Personnel

Bryan VanDivier, Howard Draper, Matthew Barnhart

Discography

	no. 57 Devices + Emblems (Works Progress, 2010) Available March 23, 2010.
	no. 56 “The Engineer” on Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 compilation (Matador Records, 2010) Purchase this from Matador Records.
	no. 43 “The Visible Hand” on 20 Bands/74.4 Minutes! compilation (Sounds Are Active, 2009) Download the compilation from Sounds Are Active.
	no. 30 Faster Now, Slower Later 5-song tour-only EP (2008)
	no. 7 no. 7 2-song 7″ + 4-song CD-R (Works Progress, 2007) Purchase this from Works Progress.
	no. 1 “Insomnia” on An Idiot To Not Appreciate Your Time: The Songs of Silkworm tribute CD (Genuflecting, 2006)

You can listen to our music on the Tre Orsi MySpace page.

Information

Tre Orsi is a trio from Denton, Texas that plays tense, dynamic rock music. “Tre Orsi” is also Italian for “I prefer the grass to the concrete”.

The band has toured with Magnolia Electric Company, The New Year, Minus Story, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and Nina Nastasia. To date they have released the “no. 7″ single and the “Faster Now, Slower Later” tour-only EP, and have appeared on the “Casual Victim Pile” compilation (Matador Records).

Their debut full-length LP, “Devices + Emblems”, produced by Bubba Kadane of The New Year and Bedhead, will be released in March 2010.

Related Stuff

Bryan is a member of South San Gabriel. He used to play in the bands Wiring Prank and History At Our Disposal.

Howard used to play in Shearwater, Okkervil River, and Little Grizzly.

Matt is a live sound and recording engineer who works/has worked for A.C. Newman, Shearwater, The New Year, St. Vincent, The Baptist Generals, John Vanderslice, and Jandek, among others. He used to play in Little Grizzly.

Press

“. . . if their amazingly solid set is any indication of things to come the band will be one to watch in 2009. . . Each song slowly built, with tension-filled undertones and heavy layers of guitar and big bass lines, before exploding outward in waves of blistering sound” – Popmatters

“They are straight to the point and electric, a pure adrenaline rush fuelled by efficiency. Guitars may be played sideways but the band never fails to take us from one point to another in the most efficient way : not thinking about it and giving it all.” – Millefeuille (France)

“Denton’s trio of impressive résumés and finely honed talents has a little gem in no. 7. . . It’s a more subdued track to start, but “Faulkner” is a sleeper-builder that once again exercises this insane restraint as some sort of sordid tease before all-out unleashing into a virtual cold-cock of a finale. It is, I think, the musical equivalent of watching the prosecutor pull out damning DNA evidence at the last second of a trial.” – Dallas Observer

“I could listen to Tre Orsi’s “The Engineer” all day; it’s safely in the Sonic Youth/Unwound school of triumphant, open-chorded noise rock, to the perfect, head-nodding level of abstraction. Regionalism dictates that a band like this should exist, and I’d like to hear more by them.” – Dusted (review of Casual Victim Pile compilation)

Contact

Booking and general info: bears@treorsi.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/treorsi
MySpace: myspace.com/treorsi
Twitter: twitter.com/treorsi

Other photos

Photo by Tre Orsi.

Photo by Howard Draper.


Photo by Tre Orsi.