Chris Burns, Nicolas Caloia, John Heward
Presence
CD: No Type (2003) IMNT 0308i
Radio No Type:
1 presence #1 [3m38s]
2 presence #2 [4m52s]
3 presence #3 [8m28s]
4 presence #4 [3m40s]
5 presence #5 [5m12s]
6 presence #6 [6m06s]
7 presence #7 [20m06s]
Individual copy of the album by Burns / Caloia / Heward trio, from the Montréal Free 4CD boxset.
Born in Montréal in 1966, Chris Burns grew up a couple of hundred yards away from runway #9 of the Dorval airport; establishing the notion that window rattling screams of a jumbo jet could be a lullaby. Aged 12, unable to afford an electric guitar, he was forced to build one out of an old Cheerios box and discarded human hair he found behind the local barbershop. This, clearly, did not work but it did strike up the sympathy of legendary guitar man Blind Idiot McGhee, with whom Burns took up a three year apprenticeship ending when McGhee passed on his Stratocaster to Burns on his death bed. Since then, Burns has been struggling to unlearn everything Blind Idiot taught him and has been creating and refining his own unique brand of guitar playing, a style he has labeled “brain damaged.” → Full bio
Nicolas Caloia was a student of Lisle Ellis and Fred Hopkins, like them he is interested in many different types of music. A long time member of Montréal’s avant-garde community, Nicolas Caloia has performed with local artists such as Malcolm Goldstein, Rainer Wiens, Sam Shalabi and Michel F Côté, as well as internationally renowned artists like Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Steve Lacy, Hassan Hakmoun and Tristan Honsinger, with whom he has a soon to be released recording. → Full bio
John Heward works in the fields of painting, sculpture and music. He has exhibited and made music in Canada, the USA, Europe, and China. He lives in Montréal. → Full bio
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