Burning House is a bombastic sonic summit created by beat-maker extraordinaire Chief Xcel (Blackalicious) and keyboard wiz Hervé Salters (aka General Elektriks). 
One of the founding members of heralded San Francisco Bay Area Hip-Hop collective Quannum Projects (Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Latyrx …), Xcel met Salters when the latter moved from his native France (Paris) to S.F in the early 2000s. Quickly realizing that they both shared a common love for all things funky and irreverential, and both agreeing that when it comes to music, anything goes, The Chief would go on to invite Hervé and his vintage keys on numerous tracks and projects, while Salters invited Xcel on his first album as General Elektriks. The Frenchman then joined Blackalicious live on keys for the year 2005 (then touring behind ‘The Craft’). The seeds for what would become Burning House were planted around that time. They blossomed slowly but very loudly until 2012, when Xcel joined Salters for a week in Paris, and when much of the writing and producing groundwork for their first album was laid down. They reconvened a few months later, this time in Berlin where Hervé was now residing, and finished the album then. They weren’t quite done with the country hopping though, and decided to head back to San Francisco to mix the record.
Burning House's first album is a radical and unprecedented collage of raw funk, relentless hip hop, contagious club music and brash jazz. Switching gears effortlessly between dance-floor scorchers like ‘Post Party Stress Disorder’, Boom Bap hard-hitters like ‘The Nightbird’ and a future fresh Jazz ballad like ‘Frozen Conversations’, Xcel’s beats and Salters’ keys whip up a completely personal take on what the two still believe modern music can be: a place over which creativity and freedom reign. 
They are joined by fellow backing vocalists and instrumentalists on a selection of tracks; lead vocal duties are handled by Salters. 


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