EMPEROR X 
SPRING 2018 PRESS INFORMATION


HI-RES PHOTOGRAPHS: 
1234 (photos by Lena Mikhaylova / Kate Seabrook)



RECENT ALBUMS:



<a href="http://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/the-blythe-archives-volumes-one-and-two">The Blythe Archives Volumes One and Two by Emperor X</a>

<a href="http://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/western-teleport">Western Teleport by Emperor X</a>

MORE ALBUMS: SPOTIFY / BANDCAMP

VIDEOS:
Emperor X in Portugal:
"At a Rave with Nicolas Sarkozy" running around Porto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAK931dW4FQ

Interview on the Azores with Portuguese subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dkNY-rkHyE

Interview in Aveiro with Portuguese subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystwt3Kz6ro

"H.M.S. Blank Mediterranean" at Casa da Musica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmoZQ_HZgj0

"Canada Day" in Aveiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gcs9I3kD-I

"Brown Recluse" on some stairs in Porto

DJ set in Casa da Musica
https://youtu.be/P1iXN2F6hbE?t=1m45s

Other Emperor X material:

"€30,000" premeire on Stereogum
https://www.stereogum.com/1926080/emperor-x-e30000/music/

Interview on National Public Radio
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/10/549489252/emperor-x-we-are-much-more-than-the-sum-of-the-diseases-and-disabilities-we-carr

"Schopenhauer in Berlin" on Little Elephant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwHqX8yQxM

"Tanline Debris" on Little Elephant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JmVT1pK7sw

"Erica Western Teleport" at some house in Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bAkAR465o




OTHER PUBLISHED MUSIC:
SPOTIFY / APPLE MUSIC / BANDCAMP / SOUNDCLOUD

FURTHER INFORMATION:
WIKIPEDIA / TINY ENGINES

BIOGRAPHY: 

Chad Matheny has been releasing music under the Emperor X moniker since 1998. His recordings and live shows fuse the punk songwriter tradition of Billy Bragg with the experimental tape loop minimalism of William Basinski, and reveal incurable obsessions with transportation infrastructure, modernist literature, and lo-fi Chicago house tracks. Consequences of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/album-review-emperor-x-the-orlando-sentinel/ called the resulting twelve critically-accalimed albums and EPs "a radical, challenging, and sometimes baffling discography."

A former chemistry teacher, math tutor, and physics graduate student, Matheny spent the past decade travelling on buses and bullet trains across North America and Europe to perform several hundred concerts in venues ranging from a symphony hall in Portugal to the basement of a garden supply shop in Pittsburgh to a record shop/venue in the shadow of the Old City in Jerusalem. He's shared bills with luminaries like Laura Stevenson, Sebadoh, Nada Surf, Thurston Moore, Sun Kil Moon, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Hotelier, The Hold Steady, Jeffrey Lewis, and John Vanderslice.

Matheny lives in Berlin, where he helps operate a small experimental jazz venue and volunteers as a music technology instructor in a program focused on supporting young refugees. In addition to his label home of Tiny Engines, he has worked with several American and international labels including Bar/None Records, Burnt Toast Vinyl, the German/American label The Bomber Jacket and the Portuguese/German/Lithuanian multimedia collective Mouca.

CONTACT: info@emperorx.net / FB / TWITTER / TUMBLR