Sam Collin: (Tricky, Tour de France) drum & bass
William Harrington: (Frank Zappa, UEM) sax, keys
Frank Horvat: keys, effects
Otis Smit: keys
Paulo Diaz: (Beck, Beastie Boys) upright bass
Stuart Casson: (HR/Bad Brains) guitar
Rich Ploucher: (Sting) violin
Influences
Cat Power Radiohead Interpol The Clash Beck Blondie The Ramones Sigur Ros The Pretenders The Sex Pistols Sweet David Bowie The Cult Pink Floyd Van Halen King Crimson The Doors Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath AC/DC Jimi Hendrix Kaki King Nick Drake Tim Buckley Jeff Buckley Bob Marley Cocteau Twins Marianne Faithfull Imogen Heap Nirvana Neil Young Harry Nilsson Atmosphere Frodad Yes Psychadelic Furs Face to Face The Cure Joy Division Sonic Youth Pixies The Used Iggy Pop Buzzcocks Joni Mitchell Frank Zappa Alice Cooper Ben Harper Peter Murphy The Beatles Elliot Smith Rolling Stones Eels Bruce Haack Franz Liszt John Zorn John Cage Jeff Healey Stone Roses Flock of Seaguls Wolf Eyes Mazzy Star Janis Joplin Johnny Cash My Bloody Valentine The Who PiL Lou Reed Laurie Anderson Tom Waits Velvet Underground White Stripes Bjork Fripp & Eno Nico Rodrigo y Gabriela PJ Harvey Ulrich Schnauss Billie Holliday Local H Eurythmics Tori Amos Traffic Kiss Gary Numan The Cars U2 Van Morrison Silversun Pickups Jefferson Airplane Big Country Death Cab for Cutie Morphine Massive Attack Chemical Brothers Mike Watt Tool Billy Squier Circle Jerks The Melvins Red Hot Chili Peppers Stranglers Vincent Gallo Bob Dylan RATM Jane's Addiction Sly & the Family Stone Patsy Cline Django Reinhardt Love & Rockets Prodigy Urge Overkill Snow Patrol DEVO New Order The Police Crystal Method Aerosmith Bauhaus NIN Morrisey QOTSA Beastie Boys Rocco Deluca Autolux Alice in Chains Sneaker Pimps New York Dolls Editors Nada Surf MC5 Buckethead The Stooges Black Flag Moby Ratt Sugar Cubes Oingo Boingo TVOTR Queen Dead Kennedys Parliament Funkadelic Green Day Oasis Ella Fitzgerald Patti Smith ELO Smashing Pumpkins Rancid Deftones Oakenfold Elefant Supertramp Tom Petty Pat Benetar Cheap Trick Marvin Gaye Talking Heads Dead Milkmen Luscious Jackson Sleater Kinney Bad Brains Delfonics Triumph Joan Jett GNR Peter Gabriel Secret Machines Rick James The Germs Meat Loaf Mars Volta Social D Sinead O'Connor The Smiths The Fixx Velvet Revolver Siouxie & the Banshees Bow Wow Wow Tom Tom Club STP Fleetwood Mac The Carpenters No Doubt Todd Rundgren Sarah McLachlan Husker Du Wilco The Tubes New Order Ohio Players Gene loves Jezebel Cypress Hill Aimee Mann Pennywise Ozzy Osbourne Outkast INXS Carole King The Verve Ani Difranco Barry White Pearl Jam Foo Fighters Yeah Yeah Yeahs Rush Al Green The Faces Golden Earring
spacekitti's EP "galaxy" produced by Sam Collin (Tricky, Tour de France) is on the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop list and named one of the best albums of 2007 by CREEM critic/Alice Cooper/Iggy Pop bio writer Jeffrey Morgan on CREEMmagazine.com:
spacekitti - galaxy (dart) :: "spacekitti is the future of electronic sonic exotica. On galaxy, the mistress of psychedelic trance skillfully merges the trippiest elements of classic popmuzik with rampant ambient drone, all super-stacked into one supersonic package."
Jeffrey Morgan's review of NXNE show and galaxy EP:
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: spacekitti galaxy (dart) :: So there I was, doing the seedy sidewalk shuffle late one night, when all of a sudden I hear this compelling cacophony of chaos detonating out the door of a corner bar. Instantly in love, I walk in and am I stunned to see this bodacious blond bombshell with a binary brain sitting all by her lonesome onstage with a guitar slung across her lap, hammering out cosmic coruscating sheets of rampant ambient drone, all mega-amped up to the nillionth hyperwatt degree like she's the new hard-wired industrial age Nico. Letting the amateurs stay safely ensconced at the back, I stood at the front of the stage and watched as this woman single-handedly sculpted an aural psychetecture that evoked everything from Edgar Froese and Klaus Schulze to Steve Reich and Terry Riley.
After I recovered, I scooped up a copy of her record galaxy and took it home, fully expecting to wallow in a marathon drone session. Instead, I found a concise set of five pop songs primed to a percolating electropulse. How do I love it? Let me count the ways: "Fearless" is a whispering wash that evokes the best of early Ralf and Florian when they were still a duo; "High Strung" is a rapid-fire foggy mental breakdown; "Nobody Cares" is a deliriously disjointed herky-jerk that out-deadpans Annette Peacock; "Strung Out" is a minimal off-world space sitar recital; and "Ibizakitti" is a languid flow house drone.
But as great as galaxy is, it's just a foretaste of what this woman is capable of doing. In her hands, the guitar is a time-spanning teleportation device through which all matter is made malleable as she spans the cosmos, traversing the space between the notes.
She is spacekitti. And spacekitti is the future of electronic sonic exotica.
To accompany her poems Jill tried to learn the "proper" way of playing guitar, and in the process, developed her percussive guitar tapping technique which has evoked diverse and humbling comparisons...
Jill's guitar style/sound has been compared to: Laurie Anderson, Pink Floyd, early Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Jimmy Page, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Interpol, My Bloody Valentine, Sun Ra Arkestra, Adrian Belew and Terry Riley. Her vocal style/sound has been compared to: Annie Lennox, Marianne Faithfull, Nico and PJ Harvey.
spacekitti has opened for and shared the stage with: Urge Overkill, John Doe (X), Sea Wolf, Handsome Furs (Wolf Parade), Nina Nastacia and Jim White, Sagittarians (...Trail of Dead), Skyline Electric (DEVO) and Ninja Academy.
spacekitti has performed at NXNE, Make Music NY, 2008 Artivist Film Fest at The Egyptian Theater, 2007 Jeff Buckley Tribute, REDCAT Lounge, live on Audition Booth KCSN 88.5 FM and clubs throughout LA: Knitting Factory, The Key Club, Tangier, Hyperion Tavern...
hy, just like to tel you, there is another NEW TRACK in our player... THE POWER DEEP INSIDE would be nice if you can leave a feedback... but its cool enough, if you like the tune and maybe understand the message... ;-) peace terry
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"The new man is the birth of an absolutely fresh man -- unconditioned, without any nation, without any religion, without any discrimination between man and woman, black and white, East and West, or North and South.
The new man is going to be the very salt of the earth, concerned about how to increase the joys of life, the pleasures of life -- more creativity, more beauty, more humanity, more compassion.
We can go through a total transformation: we can create innocent people, loving people, people who breathe in freedom, people who help each other to be free, who are nourishment for each other's creativity and for everybody to be dignified, to be respected.
The new man is the manifesto of a new humanity, one humanity.
This is a great and fortunate moment -- to be in this challenging situation. It is not a situation that is going to destroy the earth, but only the churches and the politicians and those who hold onto the past.
It is a golden opportunity, because if the whole of humanity becomes aware of the roots of the problems, then the solutions are actually very simple..."
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Bowed guitar and Jeff Buckley tributes? We must be kindred spirits. :) Also, you look DISTURBINGLY like my girlfriend. (She's #1 in my top friends if you want to see what I mean.)
Thanks for reaching out - don't hesitate to write, and have an awesome day! love Michael
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