Gorge Trio is an American

United States

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 experimental rock band based in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

. It is composed of three-fourths of the critically acclaimed math rock

Math rock

Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by progressive rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage...

 band Colossamite

Colossamite

Colossamite was a mid-to-late 1990s math rock band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were one of the most prominent exponents of the genre....

, which disbanded in 1998, and is survived by three releases on Skin Graft Records

Skin Graft Records

Skin Graft Records is an independent record label specializing in No Wave and noise rock music, originally based in Chicago, Illinois...

.

Gorge Trio includes current members of Deerhoof

Deerhoof

Deerhoof is a musical group consisting of Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Ed Rodriguez and Greg Saunier.-Origins:In 1992, Greg Saunier, having recently graduated with a degree in music composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, joined a short-lived San Francisco quartet called Nitre Pit, on...

, The Flying Luttenbachers

The Flying Luttenbachers

The Flying Luttenbachers were an instrumental unit led by multi-instrumentalist / composer / producer Weasel Walter. The Luttenbachers have created a large body of work focusing on an agenda of musical extremity and dissonance...

, Natural Dreamers, and former members of underground pioneers Iceburn and Sicbay.

Albums

• Dead Chicken Fear No Knife (Freeland Records - Italy, 1998)
• For Loss Of - w/ Milo Fine (Freeland Records - Italy, 1999)
• The Made Ups (Self Released, 2002)
• Open Mouth, o' Wisp (Skin Graft Records
  Skin Graft Records
  Skin Graft Records is an independent record label specializing in No Wave and noise rock music, originally based in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  , 2004)

External links

• Gorge Trio - MySpace
• Skin Graft Records band page
• Puzzling Archive, MP3 tracks from the first two out of print albums
• Gorge Trio page
• [ Allmusic entry for Gorge Trio]