Trimtab
Trimtab (formerly BMF) was started in Minneapolis, MN in 2001. The band is comprised of Jim Anton on bass, Tim Glenn on drums, and Jason Goessl on guitar. Mixed and sonic additions by 518. All compositions were inspired by the lectures, inventions, and architecture of R. Buckminster Fuller.
Trimtab is the brainchild of Jason Goessl, whose interest in the work of R. Buckminster Fuller was sparked during a conversation with an Evergreen student at a bar in Madison, WI in 1999. Goessl went on to educate himself on the Fuller philosophies and realized a link could be made between Fuller's architecture and musical form and meter. This link, paired with his study of Fuller's lectures and philosophies, gave birth to music that reaches a further sonic space not generally thought of in jazz, classical or pop harmony. Goessl takes the idea of the dymaxion house, car, map, and expresses it in musical form by melding classical, jazz, eastern, African, and rock concepts to a style all his own.
Trimtab is currently playing shows around Seattle and working on a new record at Parlour Trick Studios, due out in 2012. The new group features Phil Cali on bass and Brian Oppel on drums.
