HOT FUR

Hot Fur biography
Hot Fur is an Israeli prog band influenced and in the vein of John Zorn's jazzy tunes, Steve Reich's compositions, and Frank Zappa's madness.
In 1998 Hot Fur was founded by Lior Frenkel (a composer and guitarist) and his mates from the Israeli Music School - Rimon. His partners at that time were Ben Hendler on electric bass, Nadav Bachar on electric guitar, Shaul Eshet on keyboards, Erez Koskas on drums, Oran Ben Avi on saxophones, Lior Ron on trumpet, Yael Kraus who was the vocalist and Noa Frenkel who performed as an alto singer (Lior sister). This lineup went on to record the self titled album which was based on entirely on Lior's compositions. From this moment on the band accumulated positive and enthusiastic reviews on their album and live shows. However, this did not help them on their search for a record label. They were denied from several labels but did not despair.
Their second self-produced album from 2000, Street Music is more upbeat, and had some free jazz elements to it. This album too was entirely composed by Frenkel. This album had Ofer Peled on tenor Sax and Gali Nechama on soprano Sax in addition to the other members. With this album too they did not succeed in getting signed to a label.
In 2004 the Israeli label Mio agreed to release Hot Fur's debut album. The Mio management approached Musea Records and got them to agree to take Hot Fur under their custody and to release their album. On June 1st 2005, their first self titled album was released by Musea in a new remixed and remastered edition.
Hot Fur are known for their theatrical, insane and bizarre shows that incorporate many outfits, regular characters and a show alongside the playing of the music.

==Assaf Vestin (avestin)==



Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
Approved by the RIO/Avant rock team.
This band plays a mixture of rock, jazz, minimalism and avantgarde music.




Discography:
Hot Fur, self produced - 1998, re-released on Musea Records - 2005
Street Music, self produced 2000