Garage A Trois, a post rock/freak jazz entity comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, Texas-born punk rock vibraphone hero Mike Dillon and New Orleans funky drummer/beat scientist Stanton Moore, have announced five shows in Colorado this December. The run starts in Telluride, stops in Breckenridge, Ft. Collins and Boulder, and concludes in Denver. While in Boulder, the band plans to drop into Immersive Studios to record a limited edition 7-inch for release on Record Store Day in 2012.The Colorado tour is part of a year long surge behind Garage A Trois' latest critically lauded album Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil out now on The Royal Potato Family. Utne Reader wrote of the record: "there’s a head-clearing vigor to this music, as if the weirdos among us might be onto something after all," while Relix declared: "the album's title perfectly encapsulates the vibe of the band: the music is fun, energetic and hopeful, but there's a darkness to it that begs listeners to stay on their toes."Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil is the follow up to Garage A Trois' 2009 release, Power Patriot (the band's debut with Benevento replacing original member Charlie Hunter). In the words of Stanton Moore, "the band set out to capture the highly flammable, rock-driven, avant pop album we all knew we were capable of making." Recorded at Studio In The Country in Bogalusa, LA (where albums by The Neville Brothers, Stevie Wonder and The Wild Magnolias have been cut) with engineer/producer Randall Dunn (Cave Singers, Black Mountain, Sun City Girls), it's the finest representation yet of the band's sinewy, fourth-dimensional, polychromatic songwriting.Upcoming Colorado Tour Dates are:December 13 | The Llama | Telluride, CODecember 14 | Three 20 South | Breckenridge, CODecember 15 | Aggie Theater | Ft. Collins, CODecember 16 | Fox Theater | Boulder, CODecember 17 | Cervantes | Denver, CO