Jilli Dart: vox, 12 string, electric & resonator guitars, sitar guitar, banjo, dulcimer,
anything else with strings, keys
Sam Collin: (Tricky, Acetylene Hayes) drum & bass
Will Harrington: (Frank Zappa, UEM) loops, sax
Frank Horvat: keys, effects
Paulo Diaz: (Beck, Beastie Boys) upright bass
Stuart Casson: (Bad Brains) guitar
Rich Ploucher: (Sting) violin
Otis Smit: keys, beats
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 Bjork Kaki King Tim Buckley Jeff Buckley Bob Marley Cocteau Twins Marianne Faithfull Imogen Heap Nirvana The Police Neil Young Harry Nilsson Atmosphere Frodad Yes Face to Face Joy Division Sonic Youth The Pixies Joni Mitchell Frank Zappa Alice Cooper Ben Harper Elliot Smith Bruce Haack Franz Liszt John Zorn John Cage Jeff Healey Stone Roses Wolf Eyes Mazzy Star Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix My Bloody Valentine Joy Division Beatles The Who PIL Lou Reed Laurie Anderson Tom Waits Velvet Underground The Used Fripp & Eno Nico Rodrigo y Gabriela PJ Harvey Ulrich Schnauss Rocco Deluca Local H Eels Tori Amos Traffic Kiss Charlatans UK The Cure Gary Numan The Cars U2 Van Morrison Regina Spektor Silversun Pickups Jefferson Airplane Big Country Death Cab for Cutie Morphine Massive Attack Chemical Brothers Mike Watt Buzzcocks Tool Billy Squier Circle Jerks Red Hot Chili Peppers Stranglers Vincent Gallo Bob Dylan RATM Jane's Addiction Sly & the Family Stone Rolling Stones Johnny Cash Raconteurs Prodigy Urge Overkill Snow Patrol Thomas Dolby DEVO Crystal Method Peter Murphy Aerosmith Bauhaus NIN Morrisey QOTSA Beastie Boys Eurythmics Autolux Alice in Chains Sneaker Pimps New York Dolls Editors Nada Surf MC5 Buckethead The Stooges Black Flag Moby Ratt Sugar Cubes Oingo Boingo Queen Dead Kennedys George Clinton & P Funk Green Day Nick Drake Patti Smith ELO Smashing Pumpkins Rancid Deftones Oakenfold Elefant Supertramp Tom Petty Pat Benetar Cheap Trick Marvin Gaye Talking Heads Dead Milkmen Luscious Jackson Peaches Sleater Kinney Bad Brains Delfonics Triumph Joan Jett GNR Minutemen Peter Gabriel Secret Machines Rick James The Germs Mars Volta Social D Sinead O'Connor Basement Jaxx The Smiths The Fixx Velvet Revolver Siouxie & the Banshes Bow Wow Wow Stone Temple Pilots Fleetwood Mac Isaac Hayes The Carpenters White Stripes No Doubt Todd Rundgren Sarah McLachlan Husker Du Wilco James Brown Nina Simone The Tubes New Order Ohio Players Gene loves Jezebel Cypress Hill Aimee Mann Pennywise Ozzy Osbourne Deepak Outkast Psychadelic Furs INXS Carole King The Verve Ani Difranco Barry White Pearl Jam Foo Fighters Yeah Yeah Yeahs Rush Al Green The Faces Golden Earring - I'm sure I forgot some and will add more...
With her percussive tapping style, avant garde sound artist Jilli Dart improvises with various guitars and stringed instruments while manipulating the output through different effects. In the 3 years since Jilli started recording and performing, her musical style has evoked diverse and humbling comparisons, many she's heard of and a few she's been inspired to learn about...
Jilli's guitar style/sound has been compared to: Pink Floyd, Laurie Anderson, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Interpol, My Bloody Valentine, KMFDM, Orbital, Tangerine Dream, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Residents, Adrian Belew, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Hans Reichel, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Edgar Froese and Klaus Schulze. Her piano style has been described as sounding like "two people playing at the same time". Her vocal style/sound has been compared to: Annie Lennox, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Joan Osborne, Carole King, Annette Peacock, Luscious Jackson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Slits.
spacekitti has recorded and performed with some very talented musicians and has opened for and shared the stage with some great bands: Sea Wolf, Great Northern, Urge Overkill, John Doe, Buffalo Tom, Peaches, Nina Nastacia and Jim White, Sagittarians (Trail of Dead), Miss Derringer, Skyline Electric (DEVO), Iglu & Hartly and Ninja Academy.
spacekitti has performed at NXNE, Make Music NY, and clubs throughout LA: The Knitting Factory, The Key Club, The Cat Club, Tangier, Safari Sam's, Silverlake Lounge, The Joint, The Hive, Mr T's Bowl, il corral...
Recently spacekitti released the galaxy EP produced by Sam Collin (Tricky, Acetylene Hayes) on the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop list and named one of the best albums of 2007 by CREEM critic Jeffrey Morgan - avail on iTunes and CD Baby - Editor's Pick, performed at the Jeff Buckley Tribute at the Key Club, NXNE, live on Audition Booth KCSN 88.5 FM and at a benefit for killradio.org. After spacekitti shows people have said: "you played an entire show without playing one chord amazing", "that was the trippiest hour of my life" and "I haven't heard anything like that in 30 years, better than Pink Floyd".
CREEM critic Jeffrey Morgan named galaxy one of the best albums of 2007
Spacekitti - Galaxy (Dart) :: Spacekitti is Jilli Dart, and Jilli Dart 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.
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. Spacekitti is Jilli Dart. And Jilli Dart is the future of electronic sonic exotica.
The track starts with a sequencer and some swelling electronic sounds, then the beat comes in with a deep tone that sounds tribal, which is interesting because it's all electronically produced. The pan'ing of the rhythm--and faded trills--from left to right makes the track move with a force that seems centripetal. The vocals are mono-tone but have a sensual character to them that blends in well with the music. Spacekitti's name matches their sound and they're not your typical band. I would love to see a live show to watch the process that goes into making the sounds - Nice work! - Cobra, musicnation.com
