Power Patriot

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Power Patriot
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Studio album by Garage A Trois
Released October 27, 2009
Recorded Recorded Mike Napolitano at Number C, New Orleans. Mixed and mastered by Mel Dettmar at Aleph Studios.
Genre jazz/rock
Label The Royal Potato Family
Garage A Trois chronology
Outre Mer
(2005)		Power Patriot
(2009)		 Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil
(2011)

Power Patriot is the third studio album by Garage A Trois. It is the first CD with the musician line-up that includes Stanton Moore, Skerik, Mike Dillon and Marco Benevento. [1] It was released October 2009. [2] [3]

Garage A Trois

Garage A Trois 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.

Stanton Moore Jazz-Musician

Stanton Moore is an American funk, jazz, and rock drummer from New Orleans. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued a solo recording career and recorded with bands as diverse as jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter and heavy metal act Corrosion of Conformity.

Skerik American musician

Skerik is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, he is a pioneer in a playing style that has been called saxophonics.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Rescue Spreaders" (Benevento)
  2. "Fragile" (Benevento)
  3. "Dory's Day Out" (Dillon)
  4. "Electric Door Bell Machine" (Dillon, Benevento, Skerik)
  5. "Power Patriot" (Skerik)
  6. "Dugout" (Dillon)
  7. "Fat Redneck Gangster" (Dillon)
  8. "Purgatory" (Skerik)
  9. "Germs" (Dillon)
  10. "Computer Crimes" (Dillon)

Personnel

Mike Dillon (musician) American musician

Mike Dillon is a percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, vocalist and songwriter born in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Garage A Trois. He has performed with many musicians including Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Brave Combo, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Marco Benevento, Claude Coleman Jr., and New Orleans musicians Kevin O'Day, Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton. Dillon also performed in the 80's with local Dallas and Denton favorites Ten Hands.

Marco Benevento pianist, organist and composer

Marco Benevento is a pianist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who has been a fixture of the New York experimental music rock and jazz scene since 1999. He is the founder and recording engineer of Fred Short, a recording studio in Upstate New York, and a member of the rock groups Benevento/Russo Duo and Joe Russo's Almost Dead, both of which feature his regular musical collaborator Joe Russo.

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References

  1. ↑ liner notes
  2. ↑ Michael G. Nastos Power Patriot : Review allmusic.com
  3. ↑ Keith Spera Garage A Trois ranges from lounge jazz to prog-rock on a new CD The Times-Picayune , November 13, 2009.
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