Trey Anastasio
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Trey Anastasio Biography
Since co-founding the seminal improv rock outfit Phish in 1983,
guitarist, composer, and songwriter Trey Anastasio has explored a wide
variety of musical pathways ranging from atonal fugues and elaborate
charts with Phish to adventurous free jazz on his first solo project,
Surrender to the Air (1996), to collaborations with the likes of Tom
Marshall, Les Claypool, Philip Glass, Stewart Copeland, and others.
After Phish went on long-term hiatus in late 2000, Anastasio focused on
a myriad of projects, including Oysterhead and his eight-piece solo
band.
Born Ernest Joseph Anastasio III in 1964, Anastasio attended Princeton
Day School in Princeton, NJ, where he met future songwriting partner
Tom Marshall. As a teenager, he helped his mother, Dina, write songs
for children's records. At the University of Vermont, he teamed up with
bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman, and guitarist Jeff Holdsworth
to form Phish. After being suspended from the university for a semester
for a prank gone awry, Anastasio transferred to the highly experimental
Goddard College outside of Burlington, where he studied intensely with
composer Ernie Stires while writing and rehearsing Phish's complicated
early material. Soon after, Holdsworth was replaced by keyboardist Page
McConnell.
Phish remained Anastasio's primary musical outlet for the duration of
the '80s and the '90s, as his original work progressed from lengthy
prog-influenced compositions, such as You Enjoy Myself of the
mid-'80s, to the more focused (though still complex) songs of Rift
(1993). While Phish placed more and more emphasis on group
improvisation, Anastasio's charts gradually fell by the wayside. In
1996, he organized and produced Surrender to the Air, a big-band free
jazz excursion with Sun Ra saxman Marshall Allen, organist John
Medeski, avant-garde guitarist Marc Ribot, experimental drummer Bob
Gullotti, and many others. Though Anastasio was nominally the leader of
the project, he played as an equal member of a large group of downtown
heavyweights.
The transformation of Anastasio's work from composition-based to
improvisation-based was completed in 1997 and 1998 with The Story of
the Ghost and The Siket Disc, two Phish releases chiseled out of hours
of collective jamming overseen by producer John Siket. Anastasio's
ongoing collaboration with Tom Marshall also resulted in a bevy of new
material, far too much for Phish to assimilate into their already
gigantic live repertoire. Though Anastasio brought some of the songs to
his newly formed side trio, he still felt he was holding back. Phish
performed at a massively successful New Year's celebration in Big
Cypress, FL, and in 2000 came the release of Farmhouse (entirely
written and produced by Anastasio), but given the band's increasingly
unfocused live performances, Phish decided to take a hiatus of an
undetermined length beginning in October of that year.
Anastasio went right to work, scoring an arrangement of the Phish song
Guyute (one of his last multi-sectioned compositions) for the Vermont
Youth Orchestra with mentor Ernie Stires. Following its performance, he
hit the road with a horn-bolstered version of his side trio and almost
a dozen new songs, many of which returned to the complicated work of
years past. Soon after, he wrote and recorded an album with Oysterhead,
a power trio of Anastasio along with Primus bassist Les Claypool and
former Police drummer Stewart Copeland, beginning a new chapter in his
musical history. His time spent with Oysterhead was experimental, but
not permanent. By early 2002, Anastasio prepped for his proper solo
release for Elektra. His groovy cool self-titled album was issued that
April and Anastasio returned to the road for a string of U.S. tour
dates.
The live effort Plasma appeared in April 2003, showcasing more than two
hours of performances from Anastasio's 2002 summer/fall trek of North
America. Seven brand-new tracks and a few covers were sprinkled into
the double-disc set as well. The all-instrumental Seis de Mayo was
released in April 2004, followed by Shine in 2005 and Bar 17 in 2006. ~
Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide
Written by Jesse Jarnow