Trey Gunn

Trey Gunn
Trey Gunn playing Warr Guitar with KTU at Tampere Jazz Happening 2005
Background information
Born	December 13, 1960 (1960-12-13) (age 48)
Genre(s)	Experimental, Art Rock, Jazz Fusion, Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, World Music
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Warr guitar Chapman Stick Fretless Bass Bass Guitars Keyboards
Years active	1983 -
Associated acts	King Crimson The Trey Gunn Band Quodia TU KTU UKZ
Website	Trey Gunn - “TOUCH GUITAR” FREAK

Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician probably best known for his membership in progressive rock King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.

Biography

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^[1]. He then moved to New York City where his professional career 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 to 1991, he toured playing Chapman Stick in the UK and Europe, with Toyah Willcox, Robert Fripp and Paul Beavis, at first under the band project name "Fripp, Fripp" who by the second 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 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, Sean Malone and Gordian Knot, 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

Solo 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)
• Music for Pictures (2008)

With King Crimson (selected discography)

• VROOOM (1994)
• THRAK (1995)
• THRaKaTTaK (1996)
• Deja VROOOM (DVD) (1999)
• The ProjeKcts (4CD Box Set) (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)
• Cortlandt - Sean Malone (1996)
• 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)
• Squeeze Me Ahead of Line - The Season Standard (2008)

References

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External links

• Trey Gunn homepage
• Trey Gunn homepage on MySpace
• Quodia homepage
• Quodia homepage on MySpace
• DGM/King Crimson homepage