Stanton Moore HAS PROVEN many times over that he'll try just about anything. As the co-founder of the “steamroller funk” band GALACTIC, a recurring member of the tongue-in-cheek avant-funk ensemble known as GARAGE A TROIS, engineer of a rapidly accelerating solo career, and session player for artists as diverse as Irma Thomas, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Corrosion of Conformity and Street Sweeper (a forthcoming project with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Boots Riley of The Coup), this drum virtuoso from the bent-but-unbroken music mecca known as New Orleans maintains a rhythmic arsenal that embraces jazz, funk, R&B, pop, hard rock and so much more. EMPHASIS (ON PARENTHESIS), the followup to III, features this same threesome in a much different creative place. Will Bernard on guitar, Robert Walter on organs and Stanton behind the kit. It's clear from the eleven tracks that the trio has achieved a level of cohesion and confidence that no longer requires assistance from any other session guests.