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Genre: Other
Location Burlington, Vermont, US
Profile Views: 19521
Last Login: 6/9/2010
Member Since 7/16/2007
Website www.innerfiredistrict.com
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.................. .. .. .. Inner Fire District was founded by accordionist/composer David Symons (also a founder of the influential Vermont band, Black Sea Quartet, and an original member of Berlin's The Painted Bird) and guitarist/accordionist/pianist Tim Lang (who has since left the group). One of Vermont's most sought-after bassists, Tyler Bolles, soon joined. In the fall of 2006, David found then 18 year-old clarinet virtuoso Zoe Christiansen playing clarinet on a bridge in Montpelier. IFD attempts to inhabit a morally ambiguous gray zone between arrangement and improvisation, despair and elation, savagery and sophistication, sobriety and inebriation, the gutter and the big lights. .... ACCOLADES: "[David Symons is] the hottest and most obsessively intense accordion player in the neighborhood" -Seven Days. .... "If Shostakovich, Hank Williams, and the Baal Shem Tov met in a bomb shelter stocked with a bottle of slivovitz and an accordion, with nothing to do but wait for the end of the world, it might sound ever so slightly like the Inner Fire District." -Hassan Nassrallah ...... Contact at david@innerfiredistrict.com .. .. ..
Members
.. .. .. David Symons - accordion and vocals .. Tyler Bolles - bass .. Zoe Christiansen - clarinet .. .. ..
Influences
Brave Old World, Guy Klusevsek, Astor Piazzolla, Naftule Brandwein, Kurt Weill, Tom Waits, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tin Hat Trio, Dan Kahn, Hasidic nigunim, David Krakauer, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, Black Sea Quartet, Marin Nasturica, Wallace Shawn, Noam Chomsky, Ishikawa Takaboku, Marc Awodey, Stephen Goldberg, Frank London, poverty, regret, love, angst, slivovitz. ......
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Letter to Seven Days Newspaper: VIVA LA RICH Nothing like a little class warfare to go with your accordion [Stuck in Vermont 68, May 7]. You featured a funny and obviously talented group of musicians. But I was struck by some of the language used by the group’s members regarding the “rich.” I’m guessing, since this is a target that is politically correct to attack, no one batted an eye, but I’m curious if similar language used about other groups would be tolerated by your fine newspaper. I think it’s important to remember that this type of blanket stereotyping is not helpful, regardless if it’s directed at gays, the rich, welfare moms, Mexicans, etc. I’d encourage the members of Inner Fire District to learn a little more about what “the rich” do for our community, including paying taxes that pay for their beloved fire department. Oh yeah, and advertise in Seven Days, too. Chris Palmetto BURLINGTON .. .. .. .. ..

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.. .. .. Inner Fire District was founded by accordionist/composer David Symons (also a founder of the influential Vermont band, Black Sea Quartet, and an original member of Berlin's The Painted Bird) and guitarist/accordionist/pianist Tim Lang (who has since left the group). One of Vermont's most sought-after bassists, Tyler Bolles, soon joined. In the fall of 2006, David found then 18 year-old clarinet virtuoso Zoe Christiansen playing clarinet on a bridge in Montpelier. IFD attempts to inhabit a morally ambiguous gray zone between arrangement and improvisation, despair and elation, savagery and sophistication, sobriety and inebriation, the gutter and the big lights.

ACCOLADES: "[David Symons is] the hottest and most obsessively intense accordion player in the neighborhood" -Seven Days.

"If Shostakovich, Hank Williams, and the Baal Shem Tov met in a bomb shelter stocked with a bottle of slivovitz and an accordion, with nothing to do but wait for the end of the world, it might sound ever so slightly like the Inner Fire District." -Hassan Nassrallah

Contact at david@innerfiredistrict.com .. .. .. ..

Member Since:

July 16, 2007

Members:

.. .. .. David Symons - accordion and vocals
Tyler Bolles - bass
Zoe Christiansen - clarinet .. .. ..

Influences:

Brave Old World, Guy Klusevsek, Astor Piazzolla, Naftule Brandwein, Kurt Weill, Tom Waits, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tin Hat Trio, Dan Kahn, Hasidic nigunim, David Krakauer, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, Black Sea Quartet, Marin Nasturica, Wallace Shawn, Noam Chomsky, Ishikawa Takaboku, Marc Awodey, Stephen Goldberg, Frank London, poverty, regret, love, angst, slivovitz. ..

Sounds Like:

Letter to Seven Days Newspaper: VIVA LA RICH Nothing like a little class warfare to go with your accordion [Stuck in Vermont 68, May 7]. You featured a funny and obviously talented group of musicians. But I was struck by some of the language used by the group’s members regarding the “rich.” I’m guessing, since this is a target that is politically correct to attack, no one batted an eye, but I’m curious if similar language used about other groups would be tolerated by your fine newspaper. I think it’s important to remember that this type of blanket stereotyping is not helpful, regardless if it’s directed at gays, the rich, welfare moms, Mexicans, etc. I’d encourage the members of Inner Fire District to learn a little more about what “the rich” do for our community, including paying taxes that pay for their beloved fire department. Oh yeah, and advertise in Seven Days, too. Chris Palmetto BURLINGTON