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GYAN RILEY - GUITAR
TIMB HARRIS - VIOLIN/VIOLA
Violinist/violist and trumpet player Timb Harris' professional musical interests span from
contemporary chamber music to grinding death metal. He records and tours internationally with
the bands Estradasphere and Secret Chiefs 3. As a performer and recording artist, he has worked throughout the United States and internationally with many of today's leading 'new music' artists (William Winant, Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos Quartet], Carla Khilstedt, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, Eyvind Kang). His performances can be found in the catalogues of Tzadik Records, Mimicry Records, the End Records, Warner Bros., and more.
SCOTT AMENDOLA - DRUMS/HAND PERCUSSION
Scott Amendola first gained widespread notice a decade ago for his work in eight-string guitar ace Charlie Hunter's trio. Although he continues to work as a sideman, accompanying artists such as Madeleine Peyroux and Kelly Joe Phelps, in recent years he has stepped forward as the leader of several compelling bands that showcase his supremely supple trap work, notably his own Scott Amendola Band. He has toured and recorded with a vast array of stellar artists, such as Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Paul McCandless, Jacky Terrasson, and John Zorn.
"There's no way to pigeonhole the music of guitarist Gyan Riley and his trio. His music has a beauty all its own."
- San Francisco Examiner
"Yes, Gyan Riley's compositions tip their cap to Jazz, direct a friendly nod toward Flamenco by way of Africa and extend a hearty handshake to the Indian traditions, but rather than being a superficial search for novelty, they bear witness to a restless imagination and dedication to an art inherited not just from his composer father, Terry, but from those folk traditions nurtured by a longstanding heritage of sincerity, spirit and devotion.
It is of course a reflection of the continuing mockery music makes of the limits of language that we grasp like drowning men to driftwood for the nearest simile or tortured metaphor on which to hang the music that pours from these musicians. It is with this in mind that we scribes should lay down our pens and declare 'enough'. Enough talk, enough words, let these wonderful musicians take you where these impoverished words cannot tread."
- Rob Casey (The Journal of Music, Ireland)
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