Neil Carlill - Knowledge (XXG)

813:, and sets all thirty six poems to music. Carlill selected Poem XI for his contribution and explained, "When I was asked to contribute to the Chamber Music album for Fire Records I was immediately drawn to Poem XI. The sexual conquest of a virgin is suggested in a bygone language of an earlier era that romantically evades the real facts of the matter. I tried to make the music slither a little, to pretend to sleaze but to support the almost polite nature of lines such as "Happy love has come to woo"." The track was produced by jayrope. 918:

tried to move into more abstract, DADA territory with some of the later work, the meaning becomes coded like hypertext. The narrative is back to front or a zig-zag pattern of small movies. Tone Poet is a balance that can be achieved between narrative and nonsense, they're interchangeable and I really have no idea sometimes what is going to happen until I sing, it's instinctive mostly but occasionally the words are written down randomly and call to you in a sequence that fits."

914:

like prose-poetry sometimes, hypertext, concentrated meaning in a seemingly abstract construction. It can be a little puzzling but there is a narrative but not in the literal sense we are used to... You have to absorb and translate..."; and in another, "...you have to make the words count, but the order in which you put them is the really fun time. It's all code, puzzles, concentrated meaning. It has a surreal coloring but it's much less random than you'd expect."

81: 747: 569: 24: 913:

Concerning his writing lyrics, he has stated in one interview, "...it's a connection to the sub-conscious a side-stepping of the rational brain to let what's in you spiritually manifest itself in your creative medium. I mess with words as they come flying out of my brain uninvited. I think it's more

611:

In 2007, Neil Carlill joined Ed Drury (guitars) and Craig Murphy (synthesizers) to become the third member of Shoosh. Drury and Murphy were impressed with both Carlill's lyric writing style and his vocal delivery. The project pairs folk influenced ambient music with Carlill's Dadaist lyrics and his

550:

recordings, during which Carlill made the acquaintance of electronic artist Manuel Stagars. The pair conceived an album of bizarre musical sketches derived from ambient recordings of Stagars, which were cut to song length with Carlill adding inspired vocal concoctions laced with surrealist touches

917:

About how his writing style has changed over the years, he has said, "...I began with a much more structured style of writing that fit the conventional pop song structure, I think within that structure you can create puzzles and language is a beautiful instrument to manipulate in this way. I have

602:

Carlill teamed up with French musician Charles-Eric Charrier for two albums recorded in 2007 and 2009. The first album is a collection of voice, percussion and noise using acoustic guitar to produce an otherworldly collection of folk abstraction. The second album is one forty-seven-minute song,

824:

Three on a Match is a songwriting project by Carlill, Jeff Mellin, and Jamal River, who uses the name King Toad. Having met in 1995, Carlill and Mellin shared an appreciation of old Hollywood movies and discussed collaborating on a project. The idea for their album came from a box set of

773:

contains fourteen songs constructed via the internet, with tracks recorded by Neil in Salem, MA, and by Marcelo in Cardiff, CA. The process involved the exchanging of sound files, which were subsequently united at Radulovich's home studio. Taking inspiration from the best of the

869:

About writing the songs for the project Carlill said, "I really tried to evoke the themes and characters, and to echo how the films make me feel. Bette Davis has such an amazing screen presence, it feels very natural to write through her performances."

836:, as the name of the album. Since there were three main characters associated with the superstition that was central to the movie's plot, Carlill and Mellin decided they needed a third contributor. Carlill recruited singer and songwriter King Toad. 850:. The limited-edition CD designed by Mellin is packaged in a film canister-like container that houses the CD, a twenty eight-page booklet, and a set of "imagined movie stills" starring Niki Luparelli photographed by John Soares, and liner notes by 523:. From that album, "Always Round Here" and "Small Change" also charted. The videos produced for "I'm Leaving" and the subsequent singles were highly praised in the media for their humour and originality. It is for these same qualities that 593:

More European shows followed in 2009 with the highlight being their talked-about performance at the Klangbad Festival in Scheer, Germany, with the pared-down line-up of Carlill and jayrope. Recording of the second album is in progress.

686:

ended in 2001, he reestablished contact with Carlill and exchanged with him demos of their latest music. With each deriving great inspiration from the other's work, and seeing the potential for a brilliant album, the two men met up in

627:

in 2008. An Igloo Magazine review described that album as "a sweltering sheet of low flying beauty," and an "Is This Music?" review explained the music as, "Soundscapes of uncomfortable beauty Pulses Dadaist in theory and practice..."

603:

featuring an epic narrative written and sung by Carlill. 5 Little Elephants' music has been referred to as unconventional hybrid pop with an intimate and beautiful mature, poetic scope. Both albums are being prepared for release.

555:

also contributed his singular guitar stylings to several tracks, and Carlill played ukulele and keyboards on select songs. Vedette's self-titled debut album was released on the Stilll label (Belgium) in 2007.

294:(2008 Plush) by Lena and the Floating Roots Orchestra. Some of Neil Carlill's written work was also published in 2007 in Galleon (Volume 1, Number 1), a literary journal that features adventurous short fiction. 786:

are apparent. The album was released in May 2010. Four videos were made by Radulovich for the songs "The Red Radio", "Hounds Are Sleepy", "In the Air Blind" and the album's title track "The Weirding Valley".

519:

released a 3 track single in 1997. Its a-side, "I'm Leaving", received heavy radio exposure nationally, and the single entered the UK singles charts in the top 40. Sometime thereafter came the album

279:. During this period he also founded the bands Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, and Three on a Match through collaborations with numerous musicians in the US and Europe. 723:

collection of avant-garde pop tunes, was released 11 May 2010. Carlill credits this period with the advent of some of his finest songwriting efforts to date, which are evidenced on the

1769: 1756: 1743: 1730: 1717: 1704: 351:

in the class of bands that were "influenced by good books or good films, rather than just their late-Sixties record collections." Subsequently, their single, "I'm Just Alive" charted.

282:

He has also developed a solo project dubbed Airport Studies, and performs live under the pseudonym Harvey Mapcase. As Airport Studies, Carlill contributed a song for the

311:

was formed by Neil Carlill (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Craig Bown (guitar, flute), Pete Capewell (bass) and Stuart Dayman (drums), taking their moniker from the 1991

662:. The duo were searching for a lead vocalist to front the endeavour when, while working in the studio, they heard the voice of Neil Carlill, lead singer of the group 451:

recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, both in 1995. The first was a four track studio session and the second six tracks recorded at the

1416: 674:

was not commercially released at that time, but that meeting marked the beginning of a long-standing and currently active collaboration between Neil and

697:, the album. The bulk of the tracks on the debut album were cut in Los Angeles' Red Rum Studios in 2005, while some of the music was done back in 1537: 709:

back in 1998 was used on one track, "Cut Me from the Mirror". Often, tracks would be recorded at respective home studios and conveyed to producer

863: 1510:"May 2, 2008 midnight Vedette performance time at the Donau Festival – type in Stichwort, "Vedette" and in years, von "2008" and bis "2008"" 843:' filmography. The genre is categorised as alt/folk and acoustic pop with each of the members having written a set of songs for the album. 1574: 858:' 103rd birthday, the album was pre-released via download on 5 April 2011. A music video by Mellin and Soares for one of Mellin's tracks, 271:

Having relocated to the United States in 2000, Neil Carlill temporarily slowed his musical output until, in 2004, he resumed working with

386:, and the addition of Jonny Wood on keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, and violin. With their live band complete, they toured in the 319:, England in 1993 and while playing shows in London they were spotted by manager Tony Beard, and soon started to garner support from the 374:

called the band "The salvation of pop music". Early in 1995, bassist Pete Capewell left and was replaced by the multi-instrumentalist

1785: 1638: 1612: 1599: 1509: 1907: 1811: 399: 1798: 1429:

the Zobbel website click on "Chart Log UK" at "CLUK 1994–2008 Artist Index" click on “D” and scroll to "Delicatessen"

1837: 761:

This project is a collaboration between Carlill and musician/artist Marcelo Radulovich, who previously worked with

713:, before moving on to yet another, larger studio for post-recording and mixing to perfect the finished product. 403: 202:, and more recently with bands and collaborations including Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, 620: 1485:

the Zobbel website click on "Chart Log UK" at "CLUK 1994–2008 Artist Index" click on “L” and scroll to "Lodger"

312: 854:. The album was also released as custom Three on a Match matchboxes containing download codes. To commemorate 615:

Shoosh contributed two tracks to a split album with another group, Cheju, in November 2007. The album, titled

846:

The CD for Three on a Match was released on Stereorrific Recordings on 26 May 2011 at the Gulu Gulu Café in

1770: