1195 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202

Silver Triplets of the Rio Hondo

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Silver Triplets of the Rio Hondo is a psychedelic Western outfit conceived by William Slater, songwriter & founding member of art-psych heavyweights Grails and current member of Black Mountain.  Its sound marries sequenced synthesizer/strings, noise collage, & drum programming to a set of barrel-chested crooners, lending the songs of the Triplets an eerie camp that could live as easily on a dilapidated cruise ship as inside a honky tonk bar.  Ghost ballads floating about a dystopian waypost.  Jim Reeves trying to claw his way out of the Tower of Song.  Extra-terrestrial highway jazz.  Sci-fi roadhouse music for dissociatives.  

The trio features the dreamy & toothsome embellishments of Haven Multz Matthews on skins and Christopher Cook wielding guitar leads that alternate between Bakersfield country & avant-noise in quick succession, & the samples dancing in and out of the periphery may leave an audience wondering how a sound at times so massive & strange can still feel somehow intimate.

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