Burial
Burial , actually William Emmanuel Bevan, is a British dubstep musician. His music includes elements from Dubstep, Two Step , Ambient and House . As a person, the artist remained anonymous until August 2008, biographical data are hardly known.
music
His self-titled debut album, released in 2006, received mostly above-average reviews. British magazine The Wire voted it album of the year , and Mixmag voted it the fifth best album of 2006. In September 2007, the Hyperdub label announced the release of the second album. Untrue was released on November 5, 2007. The second album was also consistently received positively. On his Myspace blog, the artist denied the rumor that was circulating on the internet that a Burial album would appear in the DJ Kicks series in 2008 .
Burial has not produced any classic albums since Untrue. Instead, he released EPs that are characterized by a few, usually two or three songs with a long running time of around 10 minutes.
Burial claims that he produces almost all of his pieces with the SoundForge audio editor . He wanted to avoid the use of trackers and sequencers .
identity
Although both albums were received very positively, Burial remained anonymous until August 2008. In a previous interview he said that "only five people know I make tunes". In February 2008, The Independent reported that Burial was an alumnus of London's Elliott School named William Bevan.
On July 22, 2008, The Guardian reported that Burial was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize . In the wake of the related reporting, Burial confirmed the information provided by the Independent about himself. He posted a picture of himself on his MySpace page on August 5, 2008. In a blog post, Burial stated that he was "a reserved person and ... just wants to make a few songs, nothing more". The above award was won by the British alternative rock band Elbow .
Since the release of his first album, the myths about Burial's identity have grown up. At the beginning it was speculated that Richard David James (aka Aphex Twin) was hiding behind Burial . Later, rumors kept surfacing that Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet was Burial. In June 2013, the website Equalizer posted an article in which a Facebook screenshot from Four Tet and a Twitter message from Caribou were supposed to verify this statement. However, the named page is a satirical page and the images posted cannot be tracked. Kieran Hebden responded immediately via Twitter and refuted the rumor: “I have never said ever that I am Burial anywhere. You should all show a bit more respect for Will Bevan who is Burial. One of the greatest musicians / producers of our time. " The rumors were finally ended when William Bevan published his own statement about his EP Rival Dealer including an official photo of himself in early 2014.
After the appearance of an anonymous DJ on October 15, 2015 at the Polish Unsound Festival with well-known tracks from Burial and other unreleased songs that are stylistically reminiscent of the artist's handwriting, the rumor quickly arose that Bevan could perform live there for the first time be. Hyperdub Records denied this, stating that "Burial has never performed live or as a DJ, has not been to Unsound Festival and has no plans to perform anywhere in the future."
Discography
Albums
EPs & Singles
- 2005: South London Boroughs (Hyperdub)
- 2006: Distant Lights (Hyperdub)
- 2007: Ghost Hardware (Hyperdub)
- 2009: Moth / Wolf Cub (with Four Tet , Text Records)
- 2011: Street Halo (Hyperdub)
- 2011: Ego / Mirror (with Four Tet and Thom Yorke , Text Records)
- 2011: Four Walls / Paradise Circus (with Massive Attack , Inhale Gold)
- 2012: Kindred (Hyperdub)
- 2012: Truant / Rough Sleeper (Hyperdub)
- 2012: Nova (with Four Tet , Text Records)
- 2013: Rival Dealer (Hyperdub)
- 2015: Temple Sleeper (Keysound Recordings)
- 2016: Young Death / Nightmarket (Hyperdub)
- 2017: Subtemple (Hyperdub)
- 2017: Rodent (Hyperdub)
- 2017: Pre Dawn / Indoors (Nonplus Records)
- 2019: Claustro / State Forest (Hyperdub)
Mixes & Compilations
- 2010: Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs # 1 (with code9 )
- 2018: Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs # 2 (with code9 )
- 2018: Fabriclive 100 (with Kode9 , Fabric)
- 2019: Tunes 2011 to 2019 (Hyperdub)
Songs for compilations or albums
- 2007: Unite (on Box of Dubstep , Soul Jazz Records)
- 2009: Fostercare (on 5: Five Years of Hyperdub , Hyperdub)
- 2010: Night Air (co-production for Jamie Woon , Candent Songs)
- 2010: Vial (with Breakage , on Foundation , Digital Soundboy Recording Co)
- 2010: Prophecy (with El-B , on Nu Levels , Ghost Records / Thriller Funk)
- 2012: High Road (with Dusk & Blackdown , on High Road , Keysound)
- 2014: Lambeth (on Hyperdub 10.4 , Hyperdub)
Remixes
- 2006: Blackdown - Crackle Blues (Keysound Recordings)
- 2007: Jamie Woon - Wayfaring Stranger (Live Recordings)
- 2007: Bloc Party - Where Is Home? (Wichita Recordings)
- 2007: Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night ( XL )
- 2010: Commix - Be True ( Metalheadz )
- 2017: Goldie - Inner City Life
- 2017: Mønic - Deep Summer (Osiris)
Unpublished songs
A number of unreleased songs have been included in various mix sets. So far they had mostly appeared in episodes of Mary Anne Hobbs' "Experimental Show" and Benji B's "Deviation Show" on BBC Radio 1. Other songs were lost due to data loss on Burial's computer.
- 2005: Brutal Deluxe (later Speedball2?), YearOne LP , Sarcophagus
- 2006: U Hurt Me (version) , Versus , Gaslight , Rain
- 2007: Feral Witchchild , Archeron , Stairwell , Afterglow , Sinkheart , Speed Ball2 , Cold Planet , Stay
- 2008: True Love VIP
- 2009: Lambeth (published in 2014), Untitled 2
- 2010: Deity (with Goldie )
- 2011: Untitled (with dBridge & Instra: mental)
- 2012: Buried / Untitled 4 (with Flying Lotus )
- 2013: Untitled (with Four Tet )
- 2018: Second Spell (with Charles Webster)
Used samples from films
Burial integrates samples from films into many of his songs. Among other things, he used the following samples:
- Ghost Hardware (Ghost Hardware EP, # 1): "He looked inside me" ( The girl with a pearl earring by Peter Webber , 2003)
- Gutted (Burial, # 8): "Me and him we're from different ancient tribes ......" ( Ghost Dog by Jim Jarmusch , 1999)
- In McDonald's (Untrue, # 7): "You look different." ( Bullet Boy by Saul Dibb , 2004)
- Kode9 Mashup of Untrue / Unreleased: "It is possible for a kid who believes in his dreams ..." (Forest Whitaker's speech for the 2007 Oscar win)
- Kode9 Mashup of Untrue: "Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid, I'm hollow ..." ( Sylvia von Christine Jeffs , 2003)
- Loner (Kindred EP, # 2): "There is something out there" ( Flatliners by Joel Schumacher , 1990)
- Shell Of Light (Untrue, # 9): "Hug!" ( Bullet Boy by Saul Dibb , 2004)
- Shutta (Ghost Hardware EP, # 2): "See ya!" ( Bullet Boy by Saul Dibb , 2004)
- Untitled (Burial, # 1): "God even knows when a single hair moves on your head ..." ( 21 grams by Alejandro González Iñárritu , 2003)
- Untitled (Untrue, # 1): "I'll show you light now. It burns forever. "( Inland Empire by David Lynch , 2006)
- Untitled 2 (Burial, # 13): "I woke up and I went into the bathroom ..." ( The Mothman Prophecies , 2002)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BURIAL - UNTRUE , blog entry by Hyperdub Records in November 2007
- ^ Dan Hancox: Only five people know I make tunes . In: The Guardian , October 26, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
- ^ The real school of rock , The Independent , February 11, 2008
- ^ Mercury Prize Nominations , The Guardian , July 22, 2008
- ↑ Four Tet wants you to know he's not Burial, now f * ck off , inthemix.com, June 21, 2013
- ^ The strange case of Burial, Four Tet and the identity conspiracy , The Guardian, June 20, 2013
- ↑ Burial gets a face at De: Bug , accessed on January 31, 2014
- ↑ Burial Did Not Play His First Live Set Last Night, Kode9 Confirms. TheFader.com, October 16, 2015
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ BBC – Radio 1: Mary Anne Hobbs, track listing April 4, 2006
- ^ Blackdown: Keysound Radio: 4Bristol mix , April 17, 2006
- ^ BBC – Radio 1: Mary Anne Hobbs, track listing July 17, 2007
- ↑ Blackdown: Dub War and Rinse, January 27, 2008 ( Memento of May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Burial: Unedited Transcript , The Wire , December 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burial |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bevan, William Emmanuel (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British dubstep musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |