Ee (sometimes appearing as ee, EE, or eE) is an American,

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-based

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band, that formed in 1999 by former

Korea Girl Korea Girl was an American indie rock band from San Jose, California. The band's members included Elizabeth Yi on vocals and guitar, Tobin Mori on guitar, vocals, and keyboard, Summer on electric bass guitar and Marc Duarte on drums. The group re ...

guitarist/vocalist Tobin Mori and bassist Jay Chow/Che Chou. Earlier band members included Brian Gathy, Peter Newman, Susan Parker, and Thom Morrison, and were later replaced by Peter Nguyen on drums, and longtime

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member

Sooyoung Park Sooyoung Park (born 1967) is an American and South Korean singer-songwriter, best known for fronting the bands Bitch Magnet and Seam. In 1995 he co-founded Foundation of Asian American Independent Media, an art festival dedicated to showcasing ...

on lead guitar and keyboard. All members of Ee are

Asian-American Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous people ...

. They recorded their debut album, ''Ramadan'', in the fall of 1999 and released it on Currycore Records. After some lineup changes Ee released an EP and second album second album, ''For 100 We Try Harder'', on

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in 2002.

Discography

*''Ramadan'' (2001, Curry Records) *''Tinyspot'' EP (2002,

) *''For 100 We Try Harder'' (2002, Asian Man Records) *''Capital Plans'' (2006, Actually, Records)

References

External links

* Entry for Ee at Allmusic.com
Ee
on Myspace
"Ee: Another Asian Gangster Band? Tobin Mori talks about Showbiz and Indie Rock."
''Asianweek.com'' (March 9–15, 2001)
"Interview with Ee: Rock'n'Roll by 'Model Minority' "
''Koreanpop.org'' (June, 2002)
Mori's new shoegaze collaboration, Skycamp
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