The Third Star

The Third Star Artist: Trey Gunn
Label: Discipline
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 782284960620
EAN: 0782284960620
ASIN: B000005ONZ


Release Date: 1996-01-01

The Third Star


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Tracks:

  1. Dziban
  2. Symbiotic
  3. Arrakis
  4. Sirrah
  5. The Third Star
  6. Acquiring Canopus
  7. Kaffaljidhma
  8. Yad Al-Gawza
  9. Kuma
  10. Indiera

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A really great CD.......2004-12-04

I really like this CD - it is a superb mix of electronica, fripp's Soundscape stuff, and rock. I especially like the songs "Kuma" and the title track "Dziban". The only tracks that I'm not overjoyed with are "Indiera" and "Arrakis".

It is also interesting to note that most all of these songs feature 2-3 people at the most. Trey Gunn's Warr guitar handles the bass, the rhythm, the solos.. and either Bob Muller or Pat Mastelloto gets drums and percussion. On the 2nd, 5th, and 10th song, there are female singers too, the first being in English, the second (Italian?) and the third, what I can only imagine as being Latin or Greek.

Anyways... if you enjoy Soundscapes, Powerful and emotional ambient, or rythmic electronic rock, get this.

5 out of 5 stars wonderful stuff.......2000-11-15

I'm a fan of Fripp and King Crimson too, but I don't think Trey's similarity in style should be a negative thing. I mean, these guys play together BECAUSE they have similar ideas and taste. This is a fine album. One my my favorite in my entire cD collection, and I have hundreds.

2 out of 5 stars Dark, Boring, but great skill........1999-06-13

Well, Trey gun is a master of craft, technicly very good musician, but this suonds much like Fripp(you know, frippertronics, soundscapes, duets with adrian on Discipline), and not in a good way, in fact, it even gets quite boring at times. Track one, and the title track, seem very interesting, and obviously provide a basis, the rest is predictable, and, then the last track, well Iknew that King crimson also means Baalzebub, but this is just too much, interesting voice though, but tooo dark, even sounds pretty much evil, you know stuff that scares children, and most adults(if it doesnt make them laugh). Sorry Trey, two stars, listening to the DGM catalogue, first album sounds better.

3 out of 5 stars Still moving out of Fripp's shadow.......1999-02-03

Trey Gunn is probably the best known master of the Warr guitar, but he is probably better known as that guy who works with Robert Fripp. An alumnus of Fripp's advanced guitar craft seminars, Gunn has worked with Fripp in at least 5 different groups (depending on how you count: The League of Crafty Guitarists, The Robert Fripp String Quintet, Sunday All Over the World, Sylvian/Fripp and King Crimson) - normally filling the role of bass player, although without ever picking up a bass guitar. It would be impossible to work through all that and not be influenced by Fripp, and Gunn certainly has been. On Third Star, he sometimes sounds as much like Fripp as Fripp does. He's still struggling to establish who exactly Trey Gunn is, and there's more work to do, although Third Star is a good step in that direction.

In person, TG appears to be an easy-going, gentle, lanky Texan who happens to be equipped with impressive dexterity, but this album reveals a darker side. The complex tracks are atmospheric and at times almost angry. Not blind rage, but a slow burning fury.

There are three tracks featuring different female singers: Toyah Willcox, Alice, and Serpentine. All three work well, but all in entirely different ways. Maybe that's the key: he works most creatively as part of a team, rather than alone.

Of course, the quality of the musicianship is impeccable and the production is transparent. This is, after all, a Discipline release.

5 out of 5 stars

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