CirKus are a trip hop band formed by Burt Ford (Cameron McVey), Karmil (aka Matt Kent), Lolita Moon and

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History

DJ and producer Karmil was recruited by Burt Ford (Neneh's husband Cameron McVey) as an assistant

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. 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

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and the band settled in Cherry's country house near Malmö and recorded their first album ''Laylow'', released in 2006. They are currently based between

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and London. ''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: Novation X-Station and

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Pad 2 * Lolita plays:

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(with its

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system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and Akai

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