Current members:
Andras Fekete - prepared guitars, loops, damage
Pete Gamble - guitars
Ken Friedman - drums
Past members, honored guests :
Joshua Starmer - cello, percussion
No synths or pre-recorded loops; all sounds created live.
Special thanks: photography - George Mason, Dennis Hermanson, Matthew Fekete, Betsy Harris (aka Temples of Grey) artwork - Dennis Hermanson inspiration - the NC music scene, especially Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro & Ashville -- an insanely great place for music right now...
Etkilendikleri
Television, early Pink Floyd, Pere Ubu, "Red" era King Crimson, Sonny Sharrock, Mark Ribot, Sonic Youth, Eugene Chadbourne, Glenn Branca, John Cage, Luciano Berio, Jeff Beck, The Fall, Mission Of Burma, Gang Of Four, Captain Beefheart, Santeri Ojala, Brian Eno, Mad Sheer Khan, Todd Rundgren, Lud, Clang Quartet, Amps Do Furnish A Room
Neye Benziyor?
Television meets Pink Floyd's "Meddle" meets King Crimson's "A Larks Tongue In Aspic"
"...With its textural, intertwining improvisations for cello and Fender guitars, Boat Burning currently creates some of the Triangle's most interesting experimental sounds... Guitars flicker by one another, melodies emerging from sheets of noise and tessellating amid drums that drive or shuffle. Imagine Ash Ra Tempel palling around with Rhys Chatham's original Guitar Trio accomplices, and you get the idea. Just don't get used to the sound. Every time the band gets stable, they work to damage what they've done. 'The thing to avoid is anyone getting into their comfort zone,' says Fekete. 'So we have a dictate in the band: If anyone feels like we're doing the same thing, tear it up. Explode it.' "
-- Grayson Currin, The Independent Weekly 1/28/2009
"...Boat Burning is putting out some of the best (and most emotional) experimental guitar fireworks out there these days..."
-- revRecluse, Radio Enigma 1/29/2009
Hakkımızda Boat Burning Sun 11/29 10p FUSE Chapel Hill
Boat Burning is an experiment in live music composition using amplified guitars and chance.
Each performance is unique, as there are no predefined pieces: all compositions are created live.
Formed by Fekete and Gamble after a year-long study of Television's art-punk masterpiece "Marquee Moon", Boat Burning takes the format of dual improvising guitars and injects into it a steady stream of non-traditional tonal, textural, rhythmic and chance elements. The idea is to prolong as much as possible the moment where the creative process turns chaos into order by continuously and deliberately thwarting its culmination. The result is an extended live exploration into the often tenuous line separating chaotic and musical forms....
Boat Burning sprang from ideas bandied about in Amps Do Furnish A Room, a music collective / incubator based in Chapel Hill NC.
-Looking forward to it, Andy! (UNC plays basketball tonight, so I may stay here watching the first few minutes of the game with my sweetie before heading out.)
Thank you for the request and the comment. Yes, if I have a chance to visit Norh California, I will contact you. I am very much interested in collaborating with you!
Boat Burning! Thanks for being a friend. Please take the time to check out the Studio's bands on our playlist. Use the links to check out the band's pages. Do what you you can for your local scene. You are the people that make the music scene happen! Tell me what you think!
thanks so much! its very flattering. it was amazing to hear you guys live, you're doing something truly unique in this scene. :) your appreciation is highly regarded by us. so yes, anytime something comes up, i do think we'll be playing together again. cheers! zach
Looking forward to gigging with you guys as either/both Ghost Cats of the South and/or Here There Be Tygers this summer! Keep in touch and let us know how things develop!
