Marbles (band)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marbles is the solo recording project of Apples in Stereo singer and chief songwriter Robert Schneider. The project started out in 1993 when Schneider would record his various musical endeavors on cassette for various people he knew, but was somewhat abandoned as the Apples got off the ground. He would later compile some of the songs, many of which featuring backing vocals from Will Cullen Hart of The Olivia Tremor Control, and release them officially in 1997 as an album named Pyramid Landing (And Other Favorites).

Schneider appeared to have largely abandoned the monicker by 2000, releasing sporadic singles and contributing to a compilation. This changed when spinART released the second Marbles full length, titled Expo in January 2005.

In concert, Marbles is one of the more disorienting of the Elephant 6 bands. Most recently, touring with Of Montreal, Schneider appeared as Marbles dressed in goggles and a sequin jacket, backed by cardboard cutouts of Darth Vader and a robot, adorned with fake instruments, and a CD player supplying all but his lead vocals.

1 Releases
- 1.1 Albums
- 1.2 Singles
2 External links

[edit] Releases

[edit] Albums

Inverse Gazebo (Cassette Only) - Elephant Six - 1993
Warm Milk and Chocolate (Cassette Only) - Elephant Six - 1993
I ♥ the Animals (Cassette Only) - Elephant Six - 1993
Pyramid Landing (And Other Favorites) (CD/LP) - spinART - 1997
Expo (CD) - spinART - 2005

[edit] Singles

"Go Marile" (7") - Bus Stop - 1997
"I Love The Summer Days" (7") - Elephant Six - 1998
"Xmas with the Marbles" (7") - Bi-Fi Records - 2005

[edit] External links

Marbles at All Music Guide

The Elephant Six Collective
Bands in the Collective
The Apples in Stereo \| Beulah \| Black Swan Network \| Chocolate USA \| Circulatory System \| Dixie Blood Mustache \| Dressy Bessy \| Elf Power \| The Essex Green \| Frosted Ambassador \| The Gerbils \| The High Water Marks \| Major Organ and the Adding Machine \| Marbles \| The Minders \| The Music Tapes \| Neutral Milk Hotel \| The Olivia Tremor Control \| Orchestre Fantastique \| Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't \| Secret Square \| The Sunshine Fix \| ulysses \| Von Hemmling
Other Noted Bands and Side Projects
The American Revolution \| Bablicon \| Fablefactory \| Great Lakes \| A Hawk and a Hacksaw \| Icy Demons \| The Instruments \| The Ladybug Transistor \| The Late B.P. Helium \| M Coast \| Marta Tennae \| Midget and Hairs \| My First Keyboard \| Of Montreal \| Synthetic Flying Machine \| Thimble Circus \| Visitations
Related articles
Bill Doss \| Jeff Mangum \| Robert Schneider \| Will Cullen Hart \| Hilarie Sidney \| Laura Carter \| Jeremy Barnes \| Jill Carnes \| David Barnes \| Julian Koster