The Life Force Trio is an experimental Soul group that fuses space-rock and impressionistic 20th century classical music with funk grooves and sing along vocals. Celebrated for being genre benders, misplaced in any one category, The Life Force Trio have released two records in the last two years. 2005's Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio Love Is The Answer (Ninja Tune) and 2006's The Life Force Trio Living Room (Plug Research) are both very highly regarded projects that have garned the group and it's producer Carlos Nino much critical acclaim.

Pitchfork Review



THE LIFE FORCE TRIO, Jazz/experimental
The Life Force Trio is a soulful, vibrant, mostly-instrumental band led by Los Angeles-based producer Carlos Nino and featuring multi-instrumentalists Dexter Story, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Gaby Hernandez and Andres Renteria. Self-described as a "love-in" band, the Life Force Trio plays sets "like a raw living room version of Alice Coltrane, Weather Report and Pink Floyd."

Salon Review



When one hears music discussed in regards to "vibes" and "spirits," it's usually just a pretentious put-on; modern posers trying to resurrect a long-last studio magic. Unless, that is, you're talking about The Life Force Trio out of Los Angeles. The vibes and spirits at play on Living Room are very much the real thing: Sly's funk and energy, Sun Ra's spacey jazz genius, the manic passion of 'Trane (Alice and John), and most of all Nino's own coolly effervescent soul. In short: this is a Living Room decorated with generations of musical vibrancy.

The Life Force Trio was conceived and founded by Carlos Nino (Ammoncontact, Build An Ark, Hu Vibrational, The Sound of L.A....) when he started production on celebrated soul-jazz singer Dwight Trible's Love Is The Answer in Summer of 2004. Enlisting multi-instrumentalist/songwriter and fellow Aquarian Dexter Story to be his partner in the project, Nino set out to create a progressive new sound. Many have asked who the third member of the trio is and Nino's answer is always the same, "the third member is floating."

When Love is The Answer was finished, Nino and Story, together with friends and fellow musicians, started recording sketches for a new project. The writing process was quick and spontaneous. Within several weeks, Nino started fine-tuning what would become Living Room.

"Sly & The Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On and Fresh, Shuggie Otis' Inspiration Information, Sun Ra, John & Alice Coltrane and everything from French Impressionism to African High-Life and '60's Space Rock - to me, that's the vibration we were tuned to while making Living Room," Nino mentions. "We just go together and made music that was open and from the heart. We all wrote music and/or directed the flow of a jam session, creating a very collective exchange," Nino adds. The "all" that Nino refers to are multi-instrumentalists Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Andres Renteria and Gaby Hernandez, along with Nino's Ammoncontact partner Fabian Ammon and special guests Derf Reklaw, Dwight Trible and Jesse Sharps.

Recorded by Nino in his Echo Park living room, and mixed by Elvin "Nobody" Estela with Nino in Nobody's bedroom studio, Living Room in Nino's words, "is a raw, spiritual journey on an elevator to a higher realm, with no enclosure - there's no chance of falling...it's like the wind."

Street Date: August 22, 2006