Tri-Cornered Tent Show
Urban, Electro-Acoustic Folk Improv. Free improvisation and orchestrated sound sculpture.

Almost everyday in the news there are stories about how a group of scientists after so many decades of painstaking research and work create a new drug or make new discoveries, but how many times does one read about a group of musicians that have done the same thing?

Philip Everett and Ray Schaeffer (later joined by Andre Custodio) called the Tri-Cornered Tent Show has done just that. It has taken them the last part of the last century of dedicated practice, research, and patience.

Around the turn of the century in 2000 they came out from their exile held up in a well-insulated dank little studio in the depths of Richmond California for almost three decades.

The musical journey began with initial tracks of their first three releases being recorded using the ancient anti-deluvian technology of electronics from the 70’s. Though methodical deciphering of the Lovcraft short story “The music of Eric Zann”, other related stories expanded upon Lovecraft’s Greater Cthulu Mythos they began recording free improvisation and orchestrated sound sculpture over those many years to create the first three projects now available on Edgetone Records. In 2003 their fourth creation Legion of Dagon features added members saxophonist Rent Romus and guest mulit-instrumentalist Jeff Hobbs based on the 28 sonnet by Lovecraft, The Fungi of Yuggoth. In 2005 they released The Foolkiller, an operatic improviational song cycle based loosely on Philip Everett's prose inspired by southern murder ballads and political commentary and satire featuring the voice work of Dina Emerson.