Trin Tran

Trin Tran, the one-man music group task of Steve Coombs, came into being following the dissolution of Coombs’ mid-’90s group, Xerobot, an area staple from the small-town picture within their hometown of Madison, Wisconsin that packed up for SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1999 and split up shortly thereafter. Coombs, who was simply drumming for the music group, returned house to Madison, motivated to create music however, not wanting to collaborate. Located in part with an emphatic perception in live, computer-free functionality, Coombs began the all-live, no-overdubs task in 2001, performing and playing electric guitar, drums, and keyboards concurrently, training a tough post-punk audio owing very much to Devo, the Fall, Klaus Nomi, as well as the even more explosive rock affects that led Xerobot. Coombs done Trin Tran in his limited free time, plenty of his times being focused on work and an evergrowing family members, but he gradually constructed an archive of basement-recorded materials while playing periodic local shows. Documented output existed mainly by means of home-burned CD-Rs and a 7″ or two before discharge of 2007’s larger-scale full-length Increases a Rose. Sometime in the first 2010s, popular garage area rock and roll icon Ty Segall uncovered Trin Tran and became an enormous fan, going as far as to reissue old recordings on his Move Town spinoff imprint God? by means of 2012’s Dark Radar full-length. This is accompanied by an EP of fresh materials in 2014 entitled Significantly Reaches, this time around released on Castle Encounter Information, the label of another mentioned Bay Area garage area rocker, Thee Oh Views’ John Dwyer. Trin Tran performed even more shows to get these releases, growing through the one-man music group format to a full-on trio, including Coombs’ boy on guitar.