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Cornelius: Fantasma

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On August 6, 1997, “Trattoria” label released “Fantasma”, the third Cornelius studio album. It was recorded in 1997, and was produced by Keigo Oyamada.

Personnel:

  • Keigo Oyamada (credited as “The Ape”) – performance, arrangements
  • Kazumichi Fujiwara – vocals
  • Sean O’Hagan – banjo, sampler, chorus
  • Toyoaki Mishima – keyboards
  • Robert Schneider – vocals, bass
  • Hilarie Sidney – vocals, drums
  • Yoshié Hiragakura – drums
  • Kinbara Strings – strings
  • Moog Yamamoto – scratching
  • Yuki Yano – theremin 
  • Keigo Oyamada – mixing
  • Toyoaki Mishima – hard disk manipulation
  • Nakai-kun – assistance
  • Toru Takayama – mixing, engineer
  • Masakazu Kitayama – artwork
  • Mitsuo Shindō – artwork
  • Hiroshi Nomura – photography
  • Yumi Nakamura – styling
  • Akemi Nakano – styling
  • Hiroko Umeyama – styling

Track listing:

All tracks by Keigo Oyamada, except where noted.

  1. Mic Check
  2. The Micro Disneycal World Tour
  3. New Music Machine
  4. Clash
  5. Count Five or Six
  6. Magoo Opening (originally titled Monkey) – Dennis Farnon
  7. Star Fruits Surf Rider
  8. Chapter 8 – Seashore and Horizon – Keigo Oyamada, Robert Schneider, Hilarie Sidney
  9. Free Fall
  10. 2010
  11. God Only Knows
  12. Thank You for the Music
  13. Fantasma

The Apples In Stereo: Yep Roc

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On February 6, 2007, “Simian”, “Elephant 6” and “Yep Roc” labels released “New Magnetic Wonder”, the sixth Apples in Stereo studio album. It was recorded in 2006, at “Trout Studios” in Brooklyn, New York, in Lexington, Kentucky, in Denver, Colorado,
in Benton, Kentucky, and was produced by Bryce Goggin and Robert Schneider.

Personnel:

  • Robert Schneider – lead and backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, acoustic and electric piano, organ, synthesizer, mellotron, vocoder, electronic effects, percussion, handclaps, bass guitar, non-Pythagorean music scale
  • Hilarie Sidney – lead and backing vocals, drums, percussion, handclaps, rhythm guitar
  • Eric Allen – bass guitar, echoplex, space guitar, handclaps, backing vocals,
  • John Hill – rhythm guitar, phase shift, handclaps, backing vocals
  • Anonymous studio musicians – Mellotron tape banks.
  • Per Ole Bratset – lead guitar, sound effects
  • Bill Doss – piano fun, acoustic guitar, handclaps, backing vocals, vocal arrangement
  • Will Cullen Hart – drums, electronic effects, handclaps, backwards poetry, plastic whistle, backing vocals
  • Otto Helmuth – mandolin, handclaps, backing vocals
  • Jeff Holland – lap steel, echoplex
  • London audience – anger due to Apples’ overly-loud guitars
  • Jeff Mangum – drums, cow object, backing vocals, handclaps
  • John Fernandes – bass clarinet, violins
  • Craig Morris – lead and backwards guitar, Mellotron, fuzz bass
  • Adam Sachs – cowbell, tambourine
  • Zack Shaw – alto sax, weird toys, echoplex
  • Pete Fitzpatrick – euphonium
  • Bryce Goggin – electronic effects
  • John Ferguson – backing vocals
  • Matthew Goodman – backing vocals
  • Tony Miller – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks written by Robert Schneider except where noted.

Disc 1:

  1. Can You Feel It? – co-written by Bill Doss
  2. Skyway
  3. Mellotron 1
  4. Energy
  5. Same Old Drag
  6. Joanie Don’t U Worry
  7. Sunndal Song – Hilarie Sidney
  8. Droplet
  9. Play Tough
  10. Sun is Out
  11. Non-Pythagorean Composition 1
  12. Hello Lola
  13. 7 Stars
  14. Mellotron 2

Disc 2:

  1. Sunday Sounds – Hilarie Sidney
  2. Open Eyes
  3. Crimson
  4. Pre-Crimson – Eric Allen
  5. Vocoder Ba Ba
  6. Radiation
  7. Beautiful Machine Parts 1-2
  8. Beautiful Machine Parts 3-4
  9. My Pretend
  10. Non-Pythagorean Composition 3

Olivia Tremor Control: Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle

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On August 6, 1996, “The Elephant 6” and “Flydaddy” labels released “Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle”, the debut Olivia Tremor Control studio album. It was recorded 1993 – 1996 and was produced by Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, W. Cullen Hart, Eric Harris, and John Fernandes.

Personnel:

  • Bill Doss– vocals, instrumentation, artwork, design
  • Cullen Hart– vocals, instrumentation, artwork, design
  • Eric Harris – vocals, instrumentation
  • John Fernandes– vocals, instrumentation

The Elephant 6 Orchestra:

  • Robert Schneider– vocals, Tibetan prayer board, bass, melodica, engineering
  • Jeff Mangum– vocals, chanter pipe, slide guitar, melodica, piano, and space bubbles
  • Julian Koster– bowed electric and mallet struck acoustic guitar, the singing saw
  • Steve Jacobek – trumpet
  • Rick Benjamin – trombone

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Doss, W. Cullen Hart, Eric Harris, and John Fernandes.

  1. The Opera House
  2. Frosted Ambassador
  3. Jumping Fences
  4. Define a Transparent Dream
  5. No Growing (Exegesis)
  6. Holiday Surprise 1, 2, 3
  7. Courtyard
  8. Memories of Jacqueline 1906
  9. Tropical Bells
  10. Can You Come Down with Us?
  11. Marking Time
  12. Green Typewriters
  13. Green Typewriters
  14. Green Typewriters
  15. Green Typewriters
  16. Green Typewriters
  17. Green Typewriters
  18. Green Typewriters
  19. Green Typewriters
  20. Green Typewriters
  21. Green Typewriters
  22. Spring Succeeds
  23. Theme for a Very Delicious Grand Piano
  24. I Can Smell the Leaves
  25. Dusk at Cubist Castle
  26. The Gravity Car
  27. NYC-25

The Apples in Stereo: Travellers in Space and Time

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On April 20, 2010, “Simian Records” label released “Travellers in Space and Time”, the seventh  Apples in Stereo (The) studio album. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, and was produced by Robert Schneider and Bryce Goggin.

Personnel:

  • Robert Schneider– lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar,  mellotron, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, vocoder, engineer
  • John Dufilho– lead and backing vocals, bass, drums, percussion, electric guitar, handclapping, sound effects, synthesizer, engineer
  • Bill Doss– lead and backing vocals, cowbell, acoustic guitar,  handclapping, mellotron, melodica, electric piano, synthesizer
  • Eric Allen– bass guitar, electric guitar, handclapping, backing vocals, engineer,
  • John Ferguson– lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, handclapping, mellotron, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, vocoder
  • Craig Morris – acoustic guitar, drums
  • Dave Schneider – acoustic guitar
  • Dan Sjogren – baritone saxophone
  • Rick Benjamin, Rob Christiansen – trombone
  • Merisa Bissinger – flute, piccolo
  • Russ Farnsworth – spoken word
  • Dave Ferris – tabla
  • Heather McIntosh – cello
  • Roger Gerguson, Christin Helmuth, Otto Helmuth – backing vocals
  • Kevin Brown, Roger Ferguson, Adam Sachs – engineer
  • Bryce Goggin – electronic effects, engineer, eixing
  • Otto Helmuth, Merritt Jacob – engineer assistant
  • Craig Morris – engineer assistant, mixing
  • Fred Kevorkian – mastering
  • Paul Stec, Carolyn Suzuki – design, layout
  • Rebecca Turbow – illustrations
  • Dan Efram – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Schneider, except where noted.

  1. The Code
  2. Dream About the Future
  3. Hey Elevator
  4. Strange Solar System
  5. Dance Floor
  6. P.U.
  7. No One in the World
  8. Dignified Dignitary – Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, John Hill
  9. No Vacation – Robert Schneider, John Ferguson
  10. Told You Once
  11. It’s All Right
  12. Next Year at About the Same Time – Eric Allen
  13. Floating in Space – John Dufilho
  14. Nobody But You
  15. Wings Away – Bill Doss, John Ferguson
  16. Time Pilot

Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island

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On March 26, 1996, “Merge Records” label released “On Avery Island”, the debut Neutral Milk Hotel album. It was recorded February–May 1995, at “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.” and “Dane and Merisa’s House” except “Marching Theme” -June 1994, and was produced by Robert Schneider.

Personnel:

  • Jeff Mangum – vocals, guitar, drums, bells, xylophone, air organ, keyboards, tapes, design
  • Robert Schneider- air organs, home organs, fuzz bass, xylophone, horn arrangements
  • Lisa Janssen – fuzz bass
  • Steven Zhu – violin, flute, backing vocals
  • Kelsea Giannini – accordion, bells
  • Rick Benjamin -trombone
  • Merisa Bissinger,Hilarie Sidney, Zachary DeMichele, Dane Terry, Lisa Janssen, Aaron Reedy, and Jeff Mangum  – various Indonesian instruments.
  • Robert Schneider – Horn arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Jeff Mangum, except where noted.

  1. Song Against Sex
  2. You’ve Passed
  3. Someone Is Waiting
  4. A Baby for Pree
  5. Marching Theme
  6. Where You’ll Find Me Now
  7. Avery Island/April 1st – Jeff Mangum and Robert Schneider
  8. Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
  9. Three Peaches
  10. Naomi
  11. April 8th
  12. Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye

Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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On February 10, 1998, “Merge Records” label released “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”, the second and final Neutral Milk Hotel studio album. It was recorded from July to September 1997, at “Pet Sounds Studio” in Denver, and was produced by Robert Schneider. ”NME” magazine ranked it at number 98th on its list of the “Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Jeff Mangum– vocals, guitar, bass guitar, organ, floor tom, tape, shortwave radio, art direction
  • Julian Koster– Wandering Genie organ, singing saw, bowed banjo, accordion, white noise
  • Jeremy Barnes– drums, organ
  • Scott Spillane– trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, euphonium, horn arrangements
  • Robert Schneider– piano, home organ, air organ, bass, backing vocals, horn arrangements
  • Laura Carter– zanzithophone
  • Rick Benjamin – trombone
  • Marisa Bissinger – saxophone, flugelhorn
  • Robert Schneider, Scott Spillane – horn arrangements
  • James Guyatt – percussion
  • Michelle Anderson – Uilleann pipes
  • Chris Bilheimer – art direction
  • Brian Dewan– illustrations

Track listing:

All tracks by Jeff Mangum, except where noted.

  1. The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
  2. The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three – Jeremy Barnes, Julian Koster, Jeff Mangum, Scott Spillane
  3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
  4. Two-Headed Boy
  5. The Fool – Scott Spillane, Robert Schneider
  6. Holland, 1945
  7. Communist Daughter
  8. Oh Comely
  9. Ghost
  10. Untitled
  11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two