BURNING STAR CORE

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Burning Star Core biography
Launched in 1993, Burning Star Core is the pseudonym of Taiwanese-American musician and multimedia designer Chih-Fu Spencer Yeh. Originally based in Cincinnati, Ohio, since moving there at age five, Yeh is currently stationed in Brooklyn, New York. Having played since his youth, Yeh's primary instrument is the violin, which he augments with guitars, synthesizers, electronics and voice to craft an intrepidly trippy and challenging 21st-century krautrock, propelled by a distinct sense of humour and a vision to expand the possibilities of sound and its manipulation. Yeh runs the DroneDisco vanity label, which is only one of many venues through which Burning Star Core have issued over sixty recordings across cassette, CD-R and vinyl. Self-described as a "catch-all" project documenting his various creative whims, Yeh's varied approach encompasses ambient drone, musique concr�te, blown-out motorik rock excursions, fractured pop songs, electroacoustic noise ranging from the caustic to the blissful, and Kurt Schwitters-esque vocal improvisations.

A prolific collaborator, Yeh has worked and played live with a number of sound artists such as Thurston Moore, Weasel Walter, John Wiese, Kemialliset Yst�v�t, Carlos Giffoni, Aaron Dilloway and Tony Conrad, and cut records with psychedelic noise and rock bands Prurient, Yellow Swans, Hototogisu and Comets on Fire. While Yeh remains the centre of the project, the live and studio lineup swells and shrinks with collaborators, with Burning Star Core temporarily adopting a more "rock"-based orientation by the mid-2000s with the addition of Hair Police's Trevor Tremaine and Robert Beatty along with noise music maverick Mike Shiflet. Yeh's interest in creating mutant sounds began in his youth, witnessing a television performance by the Residents and later experiencing a complete paradigm shift discovering Nurse With Wound's Homotopy to Marie, Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex and Merzbow's Venereology. His wide-ranging tastes in both film and music - particularly prog - would inform the developing Burning Star Core aesthetic, with its sound also influenced by later Coil, Henry Flynt, and Takehisa Kosugi and the Taj Mahal Travellers.

Among his many releases, curious progheads are advised to investigate Yeh's most critically acclaimed work, from A Brighter Summer Day's ecstatic violin-and-electronics drone to the free jazz-meets-krautrock cacophony of 2007's Operator Dead... Post Abandoned, the Faustian sound collage of...Launched in 1993, Burning Star Core is the pseudonym of Taiwanese-American musician and multimedia designer Chih-Fu Spencer Yeh. Originally based in Cincinnati, Ohio, since moving there at age five, Yeh is currently stationed in Brooklyn, New York. Having played since his youth, Yeh's primary instrument is the violin, which he augments with guitars, synthesizers, electronics and voice to craft an intrepidly trippy and challenging 21st-century krautrock, propelled by a distinct sense of humour and a vision to expand the possibilities of sound and its manipulation. Yeh runs the DroneDisco vanity label, which is only one of many venues through which Burning Star Core have issued over sixty recordings across cassette, CD-R and vinyl. Self-described as a "catch-all" project documenting his various creative whims, Yeh's varied approach encompasses ambient drone, musique concr�te, blown-out motorik rock excursions, fractured pop songs, electroacoustic noise ranging from the caustic to the blissful, and Kurt Schwitters-esque vocal improvisations.

A prolific collaborator, Yeh has worked and played live with a number of sound artists such as Thurston Moore, Weasel Walter, John Wiese, Kemialliset Yst�v�t, Carlos Giffoni, Aaron Dilloway and Tony Conrad, and cut records with psychedelic noise and rock bands Prurient, Yellow Swans, Hototogisu and Comets on Fire. While Yeh remains the centre of the project, the live and studio lineup swells and shrinks with collaborators, with Burning Star Core temporarily adopting a more "rock"-based orientation by the mid-2000s with the addition of Hair Police's Trevor Tremaine and Robert Beatty along with noise music maverick Mike Shiflet. Yeh's interest in creating mutant sounds began in his youth, witnessing a television performance by the Residents and later experiencing a complete paradigm shift discovering Nurse With Wound's Homotopy to Marie, Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex and Merzbow's Venereology. His wide-ranging tastes in both film and music - particularly prog - would inform the developing Burning Star Core aesthetic, with its sound also influenced by later Coil, Henry Flynt, and Takehisa Kosugi and the Taj Mahal Travellers.

Among his many releases, curious progheads are advised to investigate Yeh's most critically acclaimed work, from A Brighter Summer Day's ecstatic violin-and-electronics drone to the free jazz-meets-krautrock cacophony of 2007's Operator Dead... Post Abandoned, the Faustian sound collage of 2010's Papercuts Theater and the colourful neo-kosmische musik of 2008's Challenger, and albums which collect a plethora of styles like The Very Heart of the World and Blood Lightning 2007. In the early 2010s, Yeh - worrying Burning Star Core lacked definition due to his habitual eclecticism - began to slowly perform and release music under his given name, choosing to focus more exclusively on violin and voice experiments and mostly jettisoning his rock inclinations. While Burning Star Core remains on hiatus, Yeh played a handful of live shows under the moniker in the mid-to-late-2010s, and issued a second retrospective compilation, Statue of Trust 2004-2007, in 2017.

Yeh's vast body of work is warmly recommended to fans of Ashtray Navigations, Volcano the Bear, Sunroof!, Takehisa Kosugi, Nurse With Wound, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Vibracathedral Orchestra and Tony Conrad (with and without Faust).

- Gordy, February 2023read more

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0.00 \| 0 ratings Hello? 1998	0.00 \| 0 ratings Green Legs II 1998	5.00 \| 1 ratings A Brighter Summer Day 2002	4.00 \| 1 ratings Inside the Shadow 2005	0.00 \| 0 ratings Comets on Fire / Burning Star Core 2005
0.00 \| 0 ratings The Very Heart of the World 2005	3.00 \| 1 ratings Three Sisters Who Share an Eye 2006	4.00 \| 1 ratings Everyday World of Bodies 2006	5.00 \| 1 ratings Blood Lightning 2007 2007	5.00 \| 1 ratings Operator Dead... Post Abandoned 2007
4.00 \| 1 ratings Challenger 2008	5.00 \| 1 ratings Ghosts of Niagara (collaboration with Prurient) 2008	3.00 \| 1 ratings Hototogisu + Burning Star Core (collaboration with Hototogisu) 2008

BURNING STAR CORE Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

0.00 \| 0 ratings Live in Oxford, OH 4.06.02 2002	3.00 \| 1 ratings Shapes of Autumn 2003 2003	4.00 \| 1 ratings Two in the KY & One in the OH 2005 2006	2.00 \| 1 ratings Voice & Electronics 2006	0.00 \| 0 ratings Live in St. Louis (collaboration with Lambsbread) 2006
4.00 \| 1 ratings Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core 2007	0.00 \| 0 ratings Live from New York 07-08 2009

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Mes Soldats Stupides '96 - '04
2005

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Statue of Trust 2004-2007
2017

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0.00 \| 0 ratings Drone Disco .98 1998	0.00 \| 0 ratings Tabletop Bass Guitar 1998	0.00 \| 0 ratings Datawaslost Split Single.02 (split with Coltrane Motion) 2002	0.00 \| 0 ratings Summer 2005 Tour CDR (collaboration with Comets on Fire) 2005	2.00 \| 1 ratings Ten Vocal Loops 2006
0.00 \| 0 ratings Sword Swallower's Opera 2008	4.00 \| 1 ratings Practice 4-19-08 2012	2.00 \| 1 ratings Samus and Kelly 2012

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0.00 \| 0 ratings Hello? 1998	0.00 \| 0 ratings Green Legs II 1998	5.00 \| 1 ratings A Brighter Summer Day 2002	4.00 \| 1 ratings Inside the Shadow 2005	0.00 \| 0 ratings Comets on Fire / Burning Star Core 2005
0.00 \| 0 ratings The Very Heart of the World 2005	3.00 \| 1 ratings Three Sisters Who Share an Eye 2006	4.00 \| 1 ratings Everyday World of Bodies 2006	5.00 \| 1 ratings Blood Lightning 2007 2007	5.00 \| 1 ratings Operator Dead... Post Abandoned 2007
4.00 \| 1 ratings Challenger 2008	5.00 \| 1 ratings Ghosts of Niagara (collaboration with Prurient) 2008	3.00 \| 1 ratings Hototogisu + Burning Star Core (collaboration with Hototogisu) 2008

0.00 \| 0 ratings Live in Oxford, OH 4.06.02 2002	3.00 \| 1 ratings Shapes of Autumn 2003 2003	4.00 \| 1 ratings Two in the KY & One in the OH 2005 2006	2.00 \| 1 ratings Voice & Electronics 2006	0.00 \| 0 ratings Live in St. Louis (collaboration with Lambsbread) 2006
4.00 \| 1 ratings Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core 2007	0.00 \| 0 ratings Live from New York 07-08 2009

0.00 \| 0 ratings Drone Disco .98 1998	0.00 \| 0 ratings Tabletop Bass Guitar 1998	0.00 \| 0 ratings Datawaslost Split Single.02 (split with Coltrane Motion) 2002	0.00 \| 0 ratings Summer 2005 Tour CDR (collaboration with Comets on Fire) 2005	2.00 \| 1 ratings Ten Vocal Loops 2006
0.00 \| 0 ratings Sword Swallower's Opera 2008	4.00 \| 1 ratings Practice 4-19-08 2012	2.00 \| 1 ratings Samus and Kelly 2012