Andrew Boring is a trumpet player with straight-ahead jazz influences who uses electronic effects in his melodies and improvisations. He has been playing on the Atlanta scene for a few years with bands such as Lucky Stray and The Flying Reverends and has also recorded session work for local studios.
Paul Mercer is an Atlanta-based violinist and composer who has been playing for 25 years. As a member of the critically acclaimed neoclassical quintet, The Changelings, he has performed extensively around the country. He has also performed solo at various venues in Atlanta and New Orleans. His recent work includes the soundtrack to the short film Replacing Delphine and the upcoming feature film Psychopathia Sexualis. He has also finished recording an album of avant-garde compositions for small string ensembles called Ghosts.
Davis Petterson II is a percussionist conversant in free improvisation, funk, and rock, who combines acoustic and electronic drumming to create unique beats. He has played throughout the Southeast, coming to Atlanta in 1997 with the band Just Puppets. Davis currently plays with dp3 and The Ghosts Project
Matt Mansfield is an astounding bass player with a long-looking career ahead of him. He currently plays in local dub band Kingrat, and has been filling the role of "kick-ass bass" player with dp3 since Kareem Khalifa moved to Vermont. He is currently mixing an EP of dp3 dubs and deconstructions, to be released soon. His solo productions(including one finished dp3 mix) can be found on myspace under the name of Matt Gregg.
Regular Guests:
Zano is a local freestyle M.C. on the Atlanta scene who can be found improvising his lyrics in a variety of settings, venues, and musical styles. Zano is a frequent guest of dp3 and can be found on stage with us if he doesn't have another gig somewhere else.
Influences
Miles Davis (esp. Bitches' Brew era), King Crimson, John Zorn, Baba Allaudin Khan, Nels Cline, Ornette Coleman, MMW, Freddie Hubbard, Talking Heads, Galactic, Paul Motian, Jane's Addiction, William Parker, Gorecki, Yes, Bobby Previte, Rush, Bill Laswell, Squarepusher, Mr. Bungle, Masada, Tortoise, Jaime Ebersol, Scott Amendola, Sonny Sharock, Peter Brotzmann, Vandermark 5, J.S. Bach, Tim Berne, Charlie Hunter, Iron Maiden, Louis Armstrong, Elliot Sharp, Christy Doran, Living Colour, Howlin' Wolf, Primus, Jimi Hendrix, Shankar, David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp, Adrian Belew, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussein, Youssou N'Dour, Jaco Pastorius, Fela Kuti, Goblin, Ennio Morricone, Guiseppe Tartini, Niccolo Paganini, Laijko Felix, The Changelings, Leadbelly,Electronic Voice Phenomena, Andreas Guarneri, St. Theresa, David Tibet, Jah Wobble, Arvo Part, The Rachels, Sultan Khan, Nikhil Bannerjee, James Brown, Ustad Rafi Akbarzada, Curtis Mayfield passing trains, Maldorora, Sleepy Theory, Ole Bull, Pablo Sarasate, Nicolas Villuame
Sounds Like
Giusseppe Tartini in a 1970 GTO chasing a hallucinating Miles Davis in a flaming golf cart while a UFO flown by King Tubby hovers overhead showering the landscape with meaty bass deathrays and the spandex clad natives scatter while beating their bloody hands against the taught stretched skins of animals long extinct.
Sharon, who is almost a pharmicist, explains it like this:
"DP3 is a prescription abbreviation that stands for "dental procedure #3". It just means take 4 Cipros 1 hour before you go in for dental work. Don't ask what #1 and #2 are..."
From Atlanta's Creative Loafing Soundmenu:
Atlanta jazz ensemble dp3 wields a pastiche of spacey and chaotic horn blasts over funky rhythms to forge a noir, sci-fi soundtrack to the greatest Philip K. Dick stories you've never read. The moods of the music rise and fall as each song unfolds like tales from a post-apocalyptic "Hotel California," where each and every room tells stories of deceit and retribution.
-Chad Radford, Creative Loafing Soundmenu, 2/7/07
"...when I arrived it was the soundtrack of my own personal hell: jazz (courtesy of local act dp3, with each member taking several minutes for long solos)...I hid in the bar because I couldn't stomach the noodley sounds in main room."
Our new friend Somarosa writes in their MySpace blog:
"...if you get into some jazzy shit thats left of center, I invite you to check out DP3. I am a new fan and I hope you are too."
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