CirKus are a

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band formed by Burt Ford (Cameron McVey), Karmil (aka Matt Kent), Lolita Moon and Neneh Cherry.

History

DJ and producer Karmil was recruited by Burt Ford (Neneh's husband

Cameron McVey Cameron Andrew McVey (born 11 March 1957) is an English singer, songwriter and music producer. He worked with the bands Massive Attack, Portishead, All Saints, Sugababes/ Mutya Keisha Siobhan and his wife Neneh Cherry. He is the father of ...

) as an assistant recording engineer. They began to work on their own material at Karmil's home studio in London. Ford was singing, then Karmil's girlfriend Lolita Moon (Neneh and Cameron's daughter Tyson) was asked to sing on some tracks. Eventually Neneh Cherry joined the team and performed rapped/sung vocals. Ford and Karmil convinced Cherry to move to Sweden and the band settled in Cherry's country house near

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and recorded their first album ''Laylow'', released in 2006. They are currently based between Stockholm and

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. ''Laylow'' received negative reviews from the BBC, stating it as "mostly uninspired and smoothed to an unpleasant sheen." The group released a second album, ''Medicine'', in France in March 2009.

Discography

Studio albums

Instruments used on stage

* Burt plays:

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X-Station The Novation X-Station is a virtual analog synthesizer, audio interface and MIDI controller that was released in early 2004, and made by the British company Novation. It is the end-result of adding an audio interface, a KS-class synthesizer an ...

and Kaoss Pad 2 * Lolita plays: Roland V-Synth (with its D-Beam system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and

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MPC * Karmil plays: Blueridge sunburst dreadnought acoustic guitar (Contemporary Series), Gibson Les Paul standard and a

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Berlin Pro V. * Both guitar and bass use line 6 pods. * Ableton Live is used to run triggered drum loops and samples

External links

CirKus
on Myspace

References