Chris Schlarb
Experimental / Jazz / Folk
Long Beach, California
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About
Chris Schlarb is a musician and writer living in Long Beach, California. In the late 1990's he co-founded the free form ensemble Create (!) and founded record label/film house Sounds Are Active.
Chris has written about music and literature for Sound Collector Audio Review, L.A. Record, Dailysonic, Bandoppler, The Topeka-Capital Journal, and LAist.com.
After producing the jazz-folk public domain album Liz Janes & Create (!) for Asthmatic Kitty Records, Chris formed the free jazz/drone duo I Heart Lung with drummer Tom Steck in 2004. The group soon toured the country alongside Castanets and Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice and released a limited edition 12" with Castanets.
In 2006 Chris produced and released the Sean Carnage directed film 40 BANDS/80 MINUTES! which Ann Powers of the L.A. Times described as "frenetic... the spirit of this über-independent effort can't be denied." The film featured then little known bands HEALTH, Wives (No Age), Gowns and Abe Vigoda as well as Schlarb's own duo I Heart Lung.
In 2007 Chris released the first album under his own name, Twilight & Ghost Stories, a massive five-year work with over forty collaborating musicians including Sufjan Stevens, Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors, Half-Handed Cloud, Mick Rossi, Walter Kitundu, Languis, Ray Raposa, Sebastian Krueger and others.
He is currently signed to the Asthmatic Kitty record label.
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Feb 5, 2009
Some Assembly Required
This past Sunday afternoon I spent a few hours picking up last minute accessories for the upcoming performance of Twilight & Ghost Stories: plug adapters, electric cables, miniature light switches and bulbs. My luggage hardly consists of a "musical instrument" in the …
Jan 18, 2009
Interoceans (Album)
From 2005 to 2008 I worked with drummer Tom Steck to create an album of dynamic, unpredictable compositions. We released the album, Interoceans, under the name I Heart Lung. Distantly rooted in jazz, ambient and African music, the music is layered with Indian, and …
Jan 16, 2009
Shadow Company (Documentary Score)
In February of 2006, documentary filmmaker Nick Bicanic was putting the finishing touches on his expose of the flourishing mercenary economy in Iraq. He had already assembled an impressive film with an outstanding soundtrack that included tracks from Madvillian, …
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