Name	Baby Dee
Background	solo_singer
Born	1953Cleveland, Ohio
Instrument	Vocals, piano, harp, accordion
Occupation	Musician, performance artist
Years active	2000–present
Genre	Baroque Pop, folk, experimental rock
Label	World Serpent Distribution, Durtro, Drag City
Associated acts	Current 93, Antony and the Johnsons, Marc Almond, The Dresden Dolls
Url	http://www.babydee.org

Baby Dee (born 1953) is an American performance artist, harpist and accordionist, and singer-songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio. She has worked with Antony and the Johnsons, the Sex Pistols, Andrew WK, and many other artists on the New York City scene.

She has toured extensively with Current 93, playing piano and harp. Since 2007, she has also performed with Marc Almond on his tours, and appears on his DVD Bluegate Fields. Furthermore, Baby Dee briefly toured with The Dresden Dolls in London, and made an appearance on their DVD Live at the Roundhouse.

Discography

Little Window (2000)

Love's Small Song (2002)

Live in Turin (2004)

Made for Love (2005)

The Robin’s Tiny Throat (2007)

Safe Inside the Day (2008)

A Book of Songs for Anne Marie (2010)

References

External links

Official Website

Dominic Eichler on Baby Dee

Baby Dee video interview on MonsterFresh.com (June 2010)

Category:1953 births Category:American singer-songwriters Category:American harpists Category:American pianists Category:American accordionists Category:Transgender and transsexual musicians Category:LGBT musicians from the United States Category:People from Cleveland, Ohio Category:Living people

Name	Marc Almond
Landscape	yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Peter Mark Sinclair Almond
Born	July 09, 1957Southport, (then Lancashire,now Merseyside), England
Instrument	Vocals
Genre	Rock, cabaret, pop, art pop
Occupation	Musician, singer-songwriter
Years active	1978–present
Label	Some Bizzare, Virgin, Sire, Echo, Blue Star, Sanctuary, Vertigo
Associated acts	Soft Cell, Marc and the Mambas, Flesh Volcano, The Immaculate Consumptive, Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners, Jools Holland, Sex Gang Children, Current 93
Url	http://www.marcalmond.co.uk/

Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell. Including his time with Soft Cell, he has sold over 30 million records worldwide.

Childhood and early life

Almond was born on 9 July 1957 in the coastal town of Southport (which was at that time part of Lancashire, but is now part of Merseyside) in the North West of England. He is the son of Sandra Mary Almond née Dieson and Peter John Sinclair Almond, Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. He was brought up at his grandparents' house in Birkdale with his younger sister Julia, and as a child suffered from bronchitis and asthma. When he was four, they left their grandparent's house and moved to Starbeck on the edge of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Two years later they returned to Southport, and then moved to Horsforth (near Leeds).

At age 11 he attended Airborough Grammar School outside Leeds. By this time his father had become an alcoholic, and Almond found solace in music, listening to British radio pioneer John Peel. The first album he purchased was the soundtrack of the stage musical Hair and the first single "Green Manalishi" by Fleetwood Mac. He loved all kinds of music and was at first a fan of rock, blues and progressive music. He liked Free and Jethro Tull and the first band he ever saw live was Van der Graaf Generator. He has always remained a fan of Van der Graaf Generator's singer Peter Hammill. He later became a great fan of Marc Bolan and David Bowie and got a part time job as a stable boy to fund his musical tastes.

After his parents divorce in 1972 he moved with his mother back to his home town of Southport. After leaving school a year late due to educational problems, he got various jobs to support himself at art college: at Southport Theatre as a stage hand, on Southport's Pleasureland fairground, at a boutique called 'His and Hers', and at Bevans Fruit drink factory. It was at this time, aged 17, that he became the singer (because he 'looked the part' and because of his musical knowledge) in a local band firstly called Andromeda and later Hot n' Nasty. The band played covers of Free, The Doors, The Beatles and Bowie amongst other chart songs of the day, and gigged locally.

He gained two O-Levels in Art and English and was accepted onto a General Art and Design course at Southport College, specialising in Performance Art. He had a major nervous breakdown and suicide attempt, and was sectioned at Ormskirk Hospital for a short time.

He applied to Leeds Polytechnic where he was interviewed by Jeff Nuttall, also a performance artist, who accepted him on the strength of his performing skills. During his time at the Art College he did a series of performance theatre pieces: Zazou, Glamour in Squalor, Twilights and Lowlifes, as well as Andy Warhol inspired mini movies. The Yorkshire Evening Post called one of his performances "depressingly nihilistic" of which Almond was delighted. Almond became immersed in the Leeds Punk scene after seeing the Sex Pistols on the Anarchy Tour and followed bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees. He left Art College with a 2/1 honours degree. His diploma show was judged by writer and artist Molly Parkin. Almond later went to stay with her at Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful's old house in London's Cheyne Walk and Molly introduced him to a London Art crowd. Almond later credited Molly Parkin with discovering him.

Almond got jobs to finance his time at college: at Leeds Playhouse as a barman, and at The Warehouse Nightclub, first as coatcheck and then as D.J. (when he and fellow student Kris Neate started a successful night there, playing early electronic dance sounds and post-punk, attracting a large flamboyant crowd from the North of England). He later started a more experimental night called the Curfew Club and later another successful night at Leeds Phonographique in the Merrion Center. At this time he began to make journeys to London and got small part-time jobs in London's Soho including a clip joint. He used experiences as inspirations for his performances and early songs.

It was whilst at Leeds Polytechnic that Almond met David Ball a fellow student, and they formed Soft Cell in 1979.

Early musical influences

As a child, Almond listened to his parent's record collection, which included his mother's "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez and "The Twist" by Chubby Checker, also his father's collection of jazz including Dave Brubeck and Eartha Kitt. As an adolescent, Almond listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg. He listened at first to Progressive, Blues and Rock Music, Free, Jethro Tull, Van der Graaf Generator, The Who, and The Doors, and bought the first ever issue of Sounds because it contained a free poster of Jimmy Page. He belonged to the school record club, listening to all the new Rock albums of the day bought in by the pupils. It was a musical education. He became a great fan of Marc Bolan after hearing him on the John Peel Show, buying the T.Rex single "Ride a White Swan", from then on he 'followed everything Marc Bolan did', and it was his obsession with Bolan that prompted Almond to adopt the 'Marc' spelling. He was also a great fan of David Bowie, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Nico, the New York Dolls, Jobriath and Brian Eno. He went to concerts by Lou Reed, Captain Beefheart, and Cockney Rebel in Liverpool, but the highlight was when he climbed over the barriers at the front of a David Bowie concert, reached out and was touched by the man himself. He discovered the songs of Jacques Brel through David Bowie as well as Alex Harvey, Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield. Brel became a major influence. After singing Brel's songs from early in his career, Brel's estate cited him as the best living interpreter of Brel's songs. Love of Brel led to a love of all French Chanson.

Career

1980s

Almond initially shot to fame in the early 1980s as one half of the synth duo Soft Cell, whose combination of urban drama and peep show sleaze set to an electronic beat gave them hits such as "Tainted Love" (UK #1), "Bedsitter" (UK #4), "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (UK #3), "Torch" (UK #2), "What!" (UK #3), "Soul Inside" (UK #16), and the club hit "Memorabilia". Soft Cell's first release was an independent record (funded by David Ball's mother) entitled "Mutant Moments" via Red Rhino Records in 1980. It came to the attention of music entrepreneur Stevo Pearce (usually known as simply 'Stevo'), who at the time was compiling a 'futurist' chart for the music paper Sounds which featured young, upcoming and experimental bands of the new wave of electronic sound. He signed the duo to his Some Bizarre label and they enjoyed a string of nine Top 40 hit singles and four Top 20 albums in the UK between 1981-84. They recorded three albums in New York with producer Mike Thorne: Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing and The Art of Falling Apart. Soft Cell disbanded in 1984 just before the release of their fourth album, This Last Night In Sodom, though the duo reunited in 2001. "Tainted Love", a cover of a Gloria Jones Northern Soul classic, was in the Guinness Book of Records for a while as the record that spent the longest time in the Billboard Top 100 chart in the U.S.A.

Whilst in Soft Cell, Almond simultaneously worked on the side project Marc and the Mambas. This ensemble released two albums (Untitled and the double Torment and Toreros) within a 12 month period (1982–83), marking a departure from Almond's work within Soft Cell. Also around this time, Almond had a second nervous breakdown and declared his intention to retire from the recording industry, though this never occurred.

Almond's first solo album was Vermin in Ermine, released in 1984. It featured musicians from the Mambas outfit, Annie Hogan, Martin McCarrick and Billy McGee. This ensemble, known as The Willing Sinners, worked alongside Almond for the subsequent albums Stories Of Johnny (1985) and Mother Fist and her Five Daughters (1987). Some Bizzare also released Almond's two mini albums, A Woman's Story and Violent Silence in 1986. McCarrick left The Willing Sinners in 1987 to join Siouxsie and the Banshees, from which point Hogan and McGee became known as La Magia. Almond released the album The Stars We Are in 1988. This Some Bizzare album featured Almond's version of "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart", which was later re-recorded as a duet with the song's original singer Gene Pitney and released as a single. The track reached number 1 in the UK . It was also number one in Germany and was a major hit in countries around the world. The album itself would become his biggest selling solo album in the U.S.A, with his biggest-selling solo single "Tears Run Rings".

Later in 1989, Some Bizzare Records released Jacques, an album of Jacques Brel songs. He also recorded in Paris an album of French Chanson and poetry called Absynth.

1990s

Almond's first release in the 1990s was the album Enchanted, which spawned the Top 30 hit "A Lover Spurned". A further single from the album, "Waifs and Strays", was remixed by Dave Ball who was now in the electronic dance band The Grid.

In 1991, Soft Cell returned to the charts with a new remix of "Say Hello Wave Goodbye" followed by a re-release of "Tainted Love" (with a new video). The singles were issued to promote a new Soft Cell/Marc Almond compilation album, Memorabilia - The Singles , which collected some of the biggest hits from Almond's career throughout the previous ten years. The album reached the UK Top 10.

Later that year, Almond released a new solo album, Tenement Symphony. Produced partly by Trevor Horn, the album yielded three Top 40 hits including renditions of the Jacques Brel classic "Jacky" (which made the UK Top 20), and "The Days of Pearly Spencer" which returned Almond to the UK Top 5 in 1992. Later that year, Almond played a lavish one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which featured an orchestra and dancing troupe as he performed material from his entire career. The show was executively produced by Stevo Warner recorded and released as the CD and video 12 Years of Tears.

Almond's next major studio album was Fantastic Star, released in 1996 on the Some Bizarre label and distributed by Mercury Records. The album was recorded in New York with Mike Thorne, and was originally due to be distributed through Warner, but as recording neared completion, long-time manager Stevo took Almond (and some other Some Bizarre acts) across to Mercury Records instead. Fantastic Star was finally released after a long hiatus and much reworking. It contained the hit single "Adored and Explored". This album was Almond's last to be released on the Some Bizzare label. During the original recordings for Warner, Almond was encouraged by Stevo to enter rehab to battle a long-term addiction to benzodiazapine prescription drugs, amongst others. As a result of this period in rehab (which was paid for by Warner), after a short while (after the release of Fantastic Star), Almond decided to terminate his contract with Stevo.

In 1999, Almond signed to Echo records and launched his own label, Blue Star. He released a new studio album Open All Night, which featured collaborations with Siouxsie Sioux and Kelli Dayton, formerly of The Sneaker Pimps, but again changed labels mid-album (to European label Tres Bis V111) when Echo took on a new head of A and R who didn't see eye-to-eye with Almond. Almond released his first biography "Tainted Life", followed later by "In Search of the Pleasure Palace". He had already released some volumes of poetry and lyrics, "The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge" and "A Beautiful Twisted Night".

2000s

In 2001, Almond reunited with Dave Ball and played several live shows as Soft Cell. He also released another solo album, Stranger Things recorded in Iceland with Icelandic producer Johann Johannson. He was asked to guest with German band Rosenstolz on their album Kassengift and had a German hit with them with a cover of Klaus Nomis' track "Total Eclipse", which reached there number 11. Almond performed "Tantalise Me" from Stranger Things at the London Fashion show by designer Roland Mouret.

In 2002, Soft Cell released their first new album in 18 years, Cruelty Without Beauty and had a top 40 hit with a cover of the Frankie Valli's song "The Night". Following this, Almond also took up DJ-ing (something he originally had done before Soft Cell had taken off) and recorded with dance artists such as Ferry Corsten.

Whilst living in Moscow in 2003, Almond recorded a project of Russian folk music. Produced by Andrey Samsonov, Heart On Snow featured collaborations with some of Russia's biggest music stars, Lyudmila Zykina and Alla Bayanova, Boris Grebenshchikov and Ilya Lagutenko as well as a the Russian Naval Choir and the famous Rossiya Folk Orchestra. The album included famous Russian songs such as "The Storks" and "So Long The Path". "Tenderness" was an outtake, but later released as a download single through Almond's official website.

In 2004 Almond performed at London's Almeida Theatre in a two week residency he called "Sin Songs Torch and Romance". This was recorded and released for DVD. He also performed at Radio City Music Hall with The Pussycat Dolls on a special version of "Tainted Love" at Fashion Rocks.

On 17 October 2004, Almond was badly injured in a motorbike accident in London, in which he was a pillion passenger. Although the initial prognosis was considered poor, he was discharged from Royal London Hospital on 6 November 2004 and was said to be making a "remarkable" recovery. Two months later he was giving press and TV interviews saying he could not wait to get back on stage. His recovery was, however, to take longer than he thought, involving several operations and counselling for post traumatic stress disorder after serious head injuries.

In 2005, as Almond continued his recovery, he did various DJ gigs all over Europe, and guested at the Meltdown Festival in London in June 2005, hosted by Patti Smith. Almond contributed two songs to this night of Brecht music, "Bilbao Song" and "What Keeps a Man Alive". In October, November and December 2005, Almond went on tour with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, singing two songs during the shows, "Say Hello Wave Goodbye" and "Tainted Love", which had new orchestral arrangements done by Holland. Also in 2005, he contributed a track to the Serge Gainsbourg tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.

2006 saw Almond concentrate on recording, making few public appearances, though he did headline the Manchester Gay Pride Festival in August of that year. Almond also appears on the 2006 album Black Ships Ate the Sky by experimental band Current 93.

Almond signed a three album deal with Sanctuary and released a new album of cover songs, Stardom Road, on 4 June 2007, It features artists such as St Etienne's Sarah Cracknell and Antony from Antony and the Johnsons. The title track was a reworking of the Third World War 1970s track and two of the cover versions included in this new album are Dusty Springfield's "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten", which was recorded with Sarah Cracknell, and Gene Pitney's "Backstage (I'm Lonely)", as a tribute to the late crooner, featuring a guest appearance by Jools Holland. The album also included one new self-penned song, "Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem the World)", his first composition since the near-fatal motorbike accident. The deal came abruptly to an end when Sanctuary went bankrupt and folded in 2008.

Almond made his return to the London stage as a special surprise guest at a concert by Antony and the Johnsons soon after his accident but a three-night run at the historic Wilton's Music Hall in May 2007 were his first full-length UK shows since his accident. He had been warming up with shows in Barcelona, Athens and Moscow. He then recorded a BBC Radio special which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 1 June 2007, and played a mini-tour in June and July, culminating in a 50th birthday concert before 2,000 fans and friends at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on 9 July.

On 29 July 2007, Almond made his first ever live appearance in his home town of Southport as a guest of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, with whom he again performed "Say Hello Wave Goodbye" and "Tainted Love" He awarded The Doors (Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger) a Hall of Fame Award on behalf of Mojo Magazine at their 2007 awards.

Almond toured again extensively with Jools Holland in 2008, performing a longer set which included Edith Piaf's Hymn of Love and On My Soul a song written with Jools Holland. He also performed a two week 'Sin Songs Torch and Romance' residency at London's Wilton's Music Hall which was filmed and recorded for a live DVD and album called 'Bluegate Fields-live at Wilton's Music hall'. Almond was later made a Patron of the Music Hall.

In the same year, alongside Current 93 frontman David Tibet and sopranist Ernesto Tomasini, he sings on Digital Angel, the debut album of Greek composer Othon Mataragas. Other performances that year included the Peace One Day concert at the albert Hall where he sang with a Gospel Choir and a performance also at the albert Hall for the Yves St Laurent label at the Fashion Rocks event. He also performed at tributes to Marc Bolan (where he sang Tainted Love for the first and last time with Gloria Jones,) Jacques Brel, Current 93 and Sandy Denny.

2009 saw the release of a new album Orpheus In Exile - Songs of Vadim Kozin, which consisted of covers of the Gypsy Russian Romance singer Vadim Kozin songs, and the start of a UK tour, supported by Baby Dee, beginning with a concert at The Roundhouse on the 1st November.

2010s

In June 2010, Almond released Varieté, his first studio album of self-penned songs in almost a decade. Almond has stated this will possibly be his last fully self-penned album. He also announced a new concert tour in Autumn 2010 to celebrate his 30 years in music. Almond was also awarded a Hero Award by the music magazine Mojo. Antony Hegarty presented the award.

On November 30, 2010, Almond was due to perform at his 30th Anniversary Greatest Hits Tour at the Villa Marina, in Douglas, Isle of Man. However due to severe weather on The Island on 28 November this has now been postponed until December 9.

Collaborations

Almond has had a varied career spanning 30 years. During this time, after a career with Soft Cell and Marc and the Mambas, he has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Antony and The Johnsons, Jools Holland, Siouxsie Sioux, Nick Cave, P.J. Proby, Nico, Kelli Dayton, Neal X (on the albums Fantastic Star and Open All Night), Marie France, Agnes Bernelle, Lydia Lunch, Gene Pitney, Foetus (a.k.a. J. G. Thirlwell), Bronski Beat, Psychic TV, Coil, Sally Timms of the Mekons, King Roc, John Cale, David Johansen of The New York Dolls, German band Rosenstolz and Greek composer Othon Mataragas, plus a selection of famous Russian music stars including Lyudmilla Zykina, Alla Bayanova, Boris Grebenshchikov and Ilya Lagutenko of the band Mumiy Trol.

Autobiography and personal life

In 1999, Almond received accolades for his autobiography, entitled Tainted Life, which told of his early life, creative ventures, his sexuality (Almond is gay), and drug addiction, for which he was hospitalized in 1994. Almond wrote the autobiography without a ghost writer and his publishers subsequently commissioned him to write a travel book, In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels, whose publication in 2004 was accompanied by a book-signing tour.

Almond currently lives in the south east of London, as well as Moscow and Barcelona. In his autobiography he describes previously living in New York as well as Earl's Court, in a converted church in Fulham and most memorably in Soho's Berwick Street, where he lived in a flat overlooking the Raymond Revuebar.

Discography

References

External links

Official website

Interview with Marc Almond about his car crash and Southport roots

Category:1957 births Category:Sire Records artists Category:Living people Category:Echo Records artists Category:English male singers Category:English pop singers Category:English singer-songwriters Category:LGBT people from England Category:LGBT musicians from the United Kingdom Category:People from Southport Category:Old Georgians (KGV) Category:Alumni of Leeds Metropolitan University Category:Torch singers

Name	Jóhann Jóhannsson
Background	non_performing_personnel
Birth name	Jóhann Jóhannsson
Origin	Iceland
Url	www.johannjohannsson.com

Jóhann Jóhannsson (born 1969) is an Icelandic musician, composer and producer. He is a co-founder of Kitchen Motors in Reykjavík, the art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in initiating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing films, books and radio shows based on the ideals of experimentation, collaboration and the search for new art forms.

Jóhann founded the Apparat Organ Quartet in 1999, who have played various European festivals. Jóhann has also produced and written music with artists as diverse as Marc Almond (Stranger Things album), Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic, The Hafler Trio, Magga Stina and others. He has written music for theatre, documentaries and soundtrack music for several feature films. Jóhann is a member of the Icelandic electronica supergroup Evil Madness.

Discography

Albums

(2002) Englabörn (Touch)

(2004) Virðulegu Forsetar (Touch)

(2004) Dís (12 Tónar, in Iceland) (2005, The Worker's Institute, in the US)

(2006) IBM 1401, A User's Manual (4AD)

(2007) Englabörn (re-issued, 4AD)

(2008) Fordlândia (4AD)

(2009) And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees

Singles

(2006) The Sun’s Gone Dim And The Sky’s Turned Black (4AD)

Selected works

Feature film soundtracks

Íslenski draumurinn by Robert Ingi Douglas (IS 2000)

Óskabörn þjóðarinnar by Jóhann Sigmarsson (IS 2000)

The End of St. Petersburg (soundtrack for the Soviet silent film by Vsevolod Pudovkin 2001)

Maður eins og ég by Robert Ingi Douglas (IS 2002)

Dís by Silja Hauksdóttir (IS 2004)

Wicker Park by Paul McGuigan (writer, performer for tracks: "Sálfraedingur", "Ég Átto Gráa Aesku", "Ég Sleppi Thér Aldrei") (2004)

Blóðbönd AKA Thicker than Water by Árni Óli Ásgeirsson (IS 2006)

Short film soundtracks

Varmints by Marc Craste (UK 2008)

Propinquity by Jonathan Skinner (UK 2006)

Keepsake by Tim Shore (UK 2003)

Documentary soundtracks

Corpus Camera (Stö_ 2, (Channel 2) 1999)

Leyndardómar Íslenskra Skrímsla (Sjónvarpi_ (Channel 1) 2000)

Erró- Norður, suður, austur, vestur (Stö_2 (Channel 2) 2000)

Music for plays (composer)

"Vitleysingarnir" by Ólafur Haukur Símonarsson (Hafnarfjördur Theater 2000)

"Margrét Mikla" by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Icelandic Take-away Theatre 1996)

"Fireface" by Marius Von Mayerberg (RÚV 2000)

"Englabörn" by Hávar Sigurjónsson (Hafnarfjördur Theater 2001)

"Kryddlegin Hjörtu" by Laura Esquivel (Borgarleikhús 2002)

"Pabbastrákur" by Hávar Sigurjónsson (Icelandic National Theatre 2003)

"Viktoría og Georg" by Ólafur Haukur Símonarsson (Icelandic National Theatre 2002)

"Jón Gabríel Borkman" by Henrik Ibsen (Icelandic National Theatre 2004)

"Dínamít" by Birgir Sigurðsson (Icelandic National Theatre 2005)

"Døden i Teben" by Sophocles/Jon Fosse (Det Norske Teatret 2008)

Works for the stage

"IBM 1401, a User´s Manual" with Erna Ómarsdóttir (2002)

"Mysteries of Love" with Erna Ómarsdóttir (2005)

Other music (composer)

Völuspá: Music for a radio art piece by Jón Hallur Stefánsson (with composer Haukur Tómasson)

Theme music for the TV program "Femin" (Channel 2 2001)

Music for the TV program "Svartir Englar" (RÚV 2008)

Installations, etc.

"Já", music written for Sigurður Guðmundsson’s installation "Duet" performed at the Icelandic National Gallery, October 2000.

"Chairmen of the board", music for Ari Alexander Magnússon’s installation at the 30/60 exhibition, Kjarvalssta_ir Art Museum 1998 (with Óttarr Proppé), also at Akureyri Art Museum 1998

Music for an installation by Ari Alexander Magnússon at Gallery Mokka 1997.

Music for Snorri Ásmundsson’s installation "XXX-reyri" at the "Orgasm 2000" exhibition At Akureyri Art Museum, January 2000.

Music for the performance "We are the world" by the Icelandic Love Corporation at Batofar, Paris 2000.

Music for the installation "Fjörfiskar" by Finnur Arnar at the Epal showroom, March 2001.

Music for the installation "Vocal IV" by Rúrí at Reykjavík Art Museum Hafnarhús, October 2008.

As producer/arranger

Magga Stina: An album (One Little Indian 1998)

Megasarlög (POP 1997)

Siggi Ármann: Mindscape (Smekkleysa 2001)

The Hafler Trio: La Chanson Dada (These Records 2002)

Barry Adamson & Pan Sonic: The Hymn of the Seventh Illusion (Kitchen Motors/Ómi 2001)

Miscellaneous

Member of the selection committee for ART2000, the first Icelandic International Computer and Electronic music festival which was held at Salurinn in Kópavogur.

Musical Director for the Icelandic Dance Company's performance of "Milli Heima" by Katrín Hall.

Course Teacher on the creative use of sound in art, film and multimedia at Borgarholts College in Reykjavík.

As composer, performer, producer (selected works)

Daisy Hill Puppy Farm: 7" (Lakeland Records 1988)

Daisy Hill Puppy Farm: Spraycan 12" (Lakeland Records 1989)

HAM: Saga Rokksins 1988-1993 (Nordisk Musik Disk 1993)

HAM: Lengi Lifi (Smekkleysa 1994)

HAM: Dauður Hestur (Skífan 1995)

Lhooq: Lhooq (Echo 1998)

Dip: Hi-Camp Meets Lo-Fi (Smekkleysa 1999)

Emilíana Torrini: Love in the Time of Science (One Little Indian 1999)

Works by Hljómúrinn on Kitchen Motors 1999: Nart Nibbles (Kitchen Motors 1999)

Hilmar Jensson, Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson, Jóhann Jóhannsson and the CAPUT-ensemble: Veltipunktur on Motorlab 1 (Kitchen Motors/Smekkleysa 2000)

Andrew Mckenzie and Jóhann Jóhannsson with Curver: "Telefónía" on Motorlab 1 (Kitchen Motors/Smekkleysa 2000)

"Nafnlaust Uppklapp" by Apparat Organ Quartet on Nart Nibbles (Kitchen Motors/Ómi 2001)

3 songs by Apparat Organ Quartet on Motorlab II (Kitchen Motors/Smekkleysa 2000)

Ham: Skert Flog (Hitt 2001)

Marc Almond: "Stranger Things" album. (IIIX Bis Records/Universal 2001)

Awards

First prize for Best Original Score for "Varmints" at the Rhode Island International Film Festival 2008.

External links

Johann Johannsson.com - Official website

Biography of Johann Johannsson at Touch Music

Kitchen Motors.com - Johann Johannsson's record label

Beggars.com - The biography, discography and promotional photos.

References

Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Icelandic film score composers Category:Icelandic musicians

Name	David Tibet
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	David Michael Bunting
Born	March 05, 1960
Origin	England
Genre	Apocalyptic folk, Neofolk
Label	Durtro, Jnana, Coptic Cat
Associated acts	Current 93, Death in June
Url	www.copticcat.com, www.jnanarecords.com

David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March 1960 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo. He was given the name "Tibet" by Genesis P-Orridge, and in January 2005 he announced that he would revert to the name David Michael, although he continues to use the well-known "Tibet" in his public career to date.

Career

Tibet left Psychic TV in 1983 and founded Current 93 the same year. He has worked with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound (of which band he is a member), Michael Cashmore, Douglas P. (of Death In June, on whose albums he has appeared several times), Steve Ignorant of Crass (using the name "Stephen Intelligent"), Boyd Rice, Little Annie, Björk, Nick Cave, Rose McDowall, and Ian Read of Fire and Ice.

Influences

Tibet's lyrical subject matter reflects a consistent preoccupation with all aspects of apocalypse. He has long been a student of Christian eschatology. At a precocious age, he developed a strong interest in Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis. He joined the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis and borrowed the term "93 Current", the current of Thelema or Agape, from Crowley. His initial recording as Current 93, LAShTAL, was, according to Tibet, "the invocation of Malkunofath on the Nightside of Eden, the reverse of the Tree of Life". He has long proclaimed a virtual anathema to Crowleyism (despite a strong appreciation for Crowley as an individual) and instead has embraced at various intervals, Tibetan Buddhism and esoteric Christianity. His projects continue to focus on the multifaceted aspects of apocalypse, mainly death, loss and destruction. Progressively, his works are tempered by Christian mysticism and an increasingly strong faith in the end of the world.

Other influences include Noddy, Gnosticism. Austin Osman Spare, Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Bobby Beausoleil, and a variety of occult topics.

In April 2006, Ordo Templi Orientis formed the International OTO Cabinet, an advisory, non-voting panel made up of both OTO Initiates and Non-Initiates. David Tibet was named among the initial non-member appointments.

Other activities

He is an established Outsider artist and painter with much of his work in well-known galleries such as the Henry Boxer Gallery and Isis Gallery. Tibet is interested in the work of Count Stenbock, whose writings he has worked to republish. He also ran the Durtro publishing imprint and record label (1988–2010) which has since been replaced by an earlier label, Coptic Cat, where many Durtro releases continue to be available. He attended Newcastle University.

References

Further reading

Keenan, David (2003) England's Hidden Reverse: a secret history of the esoteric underground, London: SAF Publishing.

Free Tibet (Death In June album)

External links

Tibet's personal website

Tibet's Coptic Cat label, features weblog style news from Tibet

Jnana Records

Photo and list of "Involvements"

Recordings

Interview with FluxEuropa, April, 1997

1997 Interview with 'The Wire' magazine

Isis Gallery Presents David Tibet

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