Mick Turner

<a href="spotify:artist:1QUsHFoDqNsC0W9AlNyHWF">Dirty Three</a> guitarist Mick Turner began a solo career in 1997 with the release of Tren Phantasma, a collection of improvised four-track recordings featuring the contemplative guitar style he used with his group <a href="spotify:artist:1QUsHFoDqNsC0W9AlNyHWF">the Dirty Three</a>. The following year, Turner and his bandmate <a href="spotify:artist:2e5Czu1HGML44EmIuNsA4o">Jim White</a> played live as <a href="spotify:artist:4jR2COP71n37vZ0lo2yE4X">the Tren Brothers</a>, carrying the album's aesthetic into a concert setting with an arsenal of loop pedals and understated percussion. Several of these dates were opening spots for <a href="spotify:artist:6G7OerKc3eBO9sVkRNopFC">Cat Power</a>, with whom the duo collaborated on the 1998 album Moon Pix. Turner and <a href="spotify:artist:2e5Czu1HGML44EmIuNsA4o">White</a> also recorded a 7" for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Secretly+Canadian+Records%22">Secretly Canadian Records</a> that year, and followed it with 1999's Marlan Rosa, released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Drag+City%22">Drag City</a>. In summer 2002, Turner released the Seven Angels EP, a limited-edition set issued by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Three+Lobed+Records%22">Three Lobed Records</a>. Later that year, his third album Moth arrived. In 2005, an extremely limited CD-R live EP, entitled Don't Tell the Driver, was issued by Turner's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22King+Crab%22">King Crab</a> label. In 2007, a <a href="spotify:artist:4jR2COP71n37vZ0lo2yE4X">Tren Brothers</a> rarities collection, The Blue Trees, appeared. Between that year and 2012 he appeared on records by <a href="spotify:artist:0cX7rYkEvObc0g1bhcwIji">Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:76XsgVqbjHJXzJ0BY3Sr6w">Guy Blackman</a>, as well as on a split 7" between the <a href="spotify:artist:4jR2COP71n37vZ0lo2yE4X">Tren Brothers</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:4TaNAYZoHwI21YpxHApqMz">Bridezilla</a>. In 2013, a compilation of his earliest recordings with <a href="spotify:artist:2e5Czu1HGML44EmIuNsA4o">Jim White</a> in the band <a href="spotify:artist:1IPuJAwvWKWa8lL3m487AW">Venom P. Stinger</a> was released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Drag+City%22">Drag City</a>, followed by a brief reunion tour and the release of his next full-length solo effort, Don't Tell the Driver, in November. Though it bore the same title as the 2005 EP, they weren't related in any way. The full-length album had been composed and recorded intermittently between 2009 and 2012 at Big Moth studios in Australia. ~ Heather Phares & Thom Jurek, Rovi