Burnt Project 1
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Burnt Project 1 is a Canadian
First Nations
band from Winnipeg
, Manitoba
. An eleven-member musical collective
, the band incorporates elements of rock music
, blues, jazz
, funk
and traditional First Nations music into its style. African, Middle Eastern and Latin beats are also included in their songs, as well as a big band
sound from the horn section. Established in 2001, David Boulanger delivers pure energy infused music of the soul to the stage with his sound and performance.
, which included more than eleven musicians - one of which who played the sitar. In 2006, they released their second album, Hometown, which won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year
. In June 2008, the band played a special concert at the Indian Residential School Museum of Canada, which was formerly a residential school itself. The Nanaandawe’iti Nagamonan: Healing Songs concert was performed and recorded at the Long Plains First Nation Reserve, located at Portage la Prairie in Manitoba. CBC
commissioned David Boulanger to write compose a song dedicated to residential school survivors. His mother, Cathy Boulanger, and friend Duncan Mercredi were both survivors and participated in the song's composition. In the meantime, the band has played various gig
s in Manitoba.
Burnt Project 1 is influenced by such bands as Queens of the Stoneage, Red Hot Chili Peppers
, Dave Matthews
and such musicians as Jimi Hendrix
and Bob Marley
.
(Acoustic Guitar
/ Vocals)
Anthony Giancola (Drums / Percussion)
Lloyd Peterson (Bass
/ Electric Guitar
)
Dale Brown
(Fiddle
/ Effects)
Marie-Josee Dandeneau (Upright / Bass
)
Lesley Boulanger (DJ / Turntables
)
Marc Baureiss (Electric guitar
)
Peter Baureiss (Persussion)
David Cramer (Harmonica
)
Atik Mason (Bass)
Neewa Mason (Keyboard
/ Vocals)
1. Intertribal
2. Deadmen
3. Message
4. Blue skies 1
5. Blues skies 2
6. Anyway
7. The way
8. Chiefs
9. Broken bones
10. Make sense
11. Wanna be an angel
12. Monkeys
13. Crazy girl
14. Rebel groove
1. Tutte Insieme
2. Driving
3. Borderline
4. Lead ME Home
5. Finest Line
6. Forever
7. The Suicide
8. In Due Time
9. In Due Time II
10. World Of Living Mess
11. Prostitute
12. Devil
13. Domnedest of Stars
14. Ode To Meanies
Instrumentation: Dave Boulanger – Acoustic Guitar/Vocals, Marc Baureiss – Lead Guitar, Atik Mason – Bass Guitar/Alto Saxophone, Dave Schmidt - Tenor Saxophone, Anthony Giancola – Kit/all percussion, Newa Mason – Keys/Back-up Vocals, David Cramer - Harmonica
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
First Nations
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
band from Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
. An eleven-member musical collective
Musical collective
Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared. Such entities have transitioned from the traditional hierarchical configuration that features either a frontman , or a plurality of band members in tension for...
, the band incorporates elements of rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, blues, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
and traditional First Nations music into its style. African, Middle Eastern and Latin beats are also included in their songs, as well as a big band
Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
sound from the horn section. Established in 2001, David Boulanger delivers pure energy infused music of the soul to the stage with his sound and performance.
History and Influences
Burnt Project 1 was formed by David Boulanger in 2001, who has been extremely open in including everyone and everything in his music. In 2003, they released their first album, The AvenueThe Avenue
The Avenue is a Rugby Union stadium at Sunbury-on-Thames that has belonged to the English club London Irish since 1931 when the team purchased eleven acres to establish a club there. While the team moved to Madjeski Stadium in 1999, the stadium survived the team's 2009 proposed redevelopment plan,...
, which included more than eleven musicians - one of which who played the sitar. In 2006, they released their second album, Hometown, which won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year
Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year
The Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, formerly known as Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, is an annual award presented by Canada's Juno Awards for the best album by a Aboriginal peoples in Canada....
. In June 2008, the band played a special concert at the Indian Residential School Museum of Canada, which was formerly a residential school itself. The Nanaandawe’iti Nagamonan: Healing Songs concert was performed and recorded at the Long Plains First Nation Reserve, located at Portage la Prairie in Manitoba. CBC
CBC Radio
CBC Radio generally refers to the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.-English:CBC Radio operates three English language...
commissioned David Boulanger to write compose a song dedicated to residential school survivors. His mother, Cathy Boulanger, and friend Duncan Mercredi were both survivors and participated in the song's composition. In the meantime, the band has played various gig
Gig (musical performance)
Gig is slang for a musical engagement in which musicians are hired. Originally coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians, the term, short for the word "engagement", now refers to any aspect of performing such as assisting with performance and attending musical performance...
s in Manitoba.
Burnt Project 1 is influenced by such bands as Queens of the Stoneage, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
, Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
David John "Dave" Matthews is a South African–born American musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band...
and such musicians as Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
and Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
.
Members
David BoulangerDavid Boulanger
David Boulanger is a French race walker.-Achievements:-References:...
(Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
/ Vocals)
Anthony Giancola (Drums / Percussion)
Lloyd Peterson (Bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
/ Electric Guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
)
Dale Brown
Dale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
(Fiddle
Fiddle
The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
/ Effects)
Marie-Josee Dandeneau (Upright / Bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
)
Lesley Boulanger (DJ / Turntables
Phonograph
The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...
)
Marc Baureiss (Electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
)
Peter Baureiss (Persussion)
David Cramer (Harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
)
Atik Mason (Bass)
Neewa Mason (Keyboard
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
/ Vocals)
Discography
- The AvenueThe AvenueThe Avenue is a Rugby Union stadium at Sunbury-on-Thames that has belonged to the English club London Irish since 1931 when the team purchased eleven acres to establish a club there. While the team moved to Madjeski Stadium in 1999, the stadium survived the team's 2009 proposed redevelopment plan,...
1 May 2003 (Sunshine RecordsSunshine RecordsSunshine Records was a small California based record label of the early 1920s, producing 6 double-sided gramophone records of early jazz and blues....
)
1. Intertribal
2. Deadmen
3. Message
4. Blue skies 1
5. Blues skies 2
6. Anyway
7. The way
8. Chiefs
9. Broken bones
10. Make sense
11. Wanna be an angel
12. Monkeys
13. Crazy girl
14. Rebel groove
- Hometown 2006 (Sunshine RecordsSunshine RecordsSunshine Records was a small California based record label of the early 1920s, producing 6 double-sided gramophone records of early jazz and blues....
)
1. Tutte Insieme
2. Driving
3. Borderline
4. Lead ME Home
5. Finest Line
6. Forever
7. The Suicide
8. In Due Time
9. In Due Time II
10. World Of Living Mess
11. Prostitute
12. Devil
13. Domnedest of Stars
14. Ode To Meanies
Instrumentation: Dave Boulanger – Acoustic Guitar/Vocals, Marc Baureiss – Lead Guitar, Atik Mason – Bass Guitar/Alto Saxophone, Dave Schmidt - Tenor Saxophone, Anthony Giancola – Kit/all percussion, Newa Mason – Keys/Back-up Vocals, David Cramer - Harmonica