Third Eye Foundation generally just Matt Elliott although first releases featured Debbie Manning/ Foehn.
Matt Elliott releases have featured Chris Cole (Manyfingers www.manyfingers.net); Cello, Most drums & occasional additional Drunken Voice.
Patricia Arguelles Martinez; Violins.
Sabine Chaouch; Additional Vocals.
Nick Weber; Cellos.
Aurelien Potier; (listen to 'etre ciel' if you can) Clarinet, Cello, Double bass, & many other bits & pieces
Nicolas Dick (Kill the Thrill) additional guitars.
Marcus Dyer; Engineering/arrangements.
Live is generally Matt Elliott; (Vocals/Guitar/techy bollocks).
but on rare occasions features Patricia Arguelles Martinez (Violin), Valerie Leqlerc ((piano)(Half Asleep) Bertrand Groussard (drums)various projects including Encre), Carla Pallone ((violin)(Mansfield TYA), Jerome de Pasquale ((trumpet)(various projects) Benjamin Jarry (Cello)
Honorary member Vania Zouravliev. although not a musical memeber, the artist responsible for a lot of the artwork of Third Eye Foundation, Drinking Songs &. Failing Songs, He is in my opinion the greatest contemporary artist. His myspace page can be seen in my top friends. I have had great priveledge to work with the above aswell as many other very talented musicians & artists.
Influences
Bill Hicks, Favourite records of my youth included Corpses As Bedmates 'Venus Handcuffs' (Now rereleased on CD by Recommended Records as artist Venus Handcuffs. check the profile in my top friends), Current 93 (especially Live at Bar Maldoror & Imperium), Tuxedomoon 'Ghost Sonata' Early Factory Records aswell as literally thousands of records & musicians over the years. Gained a musical education working for 10 years in Revolver Records in Bristol, the last of a now sadly dead breed of independant record shops owned by an true music lover & expert, in this case Roger Doughty who knows more about recorded music than anyone I have met before or since (with the possible exception of John Peel but it would be a close run thing).
some of the things on my generic mp3 player at the moment.
More & More Classical music, Quickspace supersport 'The Death of Quickspace' (a criminally underrated album), The Sighs 'Trawl', Directorsound 'Redemptive Strikes', Venus Handcuffs, Funkadelic various albums, Jacques Brel, Jah Stitch, Sly & the Family Stone 'There's a Riot Goin on', Sun Ra 'Strange Celestial Road, some mental ragga, Tim Buckley, various albums, Tom Waits various albums, UNKLE 'The time has come remix EP', A Certain Ratio 'Sextet', Asa Chang & Junray, Babera, Coil, Josephine Foster 'A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing' Wu Tang/GZA/Ol Dirty
Sounds Like
Matt Elliott sounds like twisted slavic/european folk/electronica.
Third Eye Foundation did the whole Jungle/noise/soundtracky thing.
Improvised piece for piano for 'le cargo session 18' recorded at Glazart, Paris
The Kursk. Video by Sandrine Romet Lemonne
Chains, Udine recorded by Dan
Started in Flying Saucer Attack & Movietone, was an in house engineer & general dogsbody for Planet records. First Third Eye Foundation release Jan 96, on my own Linda's Strange Vacation Records. Then worked with Domino records up to & including the first Matt Elliott Release 2003. Now working with Ici D'ailleurs of France & Acuarela of Spain
Over the years have worked with various bands of various degrees of fame/infamy at various levels including remixes for Hood, The Sighs, Yann Tiersen, Mogwai, Blonde Redhead, Tarwater, The Remote Viewer, Thurston Moore, Navigator, The Pastels,
Engineering, collaborating & live sound for Hood, Teenagers in Trouble
pressing buttons in studios for Suncoil Sect, Gauge & a few other bits & pieces
more details www.thirdeyefoundation.com
Thanks for the add. Terrific works. A very great artist ! Je suis ton travail depuis longtemps, que ce soit sous ton nom ou au travers de Third Eye Foundation. I recommend everyone your music !
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