Loading details…
Artist
Red Museum
12+ albums
post-hardcoreexperimentalProgressive rockProgressiveMath-rock
about
Red Museum started out over drinks. Ilia Yordanov and Jay Beaman were among the guests at a small party one Saturday night in September 2006 at Thomas Erak’s place when it was suggested that they, Ilia and Jay, play together. For the better part of a year Ilia had been writing material and looking for musicians--a drummer, above all--with which to start a project. Jay, in addition to playing with Reidar, had been interested in pursuing a new, different direction musically. When they met up that next week at Ilia’s house they began to work on music whose concept Ilia had initially conceived that summer, and that was to develop into Red Museum’s debut self-titled concept album. In the following months--with the addition of Ilia’s 16-year-old brother, Dimiter, on bass--they worked through several songs, finally realizing the material Ilia but a few months before only dreamed of hearing with a band while frequently jamming to get a better feel for one another’s styles and abilities via improv. In this way they cohered as a band. And it was in this way, too, that they prepared to record. Gordon Greenwood, who did The Fall of Troy’s Ghostship demo as well as The Hills Have Eyes's Demo, recorded the album in Ilia’s living room from mid-January on into February with a great deal of both skill and patience. Aya Sato did the artwork for the disc and, with Ilia, did the layout. By then--later February--Red Museum was ready to play shows, announcing the arrival of something new and sign
