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Luscious Jackson will record its third full-length album this spring as a whittled-down trio following the departure of keyboardist Vivian Trimble. |
Trimble announced on Monday she would leave the band, citing the pressures of touring and recording as her main motive. The New York native is currently working with Dusty Trails (which also features Josephine Wiggs) on two albums -- one instrumental, one vocal -- and collaborating with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion drummer Russell Simins.
"It's a totally amicable split," said Luscious Jackson vocalist/bassist Jill Cunniff. "Vivian originally joined the band purely for fun. I don't think she ever thought it would become a full-time job and put the rest of her life on hold."
Cunniff, drummer Kate Schellenbach and guitarist Gabby Glaser met on the New York post-punk scene of the early 1980s, but did not play together until 1991. Named for a 1960s basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers, Luscious Jackson recruited Trimble the same year and released their first EP, In Search of Manny, in 1992.
Despite Trimble's departure, the band is forging ahead with plans to record the follow-up to 1996's Fever In Fever Out. Cunniff and Glaser will likely pick up the keyboard slack and may ask Trimble to help with the album's studio arrangements, a spokesman for Nasty Little Man public relations told JAMTV.
"The band will proceed as a trio until necessity calls for an
addition," he said. (Anni Layne)