1. Preston Lea "Trey" Spruance III was born on August 14,1969 and is an American composer, producer, and musician who co-founded the experimental rock band Mr Bungle.
13 Facts About Trey Spruance
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Trey Spruance is leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3.
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Originally a guitarist and trumpeter, in the early 90s Spruance began playing vintage electronic organs, analog synthesizers, saz, santur, electric sitar, tar, and various other string and percussion instruments.
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Trey Spruance's playing and composition style is influenced by many diverse genres of music, such as surf rock, Anatolian folk, death metal, film music, Afghan rebab music, ska, funk, space rock, jazz and Japanoise.
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Trey Spruance was a founding member of Mr Bungle, along with Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn.
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Trey Spruance has focused on his band Secret Chiefs 3 for the last 15 years, and its seven "satellite" groups first introduced on the 2004 album Book of Horizons.
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Trey Spruance has performed regularly with John Zorn and has arranged two releases of works from Zorn's Masada Songbooks for Secret Chiefs 3: "Xaphan" in 2007, and "Beriah".
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Trey Spruance contributed guitar and tubular bells to two albums by the drone metal band Asva, with whom he toured the US and Europe.
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Trey Spruance recorded with Patton and Faith No More on their 1995 album King for a Day.
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In 2016, Trey Spruance composed a three movement string quartet titled "Seraphita" for San Francisco's Kronos Quartet.
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Besides his own bands, Trey Spruance has worked as a producer for others.
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Trey Spruance produced the album Death After Life for Oakland, CA death metal group Impaled.
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Trey Spruance is the founder of Web of Mimicry, which has released albums from a variety of different bands, including Cleric, Fat32, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Brazzaville, Matt Chamberlain, Dengue Fever, and ASVA, amongst others.