Marlo Eggplant
photo credit: James Sherman @HNW Fest in London. 6/13
Biography
Marlo Eggplant is a prominent figure in a thriving and diverse international scene of female experimental music performers. She currently resides in England and is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
As curator of the pioneering Ladyz in Noyz compilation series, an ongoing project from 2008 to the present, she has helped to foster this scene and continues to promote emerging artists from around the world on her record label Corpus Callosum. With an intuitive command of minimal instrumentation, including processed autoharp and contact microphones, Marlo Eggplant's sparsely structured notes and layered static textures build into sonically dense improvisations.
photo credit: Kieron Piercy at cafe v lese, in Prague, CZ.
Receiving childhood classical training in voice, guitar, piano, and cello, Marlo began her solo musical career in the 1990s favoring folk and punk, playing local coffee shops and arty hangouts as a teen. When she attended college in the Berkshires, she became more interested in avant garde and bizarre musics. A burst of raw creativity in the early 2000s brought the playful lo-fi pop experiments of the first recordings released under the name Marlo Eggplant, concurrent with her disjointed trance-like drumming as half of the deconstructionist rock duo Hazardous Guadalupe, and her co-founding of the Spleencoffin record label with Timothy Wisniewski in 2003.
She has toured the United States extensively and Europe, including the Victoria Noise fest (BC), Norcal Noisefest, Denver Noise Festival, Titwrench Festival, various locally curated satellite International Noise Conferences, and the extended programme at 2013 Colour Out of Space Festival (UK).
Discography
Releases: 2003 - Self-titled – audiocassette - on Spleencoffin (Baltimore, MD, USA)
2005 - Songs from the Garden -CDR- on Spleencoffin (Baltimore, MD, USA)
2009 - Untitled - Narshe /Marlo Eggplant Split - audio cassette on Corpus Callosum (USA/UK)
2009 - Marlo Eggplant for President- audio cassette on Scotch Tapes (Canada)
2009 - Untitled - MarloEggplant / Inbalso Split - audio cassette on Shark Bite Tapes (USA)
2010 - Internal / External -download on aphonia recordings (Seattle,WA, USA)
2010 - Binge/Purge - MarloEggplant/ Dental Work Split - CDR on Placenta Recordings (USA) and CorpusCallosum (USA/UK)
2010 - Split Fight 005 - Nryy/ Marlo Eggplant / To-Bo / Jerking Off Coma Patients - download on IndustrialNoise Records (Germany)
2011 - 2011 - CDR on Corpus Callosum (USA/UK)
2011 - Untitled - Chefkirk /Marlo Eggplant Split - CDR on Control Valve (Eugene, OR USA)
2012 - Making Meal With Marlo Eggplant - CDR and download on obsedante! (Czech Republic)
2012 - Crisis As Opportunity- audio cassette and download- on Control Valve (Eugene, OR USA)
2012 - After The Storm - download on Ilse Music (USA)
2013 - 6.13.13 - audio cassette. tour limited edition of 30 on Corpus Callosum and audio cassette and download re-release on Personal Archives (USA)
Compilations: 2004 - V/A - Happy Holidays from sPLeeNCoFFiN and Friends on Spleencoffin (USA)
2008 - V/A - Spleencoffin presents: Ladyz in noyz on Spleencoffin (USA)
2010 - V/A - Ghoul Poon Presents: Do the Fright Thing Vol. 3 on Ghoul Poon (USA)
2010 - V/A - "Impetus Vol. 2 on Meziprostor and Puzzle Records (Czech Republic)
2011 - V/A - "Implacable Unthing" on Naboa (USA)
2011 - V/A - "Noise Warning: 2011 Norcal Noisefest Audio Compilation" – CD on NorCal NoiseFest (USA)
2011 - V/A - Ladyz In Noyz: An Addendum – CD on Corpus Callosum
2011 - V/A - Exquisite Corpse Audio Chain Letter, Volume 2" (December 23, 2011), · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 143 (8:13, 7.5 MB, 128 kbps mp3) · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 145 (8:15, 7.6 MB, 128 kbps mp3) · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 147 (8:20, 7.6 MB, 128 kbps mp3) · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 148 (5:53, 5.4 MB, 128 kbps mp3) · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 149 (7:54, 7.2 MB, 128 kbps mp3) · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 160 (7:40, 7 MB, 128 kbps mp3)
2012 - V/A - "Exquisite Corpse Audio Chain Letter, Vol. 5" ] (January 16, 2012), · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 388 (8:22, 7.7 MB, 128 kbps) · ExquisiteCorpse Audio Chain Letter 389 (7:08, 6.5 MB, 128 kbps)
2012 - V/A - Praisin' & Hell Raisin'; A Benefit forLCM Collective on LCM (USA)
2012 - V/A - Lazer Lizard Records Compilation Volume 1 (USA)
Links:
marlo eggplant facebook: http://www.facebook.com/marloeggplantmusic
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/marlo-eggplant/
