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Knox Chandler

Knox Chandler (born July 20, 1958) is an American musician. He is known primarily as a guitarist, but he also plays, cello, bass, and other instruments. He has worked extensively as a session musician.

Knox Chandler
Background information
Birth nameKnox Chandler
Born (1958-07-20) July 20, 1958 (age 66)
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
OccupationMusician
Instruments
  • Guitar
  • Cello
  • Bass

Education

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Chandler attended the Hammonasset School in Madison, CT and graduated from Bard College, in Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. He obtained a post-graduate certificate from the University of Sussex England from the British Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).

Career

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Chandler's career was launched in New York City's post punk/new wave era of the early 1980s. Aside from his career as an instrumentalist, he is known for his string arrangements and his compositional collaborations.

Chandler has worked with multiple artists and bands, including Depeche Mode on their album Exciter providing string arrangements, Lori Carson, The Golden Palominos,[1] the Psychedelic Furs, Ultra Vivid Scene, the Creatures, R.E.M., Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Cyndi Lauper.

Collaborations

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Chandler collaborated with Dave Gahan, of Depeche Mode, on his solo album Paper Monsters,[2] and played guitar during Gahan's 2003 Paper Monsters Tour in support of the album.[3]

He has also toured and collaborated with Eric Mingus, Bobby Previte; Chris Palmaro; Mars Williams; Maggie Estep;  He continues to work with Mingus, Previte and Williams.

Discography

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Artist Record Label Year Role
Gary Windo Deepwater Antilles/Island 1988 Producer, Composer, Guitar
The Psychedelic Furs Book of Days Columbia 1989 Guitar
The Psychedelic Furs World Outside Columbia 1991 Guitar, Cello
The Ancients The Ancients Mission Recording Company 1991 Cello
R.E.M Automatic for the People Warner 1992 Cello
Darden Smith Little Victories Chaos 1993 Guitar
Paula Cole Harbinger Imago 1994 Cello
Various Dangerous Inventions Futurist 1994 Guitar, Composer
Lee Aaron Emotional Rain A&M 1994 Guitar
David Wilcox Big Horizon A&M 1994 Guitar
Love Spit Love Love Spit Love Imago 1994 Composer
Blind Light Absence of Time Alida 1994 Guitar
Maggie Estep No More Mister Nice Girl Imago 1994 Cello
Monday Michiru Groovement Kitty Records 1994 Guitar
The Golden Palominos Pure Restless Records 1994 Guitar
Siouxsie and the Banshees Showgirls (film) Interscope 1994 Guitar
Gawk Gawd Invisible 1995 Guitar
Aceilux Forbidden Fruit Videoarts Music Inc. 1995 Guitar
Hal Hartley Amateur Soundtrack Matador 1995 Cello
Lori Carson Where It Goes Restless Records 1995 Guitar/Cello
Susan Werner Last of the Good Straight Girls Private Music 1995 Guitar/Cello
Stina Nordenstam & Anton Fier The Photographers Wife(film) East West 1996 Guitar
The Golden Palominos Dead Inside Restless Records 1996 Composer/Guitar
Parlor James Dreadful Sorry Discovery Records 1996 Guitar
Various: Divination Distill Sub Meta 1996 Guitar
Lori Carson Everything I Touch Runs Wild = Restless Records 1997 Guitar
Edgar Allan Poe Closed on the Account of Rabies Mercury 1997 Guitar
Maggie Estep Love is Dog From Hell Mouth Almighty Records 1997 Guitar, Bass, Cello, Producer, Composer
The Psychedelic Furs The Radio One Sessions Strange Fruit 1997 Guitar
Rule 62 Rule 62 Maverick 1997 Cello
Various Spaces: A Journey into Ambient Worlds Blind Light Rountrip Records 1997 Guitar
Willy Porter Falling Forward Six Degrees Records 1999 Cello, Guitar, Loops
Bree Sharp A Cheap and Evil Girl Trauma Records 1999 Bass
The Creatures Anima Animus Instinct Records 1999 Guitar, Bass, Mouth Harp
Natalie Merchant Lilith Fair, Volume 2 Arista Recorda 1999 Guitar
Miu Sakamoto Dawn Pink WEA 1999 Guitar
Dar Williams The Green World Razor and Tie 2000 Cello
Darden Smith Extra Dry Valley Entertainment Inc. 2000 Guitar
Puracane Things You Should Leave Alone Ubiquity 2000 Guitar
Anika Moa Thinking Room Atlantic 2001 Bass, Mandolin
Professional Murder Music Professional Murder Music Geffen 2001 Cello
Amanda Thorpe Mass Cropduster 2001 Guitar
Depeche Mode Exciter Reprise/Mute 2001 Cello, String Arrangement
Siouxsie and the Banshees The Seven Year Itch Sanctuary 2003 Guitar
Okuda Tamir E SME Records. 2002 Guitar
Darden Smith Sunflower Dualtone 2002 Guitar, Cello
Cyndi Lauper Shine Oglio Records 2002 Guitar, Cello, String Arrangement
Jesse Malin The Fine Art of Self Destruction Artemis Records 2003 Cello
Anton Fier Dreamspeed/Blind Light 1992–1994 Tzadik 2003 Guitar
Lori Carson Stolen Beauty Restless Records 2003 Guitar, Bass, Composer
Dave Gahan Paper Monsters Reprise/Mut 2003 Guitar, Bass, Cello, Dulcimer, Keyboards, Composer, Programming
Slang More Talk About Tonight Terminus Records 2004 Composer, Guitar
Siouxsie Sioux Dreamshow Rhino Records 2005 Guitar, Bass, Cello
Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have Low Altitude Records 2007 Guitar
Dave Gahan Live Monsters Mute 2007 Guitar
Emma Pollack Watch The Fireworks 4AD 2007 Guitar
Joy Askew The Pirate of Eel Pie Red Parlor records 2008 Guitar
Cyndi Lauper Bring Ya to the Brink Epic 2008 Guitar
London/Sklamberg Tsuker-zis Tzadik 2009 Guitar
Barbara Sukowa and the XPatsys Devouring Time Winter & Winter 2010 Guitar
Alan Abrahams Portable !K7 records 2016 Guitar, Bass
Porter Nickerson Bonfire To Ash Weasel Records 2016 Guitar
Rita Redshoes Her Universal 2016 String Arrangements, Guitar
Tau Tau Tau Tau Drones of Praise 2016 Guitar
Various I Never Metaguitar Four Clean Feed 2017 Composer, Guitar
Robot Vedgdbol Impression Recordings 2017 Guitar
Lissie Castles Lionboy Records 2018 Guitar
Jesper Munk Favorite Stranger Warner 2018 Guitar
Them There Love is An Elevator Sony 2018 Guitar, String Arrangements
Herbert Gronemeyer Tumult Grönland Records 2018 Guitar
Tau and the Drones of Praise Drones of Praise 2019 Guitar
Mars Williams Albert Tyler Xmas Live Show in Krakow Not Two Records 2019 Guitar
Robot Wedding Address Impression Recordings 2020 Guitar
Peaches AngelHeaded Hipster (TRex) BMG 2020 Guitar
Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea Inside Out Music 2020 String Arrangement
Kenichi and the Sun White Fire Radical Amazement 2021 Guitar
Peter Freeman K3CS Zoar Records 2022 Guitar

Personal

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In 2012, Chandler moved to Berlin and continued to tour with various musicians as well as becoming head of the guitar department at the British Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).[4] In 2022, he returned to the United States and now lives in Connecticut.

Chandler's father, also Knox Chandler, was a physiologist and scientific researcher at Yale University and his mother, Caroline Chandler is an artist.  He has a son, Miles Chandler with his ex-wife, Laura Bloom, an art dealer.

References

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  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (2003). The Great Indie Discography. Canongate. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Hoffman, Wayne (June 7, 2003). "Gahan makes solo bow". Billboard. p. 16. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  3. ^ "Dave Gahan". Pop Matters, Mike Prevatt, 08 Sep 2003
  4. ^ "Knox Chandler head of guitar". bimm.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2019
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