David Edmund Turin (born 8 September 1965), known as Emit Bloch, is an American

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

and

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Background

Emit Bloch is a singer, songwriter and musician known for

field recordings Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It also applies to sound recordings like electromagnetic fields or vibrat ...

and lo-fi music production. His parents are George L. Turin, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, and Helen Elizabeth Turin, the daughter of a Utah cattle rancher. Bloch was raised in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...

, as well as

Layton, Utah Layton is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 81,773, with 2022 estimates showing a slight increase to 84,665. Layto ...

, and is related to

Christopher Layton Christopher Layton (March 8, 1821 – August 7, 1898) was a Mormon colonizer and Patriarch who founded the cities of Kaysville, Utah; Layton, Utah; and Thatcher, Arizona. Layton, Utah, is named after him. Life Layton was born at Thorncote Gree ...

, a prominent 19th Century Mormon pioneer.

Career

Bloch has issued several notable collections, with his 2010 release '' Dictaphones Vol. 1'' garnering 5/5 stars in

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, the magazine calling Bloch an "exceptional songwriter" and the release "utterly remarkable", as well as frequent radio play on BBC stations when it was issued on One Little Independent records. London's '' The Sun'' called the record "...fresh, vital, uncluttered and brilliant" and awarded it 4.5/5 stars. The subsequent digital EP, "Dorothy," included some studio versions of songs on '' Dictaphones Vol. 1'' and received UK-wide acclaim when it was selected by

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as "Hot Download of the Week" and its eponymous single was championed by

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and several other mainstream BBC DJs. In 2000, Bloch wrote and recorded the occult Milla Jovovich, ''

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'', for his internet imprint Peopletree, an early example of internet marketing. The largely field recorded release was chosen as the "Pop CD of the Week" and given 4/5 stars by the newspaper ''

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'', which stated that the record was "so barking, it's great". In the late 1990s, Bloch co-founded the experimental jamming band

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with

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drummer

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, Minutemen bassist Mike Watt,

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' keyboardist

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and

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guitarist

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and co-produced

, the band's first release for

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with Perkins and

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. Bloch met Perkins when working with Perry Farrell to develop ''Teeth'', an early, internet-based music and film project funded by

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. On Nov. 15, 2022 Bloch issued Emit Bloch: Rock, a third album-length collection of songs recorded with a band and featuring performances by

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as well as longtime collaborator David Peters. The album was released on the imprint TFFTT, located in

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. In 2022, TFFTT also released a collection of B-Sides, Emit Bloch: Canteen and an Xmas song, Emit Bloch: "I Misspelled Santa 'Satan'.

Discography

* ''

'' (

) 1997 * ''

'' 1998 (Cherry Red) * ''Bouncy Castle'' (Peopletree) 2000 - ''out of print'' * ''Sexy Religion'' Falafelelf (Peopletree/iDot/One Little Indian) 2001 * ''Swing'' Falafelelf (Peopletree/iDot/One Little Indian) 2003 * ''Monsta'' (

One Little Indian One Little Independent Records (formerly One Little Indian Records) is an English independent record label. It was set up in 1985 by members of various anarcho-punk bands, and managed by former Flux of Pink Indians bassist Derek Birkett. In ...

) 2006 * ''Dictaphones Vol.1'' (Lost Dogs/One Little Indian) 2010 * ''Collectives Vol.2'' (AWAL) 2018 * ''Rocks'' (TFFTT/AWAL) 2022 * ''Canteen'' {TFFTT/AWWAL) 2022

References

External links

BBC Radio Emit Bloch Page

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Records
Lollapalooza Teeth Project
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