Biography
Set Fire to Flames was a Canadian instrumental music ensemble consisting of 13 musicians from Montreal, Quebec. The band is often considered a side-project of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as the two musical ensembles share several members.
Both albums were recorded "in states of little or no sleep, in varying levels of intoxication, and in physical confinement," with the result being brooding, eerie music. The material for their first album Sings Reign Rebuilder was created over five days in a dilapidated old apartment in Montreal and is a mixture of improvisation, composition, and environment noises. Their sophomore double album Telegraphs In Negative / Mouths Trapped In Static was recorded in a barn in rural Ontario; the sounds of the creaking doors and other background noise are heard in the songs.
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A third album was recorded in collaboration with the band Jackie-O Motherfucker but never released. In 2009, a composition from the band's first album was included on a compilation album released by 130701. In 2016, a previously unreleased track was issued on 130701's 15th-anniversary compilation Eleven Into Fifteen.
Members
Beckie Foon
Bruce Cawdron
Christof Migone
David Bryant
Fluffy Erskine
Gen Heistek
Gordon Krieger
Jean-Sébastien Truchy
Mike Moya
Roger Tellier-Craig
Sophie Trudeau
Speedy Weaver
Thea Pratt
Aidan Girt
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.