Geoff Farina / Luther Gray / Nate McBride

Geoff Farina / Luther Gray / Nate McBride: Out Trios Volume Four: Almanac

by Troy Collins
August 19, 2006

Guitarist Geoff Farina, founder of the seminal 1990s indie rock band Karate, has been slowly but surely woodshedding his collegiate jazz chops. Karate was a far more progressive, improvisational ensemble than its fellow emo brethren, and Farina's augmented jazz chording foreshadowed greater things to come. His simultaneous stint in the folksy Secret Stars provided him with an opportunity to stretch dynamically in an acoustic setting. These two sound worlds have yielded a far different crop of music than his early ...