cardboard amandA

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Biography taken from the band's Myspace page: Collaborations rarely culminate so succinctly as evidenced in the case of Francois Louie Camille, Christof Christofovich Tuninsky and Dee Harris - all masterful musicians and scholars of the absurd. Here, in what will be the first in a series of releases from Liar Leaver Records, is a truly remarkable and stunning work of beauty and imagination entitled Cardboard Amanda. This music was inspired by the true story of a brilliant scientist and inventor Dr. Amanda Mueller's complete fall into madness that ended in her suicide (she literally threw herself away in the trash). Francois Louie Camille, a musicologist, composer and botanist, first discovered the fascinating details of the Mueller case before leaving his home in French Algiers for the United States in 1997. "I had become obsessed with this story and decided to lay the ground work for a musical project that would help to illustrate the various pathos inherent in the demise of this woman's life and subsequent death. I knew that in order for the project to take shape, I would need to contact my old friend Tuninsky whom I had met at the Tbilisi Music Conservatory in Georgia in 1987 to help me bring the project to life”. Christof Christofovich Tuninsky, an Olympic silver medal Belarusian gymnast (1977) and renowned scholar of the works of obscure Russian composer Oleg Vronsky, had been contacted by Camille after arriving in New York on a student visa. Tuninsky, himself a pianis