Burning Star Core

Papercuts Theater

Label: No Quarter Country: USA

"Ah, the live album: often a tool for bands looking to wiggle out of contracts or perhaps, squeeze a few more pennies from a loyal fanbase. Rare is it a work of art. Inspired by these singular instances (Grayfolded, The Grateful Dead; Sonic Death, Sonic Youth; In Search of Spaces, 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, spanning years and continents. These formerly disparate relics of time and space now exist as one: a sonic document of the present."-No Quarter

Cincinnati native C. Spencer Yeh has been performing under the Burning Star Core moniker since 1993. A classically trained violinist, Yeh is the center of the amorphous free noise group whose past collaborators have included: Comets on Fire, Hotogisu, Chris Corsano and Thurston Moore. The recordings vary: from solo performances of sparse, ethereal drones to full-band, dense, psychadelic noise attacks. "C. Spencer Yeh has unleashed a mighty torrent of today's most curious, beautiful, humane, expansive, generous and spacious (in so many ways) electroacoustic psychedela."-Paper Thin Walls