KEVIN CARNES, Boohaabian name: Professor Borris Karnaz, drums/sampler
KIRK PETERSON, Boohaabian name: The Redeemer, electric bass
DAVID BOYCE, Boohaabian name: Black Edgar Kenyatta, tenor/soprano saxophones, efx, synth, spoken words Keith Yansurak, Boohaabian name: The Kount, sound engineer/business liaison
Influences
Hendrix, Mad Professor, Miles Davis, The Coltranes (John and Alice), Bad Brains, Jean Michel Basquiat, Public Enemy, Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney, King Tubby, Sun Ra, Kittie, Yes, P-Funk, James Brown, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Marvin Gaye, Gospel Music, The Doors, Gil Scot Heron/Brian Jackson, Kraftwerk, Test Department, Einsterzende Neubauten, Busta Rhymes, Wu Tang Clan, De La Soul, Bennie Maupin, Wayne Shorter, Cecil Taylor,Max Roach, Weapon of Choice, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Bernard Herrmann, Tony Williams, Stanley Clarke, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Lightnin' Hopkins, Fela Kuti, Eric Dolphy, Thelonius Monk, Art Tatum, Woody Shaw, Ahmad Jamal,MeShell NdegeOcello,
Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, P.I.L, Siouxsie and the Banshees/The Creatures, Nina Simone, Sam Rivers, Andrew Hill, Lee Morgan, Bernie Worrell, The Stooges, MC5, Santana, Slave, Confunkshun, Crown Heights Affair, Prince, Muddy Waters, Ali Farka Toure, Cuba, Africa, Asia, India, South America, Otis Redding, Gato Barbieri, Hermeto Pascoal, DJ Krush, Acid Mother's Temple, Soft Machine, all afrocentric hip hop, Squarepusher, Metalheadz, LTJ BUkem, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Big Youth, U-Roy and the list goes on and on and on and on...........
Sounds Like
a star going supernova or a very hard swinging sax/bass/drum situation augmented and enhanced by electronics, avant garde and accessible,noisy and melodic, textural and ethereal, all things jazz and beyond.
Formed 1991 in San Francisco by Kevin Carnes, drums/sampler (Beatnigs, UAF), David Boyce, tenor/soprano saxophone, efx, synth, spoken word, and Kirk Peterson, electric bass.
The Fellinis play a soulful and aggressive style of post modern improvised/composed jazzical sound that is informed by dub, afro beat, abstract funk, drumnbass, hardcore/psych/prog rock and film soundtracks (the darker and more atmospheric the better)
The group has been profiled on NPR and BET in the US and on Radio Nova in France.
They've traveled to Spain to perform at the San Sebastian International Jazz Festival and to British Columbia for the du Maurier festival. Other festival appearances include the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Stern Grove Festival in SF, the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle and more.
Broun Fellinis have toured with Ben Harper and performed with many greats such as The Last Poets, Meshell Ndegeocello, Living Colour, Erykah Badu, the Roots, Mos Def, Gil Scott-Heron, Zakir Hussain, Bernie Worrell, Eric McFadden, George Clinton, Mystic Journeymen, Jimmy Smith, Prince Lasha, Les Claypool, Buckethead, Aceyalone, Mikah 9, Antibalas, Blackalicious, General Public, Ravi Coltrane, Eric McFadden, 311, and more.
“Prepare to be put under their amazing musical spell.” SF Weekly’03
“the Broun Fellinis glide easily and often from frenzied excursions to plaintive exotic melodies to hypnotic grooves.”Downbeat 10/99
“the true joy of the Broun Fellinis came from watching them perform. The Fellinis are an experience.” Musician‘95
“This band is one of the most interesting phenomena going on in music today.” Denver Post‘03
Broun Fellinis Discography:
December released 2008
Hey guys i'm listening to a CD of that show two weeks ago, it came out awesome after a little editin'. If your at the Faraway Bros. show this friday ill have copies for y'all. Otherwise I can mail them. Thanks for the awesome music, i'm fellin' it! (having paid homage via itunes)
Thanks for adding me to your list of friends. Allow me also to thank you for what I think is genuine artistry in your approach to mmusic. A higher regard, I could not have. And Kevin, you are, in fact, the funkiest drummer on the face of the planet!
My favorite band of the 90s. The only "acid jazz" band that matters. Your tape got me through some ruff & lonely times. Good to see you're still going strong.
Saturday morning walks up McAllister Street to get a cup o' coffee, the sounds of a saxophone bellowing through a corner window; always to put a smile on my face. :)
sometimes i wish we went to high school together. I coulda been the psychedelic-stoner mc instead of the crack mc. or i could've made a great hypeman. could of grunted and yelped after riffs. or i could have made my random videos as visuals.
Back in '94 a young rudeboy was trying to get the sounds in his head to come out through his saxophone. Somehow filter the dissonance of the frustration in his heart through the psychedelic wash of his mind set to the beat of his childhood. For the longest time he couldn’t figure out the math. Then he heard D. Boyce cryout and his heart unclenched and road along to the butterfly kisses K.Carnes put upon the cymbols. The young rudeboy was happy. He wouldn’t have to figure out the math. He could now release the pressure in his head by pushing play on this walkman (BF only had a tape at the time).
Kool Astro Black Is 1994 Brounsoun Records
Chocolate Surrealism 1993 Brounsoun Records
3 Laughs 1991 Brounsoun Records
