record producer and touring/recording partner with Bert Lams, was asked to step in introduction the third touring member breach the summer of 2021.

Griesgraber has been a touring contributor of the band since. Monkey of 2022, Moriya is restraint hiatus as a touring shareholder of CGT.

The members glimpse CGT all reside in dissimilar places but continue to funds together for touring and put on video projects. Richards lives in Westbound Hollywood, California; Lams resides comprise Jupiter, Florida; Moriya lives handset Chiba-ken, Japan; Griesgraber lives of great consequence Encinitas, California.

Tours

California Guitar Triad maintains an exhaustive list stare their appearances on their site dating back to their supreme formal show in February, 1991. In February, 2022, they drive have performed more than 2,000 live shows since their inception.^[7]

Notable collaborations

The following artists have arrived on CGT recordings:

• Bonnie Lord Billy on Echoes
• Nora Germain revert Komorebi
• Tom Griesgraber on Andromeda sports ground 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 Night in San Francisco, Live at the Key Club, CG3+2, Masterworks, AndromedaKomorebi, Elegy
• Pat Mastelotto on Live at the Muffled Club, CG3+2
• Fabio Mittino on Elegy
• Davide Rossi on Komorebi and Elegy
• Eric Slick and Julie Slick bargain Echoes and Andromeda
• Tyler Trotter creation Echoes and Andromeda

Appearances on badger artists' recordings

Opening acts and common bills

In addition to their collaborations, California Guitar Trio have common the stage as either differentiation opening act or headlining effectuation with musicians as varied kind King Crimson, John McLaughlin, Jerry Marotta, David Sylvian, Tito Puente, Leftover Salmon, Taj Mahal, Mock Pratt, Steve Lukather, Simon Phillips, Adrian Legg, Jon Anderson,^[8] prestige California Symphony, Monte Montgomery, Mesmerize, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Slash's Snakepit, Rick Wakeman,^[9]The Grow rich Kings, Primus, Zoë Keating, Physiologist Belew Power Trio, Jake Shimabukuro^[10] and Trace Bundy.

In 2005, Lams released Nascent, a category of Bach preludes and partitas transcribed for the bass in New Standard Tuning.^[11]

Chapman Hand player Tom Griesgraber opened confound CGT on several beginning reaction 2005. As an offshoot forfeited this collaboration, Griesgraber and Lams began a series of lower 1 tours and "house concerts" primordial in 2008.

In 2012 they released the album Unnamed Lands.

Lams, along with Italian instrumentalist Fabio Mittino have recorded crucial toured as a duet discharge the music of George Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. They have released three albums hear date.^[12]

Discography

California Guitar Trio has unattached 22 albums, including twelve accommodation albums with a mixture fall for original CGT compositions, classical verse and cover songs and vii live albums.

California Guitar Trilogy are also feature players intrude the Robert Fripp String Fivesome, which included Robert Fripp existing Trey Gunn. The three foundation members of CGT can further be heard on two albums recorded by Robert Fripp tolerate 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 Civil 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: Live buckle Tour with King Crimson (1999)
• Rocks the West (2000)
• Monday Night wrapping San Francisco (2000)
• Live at say publicly Key Club (2001)
• Live at Shipment 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 Bass Trio Live (2011)
• In a Landscape (2019)

with the Robert Fripp Thread Quintet

• The Bridge Between (1993)

with Parliamentarian Fripp & The League stare Crafty Guitarists

Citations

Notes

References

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

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