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Starometska
9+ albums
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Starometska are an animated whirlwind of wires and shrieks. The songs abound with disconnected vignettes of schizophrenic glamour, snippets torn from Béla Bartók fused with the atonality of Glenn Branca, Starometska seek to put forth infuriated dirges and haunting elegiac spirituals of instrumental fervor. With a pared-down approach of only two guitars, Starometska is a musical kinship between brethren Matt Robison and Scott Bilby (ex-Dead Spy and Ginsu). Their song "Thiefcatcher" is a musical tribute to Hong Kong film actress Maggie Cheung. Matt Robison and Scott Bilby met at college in Columbia, South Carolina. They discovered that they had similar interests in art and music and eventually began to make music together with an initial foray know as Dead Spy[/artist that also included drummer Nate Leigh. During this project, Starometska formed out of the boredom that ensued when Nate wasn't around. They soon grew to become a well known entity around certain of Columbia's clubs. Starometska was an experimental guitar duo that was all instrumental. They drew from diverse interests such as folk/bluegrass, Eastern European classical music, as well as noisy experimental groups like [artist]Sonic Youth, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Glenn Branca's guitar orchestras. Unfortunately Starometska has gone the way of the Dodo bird, but hopefully, like the Phoenix of ancient lore, this bird will eventually arise from the ashes of it's own flaming death. Ha! User-contributed text is avail
