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Artist
Phil Shöenfelt
12+ albums
blues-post-punkswamp rocknoise rocksinger-songwriterminimalist
about
Phil Shöenfelt was born in Bradford, England, in 1952. After colliding with the London Punk scene in the mid-1970's, he moved to New York where he formed the post-punk noise band Khmer Rouge. In the early 1980's they supported acts such as Suicide, Tom Verlaine, and The Clash and are featured on the "White Columns Noise Festival Tape" which also includes early versions of Sonic Youth and Swans. In New York they were managed by Nat Finkelstein, author of "The Factory Years" and renowned photographer of The Velvet Underground. Khmer Rouge returned to London in 1984 and after supporting The Fall on two British tours split in 1986. Phil returned also played guitar on such records as "Incense and Peppermints" by Brix Smith’s Adult Net, and the "Cat Tabu E.P." by Kid Congo Powers. In 1989 Shöenfelt began a solo career, releasing records as Phil Shöenfelt. In May 1990 the Backwoods Crucifixion LP/CD was released. In 1992 he worked with Crime and the City Solutions’s singer Simon Bonney on his first solo album. The next Phil Shöenfelt CD was "God Is The Other Face Of The Devil", released on Humbug Records/Trident Music International in 1993, and in the summer of 1994 a tour of the Czech Republic was organised in conjunction with the popular Czech band Tichá Dohoda, who learned Shöenfelt’s songs and backed him on the tour. The final concert of the tour, at Prague’s Bunkr Club, was recorded on a mobile studio and released in April 1995 under the title Live In Prague, (Bonton Music in
