Burk Price

Guitarist and bandleader Burk Cost has won a little but powerful cult following among record enthusiasts and acoustic guitar mavens because of a small number of recordings he recorded in the ’70s and ’80s, especially an unusual mixture of hard rock and roll and prog rock and roll he cut along with his music group Maya on the self-released solitary, “Synthezoid Heartbreak” b/w “Distant Visions.” A longtime fixture within the Cincinnati, Ohio rock and roll scene, Burk Cost shaped Maya in 1973, with Cost (sometimes referred to as Skyhorse Cost) on business lead acoustic guitar, Chris Clow on vocals, Greg Whalen on bass, and Jim Vassil on drums. Using a unique setup that used a large assortment of results containers and a tape reverb device, Price’s audio was expressive without undue adobe flash, and was captured on Maya’s debut solitary, documented at Jewel Studios in Mt. Healthy, Ohio. Released in 1975, “Synthezoid Heartbreak” b/w “Distant Visions” was small heard beyond Ohio initially, but in period it became a cult item, distributed by enthusiasts of unique acoustic guitar work all over the world. In 1976, Cost split up Maya and shaped a Cincinnati-based hard rock and roll/metal music group known as Desire, featuring vocalist Fred Daniel, bassist David Svach, and drummer Larry Sexton; that same yr, Cost was the main topic of an attribute in GUITARIST journal, citing him as you of America’s greatest unfamiliar guitarists. Desire would lower an recording, Cry in the Sky, in 1983, but relating to Robert Thiessen, who created the Maya and Desire recordings, the second option music group broke up shortly after the launch of Cry in the Sky because of Price’s have a problem with medication addiction and psychological instability. Cost eventually shifted to California and dropped into obscurity, however in the brand new millennium he came back to the level, playing inside a Vallejo, California group known as Cluster Phunk. In 2016, as the status for Maya’s a unitary continued to pass on, Touch Sensitive Information (an imprint from the reputed reissue label Light in the Attic) provided “Synthezoid Heartbreak” b/w “Distant Visions” a certified reissue on 7″ vinyl fabric.