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Honeychild Coleman

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Louisville, Kentucky native Carolyn "Honeychild" Coleman is an American vocalist and guitarist based in New York City since 1993. She composes and performs indie rock, electronic and dub reggae music. Her debut album Halo Inside (Come la Luna) was produced between her apartment in Brooklyn, NY and Ferrara Italy by Italian producer Max Stirner. This album also features guest appearances and collaborations by The Mad Professor, Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, Gregor Asche AKA DJ Olive of we™ and Liminal, MC Natureboy Jim Kelly™ (AKA Nosaj of New Kingdom), French dub artist and producer Molecule, and I DUB NY featuring legendary reggae producer Lloyd Bullwackie Barnes.

Subway busking, and weekly sets with DJs Olive (we™ /Liminal), Sasha Crnobrnja AKA Inflagranti , Lloop(we™), Delmar (Liquid Sky), Fred Ones (Mike Ladd/Sonic Sum) and Badawi (Raz Mesinai) and contributed to the unique niche that Coleman created within the underground electronic scene of the mid-90's. Her club-to-studio path led to recording with we™ (whose set she gate-crashed at Le Fin de Siecle Festival in Nantes, France), Badawi, Sasha Crnobrnja (Codek), Spectre (whose film "Crooked" she appears in), Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar Arkestra (electric dulcimer), Shiner Massive Soundsystem, Death Comet Crew(feat. Rammellzee), Apollo Heights (vocals on TV on The Radio's Dave Sitek's remix of "Disco Lights" and their cover of House of Love's "Christine"), and Italian electronic group HERE: Jim "Phylr" Coleman(Cop Shot Cop), M.Teho Teardo (Matera / Meathead) and Matteo Dainese (DEJLIGT/ Jitterbugs /Meathead / Ulan Bator), with whom she toured Italy three times.

From 1998 onward Honeychild has also balanced fronting her own alt-rock band (singing/writing/playing guitar), organizing "riott" shows with fellow Sistagrrls & "Afropunk" documentary artists (Simi / Suffrajett, Maya Goddess,Tamar-kali) all over NYC's East Village (3 Riotts at CBGB's, R.I.P.), opening for Cibo Matto, Rasputina, Radio 4, Mike Ladd, Sarah Dougher, Beans, Imani Coppola and TV on The Radio, releasing CDs on her bedroom label 8RM Records Brooklyn (USA), playing and touring (2nd guitar) with Apollo Heights (US / UK / Europe) and spinning records as DJ Sugarfree BK. Solo experimental sets at DJ Olive and Toshio K's Pheno_mena(Tonic) led to shows at Sin-e, Rooftop Films, and SHARE, a D.I.Y. tour of Europe at the Wooshi-Wooshi and Cable Records festivals (Barcelona), The OskarvonMillerStrasse Gallery/Performance space (Frankfurt) and ultimately opening for Peaches at the CO-OP Club (Berlin) before returning home to perform during the 2003 AIM 23 Opening at the Bronx Museum. Subject of music documentaries "Fireflies" (Austria) and "Afropunk" (USA), Coleman's compositions also appear in Robin Wright Penn's "Sorry Haters " (IFC), award-winning "P.R" (Greece/UK), and in art quarterly ESOPUS 7 (USA).

In Spring of 201 Honeychild Coleman toured with legendary all female punky reggae UK group The Slits as the sole guitarist.

She is currently the bass player of Brooklyn post punk outfit Pollen (NYC) and a member of avant noise group UFO Confidential alongside Apollo Heights front man Daniel Chavis and Kelsey Warren of Pillow Theory.

DISCOGRAPHY

STUDIO ALBUMS: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bereket Window 8 song ep CD (2011 InvisibleGirl Records - UK)

Halo Inside (Come la Luna) CD (2009 Matteite + Infecta Suoni Affini / Venus - ITALY and iTunes)

INDEPENDENT ALBUMS AND EPS: __________________________________________________________________________

Honeychild feat. Bandroidz - Sistagrrl Riott! at The Cooler CD (1998 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Honeychild Presents The Reddish Brown One CD (1998 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Mutual Likeage CD (1999 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Black Girl With Blue Hair CD (2001 8RM Brooklyn USA)

In Like A Lion / Tuesday (My Monday)DOUBLE EP (2007 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Fina Alla Sera EP (1998 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Everything Is Everything EP (2000 8RM Brooklyn USA)

The Salt EP (2003 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Astors 2 EP (2003 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Disconnected Dream EP (2002 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Hidden Tracks CD (2003 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Demo (lish)2001 EP (2004 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Callus EP / DVD (2005 8RM Brooklyn USA)

Heelspur Whisper CD (2007 8RM Brooklyn USA)

ALSO APPEARS ON:

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1996 Badawi Presents The Bedouin Soundclash Featuring Honeychild (ROIR) vocals and songwriting: Suspicions, Lack of Oxygen To The Brain, Snakecharmer

1997 United Gruvs "Downbeat Divas 2" (JAPAN) Badawi feat. Honeychild - "Snakecharmer"

1997 we™ " as is" (Asphodel) vocal samples

1998 HERE "Apart" EP (C.P.I. / SONICA / MERCURY) Italy vocals on title track and remix

1998 HERE "Brooklyn Bank" (C.P.I. / SONICA / MERCURY) Italy + (INVISIBLE / MERCURY / POLYGRAM)US vocals: Apart, Coatless, Pain

1999 Spectre "The End" (Wordsound) vocals / songwriting: "The Last Time"

1999 HERE "A Bit of Red" EP (C.P.I. / SONICA / MERCURY) Italy vocals: Rocket USA

1999 Phylr "Halflife" (Invisible / Mercury / Polygram) vocals: "Turn and Smile"

1999 Tribute To Ministry "Wish You Were Queer" (INVISIBLE / MERCURY / POLYGRAM)US HERE: "Lay lady, Lay" (Bob Dylan via Ministry cover) vocals

1999 we™ "The Square Root of Negative One" CD (Asphodel) vocal samples

2001 Raz Mesinai "The Unspeakable" Soundtrack (B.S.I.) vocals / sound effects

2001 Badawi "Soldier of Midian" (ROIR) electric dulcimer: 2 tracks

2003 Badawi "Clones and False Prophets" (ROIR) vocals "The False Prophets" vocals and songwriting "Confusion"

2003 Shiner Massive Soundsystem (Slash / Bigg Massive) vocals "White Rabbit" ([Jefferson Airplane]] cover)

2003 Spectre "Psychic Wars" (Wordsound) vocals and songwriting: "Secrets"

2006 Black Rock Coalition 20th Anniversary "Rock' N' Roll Reparations" Honeychild Coleman - "Spit at It"

2007 Molecule - "Molecule in Dub"(EP Sounds Around) vocals / songwriting - Track: "Orange"

2007 Dejligt - "Feed The Dog" (MATTEITE / VENUS) vocals - Feed The Dog, Spiderman, Beat The Gong

2007 Apollo Heights - White Music For Black People (MANIMAL VINYL) vocals - "Disco Lights" and "Christine" (House of Love cover)

2010 ([Smith Westerns]) - Dye It Blonde (FAT POSSUM) backing vocals - "All Die Young"

2010 ([The ReAver]) - "Just For Tonight" backing vocals