Music Style tris is a singer/songwriter, neither particularly cutting-edge nor archaic. the tracks on his cd are written in different styles, but they're all pop songs, more or less.

Musical Influences *good old boys* by randy newman, *nebraska* by bruce springsteen, *de la soul is dead*, *whitechocolatespaceegg* by liz phair, *the road to ensenada* by lyle lovett, *the infamous* by mobb deep -- records that explicitly address or describe a particular place. allen ravenstine from pere ubu had a huge influence on the way tris plays his synthesizers.

Similar Artists Momus, Hefner, Magnetic Fields, Loud Family, Game Theory

Artist History tris is the singer and songwriter for the favorite color, a mildly psychedelic rock group that released an album called *color out of space* in 1996. tris mc call has also put out another solo album, and a solo ep (cassette only, but available on mp3).

Group Members tris used a cast of thousands to record *if one of these bottles should happen to fall*. some principal contributors: d-scribe (the favorite color) played most of the electric guitar, dan madinabeitia (fixations) is the pianist, martin nienstedt and j. carstensen (denver zest, come on) played bass and drums, respectively, and regan solmo and rachel "pez" fishman added extra vox. tris was immensely privileged to have scott miller (game theory, the loud family) produce and mix fourteen of the seventeen tracks.

Instruments analog synthesizers and piano, acoustic and electric guitars, some drum programming, some live drums.

Albums *if one of these bottles should happen to fall - jersey songs by tris mc call* (2000), *straw man special (ep)* (1998), *color out of space (with the favorite color)* (1996), *the broken loom* (1996).

Location Union City, New Jersey - USA

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