Chris & Cosey

Chris & Cosey (since 2003 renamed Carter Tutti ) is a British band, founded in 1981 in the field of electronic pop music, with the demarcation of art music is difficult and not useful in a wide range.

History

In 1981, the British industrial band Throbbing Gristle disbanded. Two of its members, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Newby Carol ), a pair were also private, signed in the same year a record deal with Rough Trade Records for a duo under the name of Chris & Cosey.

In 1982, she founded, in collaboration with Rough Trade a private label called Conspiracy International, which occasionally occurs also under the name of CTI. Here more experimental recordings were subsequently published, which promised no major commercial success, as well as collaborations with other musicians and bands.

As of 1992, it restricted due to health problems temporarily their live performances a strong and devoted themselves increasingly working in the studio. At this time, there was also a collaboration of CTI with the label World Serpent Distribution. Through this connection, created numerous publication, often collaborations with other musicians and groups.

In 1998, she ended their phase almost exclusive studio work and went increasingly on tours.

From 2000, they released two new CD on CTI - Series: The Library of Sound ( LOS) and Electronic Ambient Remixes (EAR ). In both series (to date four albums are released ) is instrumental, ambient - oriented music. The GO series is specifically the accompaniment of art exhibitions, movie trailers, etc., but is also played live at concerts. In the publications of the EAR series is earlier solo pieces of Carter Tutti or that have been remixed together. In 2003 it was renamed by Chris & Cosey in Carter Tutti. The reason given was that due to a long-term development of the current concept with which the start time was no longer identical.

2004, a reunion of Throbbing Gristle took place. Nevertheless, Carter Tutti also continue to publish their own material.

Style

Her style is as already coined by Throbbing Gristle from a mixture of musique concrète and electronic music and here by a voltage ratio of electronically generated sounds, sampling, and rhythms usually generated by a drum machine on the one hand as well as acoustic, natural elements such as vocals, cornet guitar yields other.

Over the years there has been a continuous development of the band, so that over time many musical directions in the work of Carter Tutti collection held (see also meaning).

Collaborations

Throughout her career, worked C & C together with numerous well-known musicians and bands. A selection: Monte Cazazza, Coil, Current 93, John Duncan, Erasure, Eurythmics, Boyd Rice, Robert Wyatt.

Many artists have done remixes of pieces of ribbon, including: Carl Craig, Cosmic Connection, Fred Giannelli, of Mute Records founder Daniel Miller, U- Ziq, Vapourspace and Andrew Weatherall.

Importance

In many areas of electronic pop music Chris & Cosey takes a pioneering role with the corresponding impact to on later artists. So they were in the early 1980s, representatives of the techno and DJ scene and the Goa music. Their album trance was often sampled, the piece October Love Song is regarded as techno-pop classics and exotics became a hit Goa. Furthermore, they are now referred to as the creator of the modern Acid sounds.

Trivia

In an interview with the margins Magazine from 1997 they describe themselves as a group that makes electronic music with hypnotic elements
Chris and Cosey have a common son born in 1982 named Nick.
Chris Carter 's paternal related claims to be with Howard Carter, the discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamen.
In an interview with the Work in Progress Magazine of December 1993 they describe their music as subtle than those of Throbbing Gristle and justify this development as follows: " It's OK a nut with violence to crack, but then you can not go on and pulverized it with other hammer blows, right? [ ... ] TG were the Nutcracker. "
On the question of a Brazilian fanzines if they make pop music, they replied "We do not see ourselves as a pop band. Pop is something of which you have to take heed. [ ... ] It is considered that there the material has little significance. Ours is honest and soaked with the reality of our lives. It is something that we do not take lightly. We open ourselves and our views in our music. There is something very special when people like our music. For us money is incidental while in the pop music of the reason for this is that it exists at all. "
Both have often refused in interviews to talk about her private life. On their website is a kind of parody of the curiosity of the media a diary in which details of their artistic and private life are listed in telegram style.
Chris Carter writes for the sound engineer Sound On Sound magazine.
Both are supporters of neo-paganism.

Discography

The specified label is always the first publication, the numerous later editions by other labels are not mentioned for clarity. For solo albums, see the relevant article. Unless otherwise indicated, are LPs / CDs.

When Chris & Cosey