spacekitti

spacekitti's debut EP galaxy, produced by Sam Collin (Tricky, Tour de France) is on the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop list
and named one of the best albums of 2007 by CREEM critic/Alice Cooper/Iggy Pop bio writer Jeffrey Morgan on CREEMmagazine.com:
Spacekitti - Galaxy (Dart) :: "Spacekitti 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."
2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop list
Best albums of 2007 CREEMmagazine.com
Experimental sound artist Jill Ellisa (Jilli Dart) improvises with various guitars and stringed instruments while manipulating the output through different effects. To accompany her poems, Jill tried to learn the "proper" way of playing guitar and in the process, developed her percussive guitar tapping style which has evoked diverse and humbling comparisons.
Jill's guitar style/sound has been compared to: Laurie Anderson, Pink Floyd, early Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Jimmy Page, Adrian Belew/King Crimson, Interpol, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Sun Ra Arkestra and Terry Riley. Her vocal style/sound has been compared to: Annie Lennox, Marianne Faithfull, Nico and PJ Harvey.
spacekitti has opened for and shared the stage with some great bands: Urge Overkill, John Doe (X), Sea Wolf, Handsome Furs (Wolf Parade), Nina Nastacia and Jim White, Sagittarians (Trail of Dead), Skyline Electric (DEVO) and Ninja Academy (Rickie Lee Jones).
spacekitti has performed at: NXNE, Make Music NY, Wallflower Gallery Miami, the 2008 Artivist Film Fest at The Egyptian Theater, the 2007 Jeff Buckley Tribute benefiting Silver Lake Conservatory of Music, live on KCSN 88.5 FM's "Audition Booth with Martin Perlich", CalArts REDCAT Lounge and clubs throughout Los Angeles: The Knitting Factory, Key Club, Tangier, The Cat Club, Hyperion Tavern.
Recently, Jill signed a licensing agreement with Deadly Dreams Music, remixed Killing Time by Tunnelmental Experimenal Assembly and started mastering the upcoming internet release of the spacekitti singles LP.
Jeffrey Morgan's review of NXNE show and galaxy EP:
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.
- Jeffrey Morgan, Metro Times Detroit/CREEM
Jeffrey Morgan's Media Blackout: Why Spacekitti is lapping up the Milky Way
galaxy EP



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nobody cares on Dadaist Audio Comp



Jeff Buckley Tribute @ The Key Club



NXNE



Wallflower Gallery Miami