Barry Burns is a member of Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. He joined the band for their second LP, Come On Die Young and has been with the band ever since. Burns is a versatile multi-instrumentalist and contributes (among other things) keyboards, guitar and ambient vocals. He is also the only member of the band with a formal foundation in music theory. The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔鬼 (Yale: mo1 gwai2) (Mandarin Chinese: 魔鬼; pinyin：móguǐ) meaning ghost, evil spirit, devil or demon. Mogwai in the Gremlins series As depicted in the 1984 Joe Dante film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the word... Come On Die Young is the fourth album by the post-rock group Mogwai. ... A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Music theory is a field of study that involves an investigation of the many diverse elements of a music, including the development and methodology for analyzing, hearing, understanding, and composing music. ...