And now I'm thoroughly expected to have my face melted off by Burning
Star Core. Never really heard much by these guys before but I thought
now is the time! This is an interesting concept for an album and not
one I've heard of before. It's (to quote the press releases) 'One long
piece, broken into 4 movements, culled from over 60 live performances,
spanning years & continents.' 'Lunacy' I hear you cry... You're
probably right. It's been on for a good quarter of an hour though now
and it sounds seamless. The music is a super powerful space rock jam
which is proper brain meltingly intense. It sounds like everything is
falling down around the band as they're playing. Shrill guitars and
free form drumming over intense feedback and psychedelia.... It's
making me want to get mega chonged and stop working. God damn these
space rock jams!
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Sound clips for Papercuts Theater by Burning Star Core: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. Double LP (vinyl), No Quarter, NOQ022LP, £14.49.
One long piece, broken into 4 movements, culled from over 60 live performances, spanning years & continents. These formerly disparate relics now exist as one: a sonic document of the present.
Rarely is the live album a work of art. Inspired by these singular instances (‘Grayfolded’ by The Grateful Dead; ‘Sonic Death’ by Sonic Youth; ‘In Search Of Spaces’ by Flying Saucer Attack), C. Spencer Yeh, the lone constant of the long-running Burning Star Core project, conceptualized ‘Papercuts Theater’: one long piece (broken into four movements) culled from over sixty live performances.
Other items by Burning Star Core
Amelia Burning Star Core 10" (vinyl), £9.29 Sorry - sold out.