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Acid Jazz aficionados will recall the Bay Area jazz-funk quartet, Junk. Three incredibly funky albums (Faffco Records ?94-?97), a few Bay Area Music Awards, a two-year residency at the legendary Up & Down Club and a lot of touring and what remains is Post Junk Trio. David Robbins and Frank Swart were founding members of Junk and Ian Herman was the band?s drummer during its last year. After Junk?s demise, which left them a trio, they were just gigging around San Francisco as David Robbins Trio or whatever other incredibly clever names they could think of. Sometime in late 1999, it occurred to them what it was that they were, Post Junk Trio. Now, after a year of ?wallpapering? the hippest SF nightspots (they refer to their live sound as, ?Funky Wallpaper? and /or ?Dinner Funk?) and recording at Swart?s home studio they have completed their debut CD, Reservoir Fish.
Reservoir Fish, (a play on Quentin Tarantino?s 1990 Film, Reservoir Dogs) is an enjoyable and unpredictable ride through contrasting musical landscapes. Transcending genres, Post Junk Trio explores Acid Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Modal Jazz, Roots Rock and even a French folk song eulogizing Swart?s dear friend Mark Sandman of Morphine. The album, which features guest appearances by Patty Griffin, DJ Ill Media , Matt Brubeck and several others, is musically all over the map, but refreshingly never goes completely off the road. Perhaps the love of music, that is obvious throughout Reservoir Fish, is the only navigational system required.
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