Trey Spruance
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Preston Lea Spruance III |
| Born | August 14, 1969 |
| Genres | Avant-garde metal, experimental music, alternative metal, experimental rock, ska |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, various keyboards and synthesizer, baglama, rabab, dumbek, zither, bass guitar, pipa, trumpet, vocals |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Mimicry |
| Associated acts | Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Faxed Head, Faith No More, Three Doctors Band, John Zorn, Pop-O-Pies, Scourge, Asva |
Preston Lea "Trey" Spruance III (born August 14, 1969) is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle. He is also leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3. Originally a guitarist and trumpeter, Spruance later began playing vintage electronic organs, saz, santur, electric sitar, tar, pipa, and various other string and percussion instruments.
Spruance was a founding member of Mr. Bungle, along with Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn. He has focused on his band Secret Chiefs 3 for the last 15 years (though it began in 1996), expanding the role of the group into seven sub-groups on the 2004 album Book of Horizons. Though once secular, Spruance began exploring spiritual themes in Secret Chiefs 3 after joining the Eastern Orthodox Church. Spruance has composed, produced and released eight full-length albums with Secret Chiefs 3 to date, as well as numerous 7" inch recordings, and has arranged John Zorn's Masada music for Secret Chiefs 3 on two releases: Masada Book II "Xaphan" in 2007, and Masada Book III "Beriah" (forthcoming). Spruance has toured extensively as Secret Chiefs 3 band leader. Since 2007 they have performed over 500 shows in over 50 countries, having developed significant followings outside the USA in nearly every country of western and eastern Europe, Turkey, Israel, South America, Australia and Russia. Spruance regularly expands Secret Chiefs 3 into hybrid ensembles of varying sizes. In 2013 he scored his music for the 61-piece Traditional Russian Orchestra of Krasnoyarsk and performed with this orchestra in Kansk, Siberia, with Secret Chiefs 3 as the rhythm section. He has performed with John Zorn and works regularly in Secret Chiefs 3 with Eyvind Kang, Ches Smith and William Winant. He also contributed some guitar and tubular bells to the ASVA recordings Futurists Against the Ocean and What You Don't Know Is Frontier with whom he toured the US and Europe. He, notably also recorded with Patton for Faith No More on their 1995 album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime.
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