3hattrio
Date: Friday, 6th September 2019
Time: 7:00 pm
Three Hat Trio (3hattrio)
The everley eclectic critically acclaimed trio counts the rings on its tree from early 2013 when Eli, violinist and boy wonder just turned sixteen. They wake each day grateful to live where they live and for the magic of music in their lives. If you’re in to authentic, gritty and innovative Americana, this is the band for you. The Trio now has four albums under their collective belt and the most recent, LORD OF THE DESERT has been graced with phenomenal reviews (see below). The group is particular joyous about their inclusion in the genre busting “Best albums of 2018,” from legendary jazz historian and critic Ted Giola.
For 3hattrio, the Southwest desert has an almost spiritual significance. Rooted in the natural world of their sacred homeland near Zion National Park in Utah, they say that their genre is “American desert music,” a simple idea for a complex sound. The music 3hattrio are making sounds more like extended landscapes of sound, bare mesas that ring with electronic echoes of acoustic instruments, twisting and turning as the wind shifts. 3hattrio mix the routine with the unusual, fusing American folk music with outsider elements like autotune, psychedelia, and minimalism. It’s a wildly unusual sound, but the product of three very different musicians coming together to form something new.
Hal Cannon sings, plays banjo and guitar and writes many of the 3hattrio songs. He’s been a practicing musician most of his life but also takes pride in his life as a folklorist, radio producer and scholar of cowboy lore. Greg Istock plays acoustic bass and foot percussion. He has a Caribbean music background and is an active visual artist. Eli Wrankle is a classically trained violinist and a student at Southern Utah University. He comes from a family of artists. Now, turning 22, he is the old soul of the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEmWd7G23eU
What others are saying:
“Gloriously beautiful and savagely strange” Marc Higgins, Northern Sky Magazine”
“It’s a beautiful thing to be able to retain the traditional sound and spike it with haunting, ghostly and noir-inspired ambiance.” John Apice, NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE
“Creating an atmosphere of big mystery and weirdness without resorting to sonic clichés of the West.” John Adamian, RELIX Magazine
“Fascinatingly original” Magnet Magazine
“It’s a compelling, hypnotizing, uncompromising album that naturally pushes boundaries to create an idiosyncratic genre this band can rightly call its own.” American Songwriter Magazine
“Their most adventurous and eclectic work yet – long may they reign.”
Mike Davies for Folk Radio UK
“Sit and listen closely and you’ll be repaid with something that captures a spirit, a feel – the sense of the uncompromising desert life and how men live with it as they deal with the awe it creates.” Mike Wistow – folking.com
“A highly original and inspired album” Cowboys and Indians Magazine
“Listen to the sense of freedom in the music” 8/10 Rick Bayles, Americana – UK Magazine
“3hattrio have delivered a record that is very high on aspiration, imagination and vision but never at the expense of the listening experience.” Paul Jackson, Fatea – UK
“3hattrio is unlike anything you ever heard. Guaranteed.” Culture Collide Magazine
“There’s a strange other-worldly feel to this music, the taste of another time, a reflection of a place long-visited, and of spirit and life-force.”Tom Franks FolkWords
“Lord Of The Desert screams for time and attention…It is music that makes the clock tick less quickly and it is music that pulls you into the American desert whether you want it or not.” Erwin Zijleman for De Krenten Ult de Pop – Netherlands
“Incredible soundscapes painted by the hugely talented 3hattrio.”
Mike Morrison, AmericanRootsUK
“One of the most intriguing and exciting albums I’ve heard this year.”
Blues Matters, ANDY SNIPPER
“Their music somehow evokes the desert’s beauty, it’s heat, cold and dangers.”
David Innes, RnR Magazine UK
“Haunting in its drama and nicely executed,” Michael Dunn, Penguin Eggs Magazine
“An open range of a record, with this trio wandering like spirit animals over a landscape that covers cowboy poetry to airy space jams.” Gary Whitehouse, Green Man Review
“Mind expanding in the best sense… a string band par excellence” Paul Kerr, Blabber ‘n’ Smoke
Tickets £12 on sale directly from the cafe in person, online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/472946 (10% admin fee applies) or on the door on the night. Doors open 7pm Gig starts 8pm
BAR ONLY. NO FOOD SERVED