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Golden Arm Trio BioSometimes only bandleader/composer Graham Reynolds, and sometimes a 40 piece orchestra, the The Golden Arm Trio is anything but predictable.
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The groups first CD, the self-named The Golden Arm Trio, was a tight and creative jazz album with cleverly written, original compositions that reinvented the genre. Golden Arm Trio is involved in dance, theatre, puppetry, performance art, experimental films, and new scores to silent films, which are performed live at the Alamo Draft House. Graham has worked with choreographers Andrea Ariel, Ellen Bartel, Ashley Overton, and others. Theatre projects have included productions by Salvage Vanguard Theatre, the Rude Mechanicals, Vortex Repertory Theatre. Golden Arm Trio's second CD, Why the Sea is Salt, is a large ensemble classical work. Why the Sea is Salt, shows Graham's development as a composer, and features the Tosca String Quartet. Reynolds may be at the podium, at the piano, saxaphone or drums. Beyond that, the cast is revolving. "Reynolds is often pigeonholed as a jazz artist merely for lack of a more appropriate term, but his classical compositions for the Tosca String Quartet belie such a designation once and for all," according to the Austin Chronicle. There is more information at Golden Arm Trio's web site. |
Golden Arm Trio's Albums
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Golden Arm Trio Album Review:
creepy, yet satisfying at 2001-05-23 Its really hard to decide on a good word to describe this cd. It is absolutely one of the most stunning pieces of music that I have ever heard. One moment Im frightened by this cd, the next I want to get up and do a strange little dance. I am, however, very afraid of falling asleep while listening to this cd. Golden Arm Trio Album Review: Beautiful and Haunting at 2000-08-01 This is, quite simply, a beautiful and haunting album. The melodies are intricate but impossible to forget after a couple of listenings. I keep this in my computer cd player and listen to it over and over, and I always discover something new--instrumentation Id never noticed, a different mood, an echo of another song. Im afraid I found the first Golden Arm album a little hard to get into, but this is accessible and also deep. Great production values, too. Much, much better than Golden Earring! Golden Arm Trio Album Editorial: Why The Sea Is Salt is the second full-length release by Austins Golden Arm Trio. Recorded with 16 musicians (including the string quartet of Austin tango group Tosca) on a variety of classical string instruments and traditional jazz brass/woodwinds Sea is a collection of compositions inspired by the fairy tale of the same name and select pieces from GA3s accompaniment to the Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin (which has been performed in both Austin and San Francisco). Alternately playful intense and breathtaking Sea is a must for any fan of Prokofiev Bernard Herrmann or even John Zorn. Golden Arm Trio Album Editorial: At first glance the Golden Arm Trio sounds like a hyper-creative band of genre benders. That initial impression turns out to be roundly accurate. Its also incomplete. As it turns out the trio is really not a trio at all. Graham Reynolds an Austin Texas polymath known for film scores evocative string passages and gut-busting intensity is the trio but hes always got lots of collaborators to help him out. Like Richard Marriott of the Club Foot Orchestra Reynolds makes music that either overtly or covertly goes swimmingly with films and dramas. IBattleship Potemkin a puppet theater troupe and more are the occasions for some of this dramatic music and the rest is simply potent in its own many-limbed way. There are richly swaying string quartets from the Tosca String Quartet eerie organ draperies thrown across orchestral hints pieces that sound like charged post-bop jazz and plenty of space for this all to take stage seamlessly. IWhy the Sea Is Salt is a great work one that recalls the early days of Kronos Quartet and all their promise. Andrew Bartlett |
