Tristan Psionic was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band.

Formed in the early 1990s in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, the band consisted of vocalist Sandy McIntosh, guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist Mark Milne, bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

ist Gary "Wool" McMaster and drum

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

mer Tim Potocic. The band formed its own label, Sonic Unyon Records, to release its albums and developed the imprint into Canada's largest independent label.

After Wool's departure, Heimlich Maneuver bassist Peter Kirkpatrick was enlisted to help write and record TPA Flight 028

TPA Flight 028

TPA Flight 028 is the second album by Canadian indie rock group Tristan Psionic. It was released in 1996 on Sonic Unyon, a record label started by three members of the band. TPA is the IATA code of Tampa International Airport, but it more likely stands for the fictional "Tristan Psionic...

and was replaced by April Sabucco shortly thereafter. Sabucco was in turn replaced by Rob Higgins on the band's final release, Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap (Tristan Psionic album)

Mind the Gap is the third album by Canadian indie rock group Tristan Psionic. It was released in 2000 on Sonic Unyon, a record label started by three members of the band....

.

Discography

• The Sounds of Tristan Psionic
  The Sounds of Tristan Psionic
  The Sounds of Tristan Psionic is the debut album by Canadian indie rock group Tristan Psionic. It was released in 1994 on Sonic Unyon, a record label started by three of the four members of the band...
  
  (Sonic Unyon
  Sonic Unyon
  Sonic Unyon Recording Company is an independent record label based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The retail store is located on Wilson Street near James Street North)...
  
  , 1994)
• TPA Flight 028
  TPA Flight 028
  TPA Flight 028 is the second album by Canadian indie rock group Tristan Psionic. It was released in 1996 on Sonic Unyon, a record label started by three members of the band. TPA is the IATA code of Tampa International Airport, but it more likely stands for the fictional "Tristan Psionic...
  
  (Sonic Unyon, 1996)
• Mind the Gap
  Mind the Gap (Tristan Psionic album)
  Mind the Gap is the third album by Canadian indie rock group Tristan Psionic. It was released in 2000 on Sonic Unyon, a record label started by three members of the band....
  
  (Sonic Unyon, 2000)

Other releases

• The Allied Nations Victory (Sonic Unyon, 1999), split 7" with Primrods

External links

• Tristan Psionic at New Music Canada
• [ Tristan Psionic] at Allmusic
• Sonic Unyon Records