Matt Elliott (musician)

Matt Elliott is a guitarist and singer from Bristol, UK, who plays dark folk music. He also produced and recorded electronic music under the name The Third Eye Foundation.

Matt Elliott started recording with the band 'Linda's Strange Vacation', which included Kate Wright (Movietone) and Rachel Brook (Movietone/Flying Saucer Attack), around the time Wright and Brook formed Movietone, and Brook and Dave Pearce formed Flying Saucer Attack. Elliott would be a part time member of both bands.

He recorded 'Semtex', his first album under the name 'The Third Eye Foundation', and released it on his own label 'Linda's Strange Vacation' with the help of the fledgling Domino Records.

The next three albums proper were released on Domino Records in 1997, 1998 and 2000.

As Third Eye Foundation, Matt Elliott worked with bands including Hood, Yann Tiersen, Mogwai, Ulver, Tarwater, The Pastels, Navigator, Urchin, Suncoil Sect, Remote Viewer, Thurston Moore, primarily as a remixer. In 2001 a compilation of his remixes was released.

in 2003 he released his first album under his own name, 'The Mess we Made'.

The next three albums were released as a trilogy on French label 'Ici, d'ailleurs...'.

On Yann Tiersen's 2009 tour, Matt was support act, and later in the show was part of Yann's band onstage.

Discography

All recordings were released under the Third Eye Foundation name up to and including 2001's I Poo Poo on Your Juju, later recordings were released under Elliott's own name. 2010's The Dark was again released under The Third Eye Foundation.

Albums

• Semtex (1996, Linda's Strange Vacation)
• In Version (1996, Linda's Strange Vacation) - remixes of Flying Saucer Attack, Amp, Crescent, Hood.
• Ghost (1997, Domino Records)
• You Guys Kill Me (1998, Domino Records)
• Little Lost Soul (2000, Domino Records)
• I Poo Poo on Your JuJu (2001, Domino Records) - remixes of Yann Tiersen, Tarwater, Urchin, The Remote Viewer, Chris Morris, Blonde Redhead, Faultline and Glanta.
• The Mess We Made (2003, Domino Records)
• OuMuPo (2004, 0101 music) - 42 minute remix of Ici d'ailleurs back catalogue with a set of rules http://www.0101-music.com/oumupo.htm
• Drinking Songs (2005, Ici, d'ailleurs.../Acuarela Records)
• Failing Songs (2006, Ici d'ailleurs/Acuarela Records)
• Collected Works (2006, Domino Records) - combines Ghost, You Guys Kill Me and Little Lost Soul, plus extra tracks
• Howling Songs (2008, Ici d'ailleurs)
• Failed Songs (2009, Ici d'ailleurs)
• The Dark (2010, Ici d'ailleurs)

Singles

• Universal Cooler (1996, Planet Records)
• Semtex (1997, Domino Records)
• Stars Are Down (1997, 7" given away with Obsessive Eye magazine, split with KS Kollective)
• Sound of Violence (1997, Domino Records)
• There's No End in Sight (1998, Fat Cat Records, split with V/Vm)
• Fear of a Wack Planet (1998, Domino Records)
• In Bristol with a Pistol (1999, Domino Records)
• What Is It With You? (2000, Domino Records)
• Borderline Schizophrenic (2003, Domino Records)

External links

• www.thirdeyefoundation.com

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