Terry Burrows

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Terrence Ashley Burrows (born January 18 1963)[1] is an English multi-instrumental musician and author based in London. Best known as a performer under the pseudonym Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of computer manuals and music self-study guides including KISS Guide to Playing Guitar (Dorling Kindersley), Total Guitar Tutor (Barnes and Noble), and Play Electric Guitar (St Martin's Press). His books have been published in fourteen different countries and translated into six different languages.[2] As a writer, his pseudonyms include Terence Ashley, Harrison Franklin, Hans-Joachim Vollmer and Yukio Yung.[3]

He studied piano from the age of 5 and guitar from the age of 12. He made his first recordings at the age of 14 and has since had over 40 commercial releases under a variety of pseudonyms. On much of his work, he plays all the instruments in his own studio. His most successful project has been as Yukio Yung in the band The Chrysanthemums (later Chrys&themums). The Chrysanthemums were described by the US alt.music magazine Option as "England's best-kept secret" in 1989.[4]

Burrows was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and started studying classical piano at the age of 5. When he was 12 he started to teach himself guitar, and as a teenager he took up bass, drums, and saxophone. The anti-establishment attitudes of punk subculture appealed to him but his musical influences included Syd Barrett, the Kinks, the Who, XTC, the Television Personalities, and the Canterbury progressive music scene. In his early twenties, Burrows started his own indie record label, Hamster Records, releasing albums by his first band, the Jung Analysts, and other non-commercial acts. In 1986 Burrows met Alan Jenkins, leader of The Deep Freeze Mice, and together they formed The Chrysanthemums, with Burrows as lead singer and keyboard player until 1991. Burrows chose the band name and his new stage name of Yukio Yung because of his love of Japanese culture. The band released three albums and four EPs.[5]

When the Chrysanthemums broke up, Burrows released his first solo album, Tree-Climbing Goats, in 1992 as Yukio Yung. In 1993 he released a vinyl LP, Art Pop Stupidity, and a CD, A Brainless Deconstruction of the Popular Song. Over the next few years he released a single and four EPs. In 1996, Burrows rejoined with his ex-Chrysanthemums bandmate Martin Howells to form a new version of that group, renamed with the visual pun Chrys&themums to distinguish it from the original lineup.[6]

Musically, Burrows was uncharacteristically quiet between 1998 and 2004 - a combination of ill health and an increasingly demanding publishing schedule. [7] By 2003, he'd had more than 50 titles published, and was recognised as one of the world's biggest-selling authors of music tuition titles, with sales of over 2 million books in the US alone. [8] During this period he also embarked on an additional career as an occasional university lecturer.

In 2004, Burrows emerged again with a typically colorful selection of music projects, the most significant of which was the resumption of his collaboration with US home-recording pioneer R. Stevie Moore. The resulting album, compiled by Burrows on an Apple Macintosh computer, was released as Yung & Moore Versus The Whole Goddam Stinkin World. The sleeve amusingly depicts the duo as cartoon superheroes about to demolish the planet - a visual metaphor, perhaps, for the antipathy the world at large has shown their music over the years. [9]

2006 saw Burrows returning to the musical abstraction of his earlier career with Tonesucker, a guitar-based doom/drone project that recalls Seattle, Washington's Earth, [10] as well as performing on theremin and VCS3 at Britain's prestigious Aldeburgh Festival. [11]

[edit] Selected Discography

  • Jung Analysts:
    • A Leading Surgeon Speaks (LP, 1984)
    • The Wishing Balloons (LP, 1984)
    • Sprockendidootch (LP, 1985)
  • Push-Button Pleasure:
    • The Vast Difference (LP 1986)
    • The Last Dissonance (LP 1988)
  • The Chrysanthemums:
    • Mouth Pain/Another Sacred Day (7" 1987)
    • Is That A Fish On Your Shoulder, or are you just pleased to see me (LP/CD 1988)
    • The **** Sessions 1989 (12" 1989)
    • Little Flecks Of Foam Around Barking (CD/2x LP 1989)
    • Picasso's Problem/Live at London Palladium (12" 1990)
    • Odessey and Oracle (LP/CD 1991)
    • Porcupine Quills (LP/CD 1991)
    • Chrysanthemums Go Germany (LP/CD/Box 1993)
  • Chrys&themums:
    • The Baby's Head (CD 1998)
    • A Thousand Tiny Pieces (CD EP 1998)
  • As Yukio Yung:
    • Tree Climbing Goats (and other analysing shanties) (LP 1987)
    • Valborgmassoafton (K7 1991)
    • Art Pop Stupidity 1993 (LP)
    • A Brainless Deconstruction Of The Popular Song (CD 1993)
    • Keep The Black Flag Flying/Yukio's Dream #6 (Reservoir Girls) (7" 1994)
    • (Mostly) Water (CD EP 1996)
    • Good-bye Pork Pie Brain" (10" LP 1996)
    • Hello Pulsing Vein (10" LP 1997)
    • Good-bye Pork Pie Brain/Hello Pulsing Vein (Box 1997)
  • Yung & Moore/The Yung & Moore Show
    • Objectivity (CD EP 1997
    • Conscientious Objector (RSM CD 2004)
    • The Yung & Moore Show (CD 2006)
  • Asmus Tietchens & Terry Burrows
    • Watching the Burning Bride (LP 1986)
    • Burning The Watching Bride (LP 1998)
  • Terry Burrows:
    • The Whispering Scale (LP 1989)
  • YooKO:
    • Matrix/Swirl (12" 1992)
    • Everybody Get it Together (12" 1992)
  • Tonesucker:
    • Slaughterhouse (CD 2006)

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stewart Mason, 'Yukio Yung', All Music Guide (2006). Retrieved 25 September 2006.
  2. ^ Stevie Moore, 'Terry Burrows Recording Artisan', moorestevie.com (2006). Retrieved 25 September 2006.
  3. ^ Terry Burrows, 'terryburrows.com', Orgone.co.uk (2006). Retrieved September 25 2006.
  4. ^ Stevie Moore, 'Terry Burrows Recording Artisan', moorestevie.com (2006). Retrieved 25 September 2006.
  5. ^ Stewart Mason, 'Yukio Yung', All Music Guide (2006). Retrieved 25 September 2006.
  6. ^ Stewart Mason, 'Yukio Yung', All Music Guide (2006). Retrieved 25 September 2006.
  7. ^ Terry Burrows, 'terryburrows.com', Orgone.co.uk (2006). Retrieved November 30 2006.
  8. ^ Terry Burrows, 'terryburrows.com', Orgone.co.uk (2006). Retrieved November 30 2006.
  9. ^ Stevie Moore, 'The Yung & Moore Show website', (2006). Retrieved November 30 2006.
  10. ^ Tonesucker official website, (2006). Retrieved November 30 2006.
  11. ^ Onoma Research, (2006). Retrieved November 30 2006.
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