Number Three Combo is a primarily acoustic trio that creates evocative musical soundscapes that often combines middle-eastern melodies and rhythms with rock, folk and blues compositions.  Ex-Black Sun Ensemble members, Eric Johnson (12 string acoustic guitar, vocals) and Joe E. Furno (flute) formed with trio in 2014 along with Cobracalia’s middle-eastern master percussionist Carl Hall (dumbek) in the hopes to reach new audiences who may prefer a subtler, more acoustic presentation.  The music, sometimes featuring lyrics, utilizes a mic’d 12 string acoustic guitar with effects that produces a unique shimmering sitar-like sound, punctuated by Furno’s electric flute, which is also electronically treated.  The result is acoustic music that is both quietly pastoral and, at times, heavily textual and futuristic.