Music Style acoustic trip-hop w/ jungly downtempo house

Artist History Subnautic first appeared in San Francisco as the Neo Trio in 1995. Formed as a collaboration of several SF Bay Area's jazz musicians to explore the boundaries between the contemporary rhythms of trip-hop, jungle and drum-and-bass and the spontaneity and improvisation of jazz, the trio soon regrouped and renamed. Subnautic is the creation of pianist Jacob Elijah Aginsky and drummer Eric Garland. After being nominated for a WAMMIE for BEST NEW JAZZ GROUP in 10/00, keyboardist Jacob Elijah Aginsky said in an interview " . . . that's what's so exciting about Subnautic is that it's the music of the day while retaining the integrity and spirit of creative improvisation. We play to a packed house at Bruno's and it's like a concert, and then we pack up and go play the same music at the chill-out room of a rave and everyone's dancing. ." Drummer Eric Garland agreed. "What we're trying to do is create a musical space", he says. "It doesn't matter wether we're classified under acoustic trip-hop or live down-tempo . . if people come away from our shows with a sense of having travelled somewhere, then that's all we need." (SFWv1, 10/00)

Group Members Jacob Elijah Aginky: piano/keyboards, Eric Garland: drums, The discriminating ear might notice a different vibe from song to song; this is because Subnautic is joined at third bass by a rotating team of such talented bassists as Keith McArthur (Spearhead, The Coup), David Ewell (Vivendo De Pao), John Evans (Tori Amos), Devin Hoff (Graham Conah Group) and Todd Sickafoose (Noe Venerable).

Instruments keys/drums/bass

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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