Trevor Dunn

Trevor Roy Dunn ( born January 30, 1968 in Eureka ) is an American composer and bassist. As one of the " most versatile innovators in the Bay Area scene " in California it is for him " no contradiction ", " while enjoying heavy metal and free jazz. " Dunn was in the 1990s acquainted with the experimental jazz core group Mr. Bungle. Since then he has worked in various projects of different musical expression.

Life and work

Dunn started the bass playing at the age of 13 years. When his first influences he named the Beach Boys, Blondie, Cheap Trick, and Kiss but also Venom, The Swans and Slayer. 1986 at the age of 18 he founded with Mike Patton and Trey Spruance the music project Mr. Bungle, which in its early days are a mixture of thrash metal, hard rock and funk produced. Meanwhile, Dunn studied bass, double bass and music. He completed his studies in 1990 at the age of 22 years successfully. Two more years later appeared with their self-titled major debut of the band Mr. Bungle the first national and international publication at the same time at Warner Bros. Records. Since then, Dunn works for and with various musicians, composers and artists. Particular emphasis is doing his collaborations with singer and label founder Mike Patton, the composer John Zorn, Curtis Hasselbring, the group Secret Chiefs 3 Bob Ostertag took him for his production Pantychrist.

In the chamber jazz bands of Ben Goldberg and John Schott he fell " as a sensitive improviser " on. Furthermore, Dunn worked with and for a variety of musicians such as Sean Lennon, The Melvins, Brian Welch and David Krakauer. In particular, his repeated activity for John Zorn and Mike Patton contributed to its popularity as a studio and live musician. For anger, he took part in other projects at the Electric Masada, and Moonchild Trio.

He also wrote the film music for various independent films.

Band projects

Founded in 1986 Mr. Bungle broke up in 2000. In the meantime, they played a four demo tapes and three albums. The band's style varied, meanwhile, with each release, but played elements of jazz and metal, as well as vulgar and obscene behavior, and black humor is always a major role in music, text and stage presence of the band. In addition to this project, which is largely borrowed from the punk and metal, Dunn played both classical and jazz sets as well as commercial Lounge performances in and around San Francisco. Mid 90 Dunn founded with Mr. Bunglemitgliedern Danny Heifetz and Trey Spruance under whose creative direction the Secret Chiefs 3 Also, this band plays like Mr. Bungle not clearly designating style and mixes surf rock with oriental music, death metal and other influences. In 1998, Dunn his own stand-alone tape project with varying fellow musicians under the title Trevor Dunn's Trio - convulsant. The band, which included guitarist Adam Levy and drummer Kenny wool eating, playing a jazz version with influences of doom metal and rock. A year later, Mike Patton initiated the supergroup Fantômas and invited Dunn a moment. The band with Buzz Osborne of The Melvins and Dave Lombardo of Slayer released four albums since then, which is largely the style can assign Jazz Metal, but use among other elements of Industrial and Ambient. In 2008, Dunn founded MadLove another band. Contrary to his previous work but play MadLove neither complex nor Jazz Metal but a catchy blend of blues, rock and pop music.

Important investments

  • Andrew N D'Angelo DNA Orchestra
  • Fantômas
  • Head - Save Me from Myself
  • John Zorn's Cobra
  • John Zorn's Electric Masada
  • John Zorn The Moonchild Trio
  • MadLove
  • Mr. Bungle
  • Secret Chiefs 3
  • Terror Syndrome
  • The Melvins - A Live History of Gluttony and Lust
  • The Melvins - Freak Puke
  • The Rob Price Quartet
  • Tomahawk - Oddfellows
  • Trevor Dunn's Trio - convulsant
  • Yuka Honda - Eucademix

Equipment

Bass

Effects

  • Line6 Delay Modeler
  • Line 6 Distortion Modeler
  • BOSS RV-3 Reverb / Delay
  • BOSS FV -50 Volume
  • Mid- Fi Glitch Computer
  • Digitech Echo Plus 8 Sec. delay

Amplifter

  • Acoustic Image Focus 1

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5

Left

  • Trevor Dunn's Homepage
  • Ipecac Records page to Trevor Dunn's Trio convulsant
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