New Tu-Ner Release and Tour

Tu-Ner (Trey Gunn, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto) have a new release on 7d Media for their West Coast tour this May.

Tu-Ner For Lovers at 7d

Tu-Ner For Lovers at Bandcamp

Tour Dates:

May 7 - Santa Fe, NM - Still to be confirmed
May 9 - Phoenix, AZ (The Rhythm Room)
May 10 - San Marcos, CA (The Bornemann Theater)
May 11 - Los Angeles, CA (The Baked Potato)

May 12 - Los Angeles, CA (The Baked Potato)

May 14 - Mill Valley, CA (Sweetwater Hall)
May 16 - Stockton, CA (Haggin Museum)

May 17 - Redding, CA (The Dip)

May 18 - Arcata, CA (Arcata Playhouse)

May 19 - Bend, OR (Volcanic Pub Theater)

May 20 - Eugene, OR (WOW Hall)

May 22 - Portland, OR (Alberta Abbey)

May 23 - Seattle, WA (Triple Door)

May 26 - Vancouver, BC - (BlueShore Financial Centre for Performing Arts)

Trey Gunn on tour with Tu-Ner + a new release

Tu-Ner is touch guitarist Markus Reuter, alongside the powerhouse rhythm section from the renowned 2000's lineup of King Crimson: Pat Mastelotto on drums and Trey Gunn on Warr guitar. 

Their new double-disc release is out on 7d now.

For more info, including USA tour dates beginning on August 14 go to Tu-Ner.com

Trey Gunn interview with "Produce Like A Pro"

Warren Huart at "Produce Like A Produce" does a deep dive with me about all things King Crimson, David Sylvian, John Paul Jones, Robert Fripp and many more. Plus we take a close look at my two Warr Guitars -- the 10-string and the 9-string half-fretless.

Happy Birthday King Crimson

Trey Gunn, Alonso Arreola & Michael Manring

Very cool tune by Alonso Arreola

KTU - Kimmo Pohjonen, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto

Live in Tavastia Club - Helsinki, Finland

KTU - Kimmo Pohjonen, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto

Modes Course 2022

Announcing the next Modes Course:

Modes 1 > October 9 - December 1, 2022 (9 weeks)

Modes 2 > Winter 2023 Dates to be confirmed laster this fall.
In Modes 2 we go into exotic modes, harmonic movement and modulation. Prerequisite is the Modes 1 Course.

link for more info and registration

For all instrumentalists and singers. Beginner to Advanced.

This will be the fifth year running. Highly recommended. Ask a friend who has attended. Some amazing things have happened with people's hearing, awareness and connection to sound and their instruments.

cheers, Trey

Click to read more ...

Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 - June 26, 2021)

Jon Hassell has been a constant a hero of mine.

For many years, staring at me every day, was a short list of hero names. Jon was the only musician on that list.

My heroes are, pretty much, based on persistence of vision. He had that dial set to high.

I have never played any of his music. I have never played with him. I’ve never seen him perform live. I know nothing about his personal or even professional life. All I know is from within the music. That has been enough to consistently set me on fire.

I can never listen to Jon’s recordings casually. They are an immediate jolt to my creative life and that’s how I approach them. I always find something startling and inspiring there. With most listenings, the seed of idea appears that I can take, plant into my world and grow something of my own. For me, this is a pinnacle of musicianship – that even one small phrase can open up whole worlds. Of course, you must make the effort to take it and run. Jon’s ideas, for me, come pre-built with running shoes.

His background is presented elsewhere, but it is of significant note that he studied with both Stockhausen and Pandit Pran Nath.

Click to read more ...

10-part Podcast - Trey Gunn & Markus Reuter

 Markus Reuter and I have done the most complete interview/discussion I have ever participated in.

It started out as one segment of his ongoing Podcast, but we quickly became so engaged that it blossomed out to 10 full episodes!

The spine of the discussion was a thorough look through all of my work -- through all the different time periods, instruments and approaches. Because Markus is so deeply informed about all the music he was full of deep and interesting questions. Sometimes extremely detailed questions about a specific piece or a story he had heard. We covered all of it!

(Keep in mind, all of these stories are entirely my own perspective.)

However, the fascinating thing that happened over the course of these discussions is that they really were discussions and dialogue -- not an interview. So, we ended up veering off into some strange and interesting topics including movement, psychology, martial arts, card magic, practice, trance states, leaving things incomplete, aging, innocence and so many other unexpected things that always ended up tying themselves back to music.

We did one whole episode just on exploring our compositional process. And we even did another where I interviewed Markus about his earliest musical experience.

This was an amazing process.

Topics touched on in Part Two

The making of Crimson's "VROOOM" ep + "THRAK", "TCOL", hard panning, The Third Star, Toni Childs, Shrinivas, David Bottrill, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Michael Brook, Real World Studios, The ProjeKcts(1, 2, 3 & 4), Quodia, Eno, Deception Of The Thrush, Oyster Soup, UKZ, TOOL, playing without hearing yourself the end of KC for me and more.

Trey Gunn & Markus Reuter - Youtube discussions

King Crimson - The Discipline Era Transcriptions

I am very happy to announce we have now put up for sale the latest King Crimson transcription book.

The Discipline Era Transcriptions

The book includes entire full-band transcriptions, tabs and drum notation of all three releases:

Discipline
Beat
Three Of A Perfect Pair

This version of King Crimson (Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Bill Bruford) shocked the world with the pioneering musical language brought forth on the "Discipline" release in 1981. They went on to record two more albums in this configuration -- "Beat" and "Three of a Perfect Pair".

Click to read more ...

Baking Cassette Tapes

I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole and the only way out is through.

About 8 weeks ago I started going through old boxes of tapes and digitizing them. The first batch was from the Sylvian/Fripp writing sessions at David’s apartment in London. Then it was Sunday All Over The World writing and rehearsals. Then Robert Fripp String Quintet shows. Most were cassettes with a few DATs mixed in.

Click to read more ...

Modes Courses announced

Announcing the next two Modes Courses:

Modes 1 > October 12 - December 13, 2020 (9 weeks)

Modes 2 > March 8 - April 25, 2021 (7 weeks)

This will be the third year running. Highly recommended. Ask a friend who has attended. Some amazing things have happened with people's hearing, awareness and connection to sound.

Plus many more new amazeballs to come.

cheers, Trey

Follow the link HERE for more info

Click to read more ...

Punkt & Firma - new solo guitar releases

Solo guitar recorded live on the evenings of March 16 & 17, 2020.

These pieces will reward detailed and repeated listening.
Likewise, they will punish casual listening.

- - -

I went out into the side yard, next to the open window of my studio.
I asked the crows how they found listening to this.
Their response was:

Put in 91%, get back 137%.
Put in 31% get back 13%. Or more likely -17%.

- - -

Trey Gunn - 10-string Warr Guitar + the occasional EBow and clips

Punkt recorded live on March 16, 2020
Firma recorded live on March 17, 2020

Both releases recorded to two channels.

1st channel - direct
2nd channel - Rode microphone on a Phil Jones Double Four amplifier

Firma was recorded, mixed & mastered at 96khz
All production completed at 7d Studios, Seattle

Artwork - Julia Hensley

Click to read more ...

Bill Rieflin

Bill Rieflin passed away on Tuesday, March 24.

I kept waiting for the light bulb to go off. The one that says: Bill is no longer here.

But it hadn’t.

Every move I made seemed to have him bumping into me. “What would Bill think of this reverb?” “Does Bill even like reverb?” “What about this edit?” “Does Bill even like edits?” "Would Bill think this curry is too spicy or not spicy enough?” and on and on.

This is no longer the case as of this Friday morning, three days since his departure. Now it feels like he is beginning to slide away.

- - -

Some random Bill memories.

“The Repercussions Of Angelic Behavior”. This recording came about basically because we had worked so efficiently on Bill’s solo recording “Birth Of A Giant.”

Click to read more ...

Intro To Modes Course 2019

October 14 - December 14, 2019

Work directly with Trey Gunn in this 9-week group course. We will break down one the basic building blocks of music – the modes -- into digestible parts, both sonically and theoretically, so you can use them with ease.

Don't let the title fool you. If you think you already know the modes, be prepared to think again. "Intro" simply means we start with the fundamentals. But you can take any of these practices as far as your ear will lead you.

This highly successful course ran last year and it is being offered again. A follow-up Intermediate Course (coming in February 2020) will take everything learned here and go further.

Modes Course info HERE