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Julian playing the banjo at ArthurFest 2005

Julian Koster is a member of the Elephant 6 Collective. He is the leader of American underground band The Music Tapes, and a former member of seminal indie legends Neutral Milk Hotel. He is also believed to have been a founder of the highly secretive Major Organ and the Adding Machine. Koster joined the The Olivia Tremor Control upon their 2005 reformation for a few select shows and appeared on many releases related to the Elephant 6 Collective. The instruments he is usually credited to are the singing saw, the accordion, the wandering genie, the banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. He also played banjo on the soundtrack of the movie The Station Agent.

Discography

As Julian Koster

• The Singing Saw at Christmastime (Merge; CD; 2008)

With Chocolate USA

• All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today (Bar/None; Cassette/CD; 1992)
• Smoke Machine (Bar/None; CD; 1994)

With The Olivia Tremor Control

• Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle (Flydaddy; LP; 1996)

With Major Organ and the Adding Machine

• Christmas in Stereo (Kindercore; CD; 1997)
• Major Organ and the Adding Machine (Orange Twin; CD; 2001)

With Black Swan Network

• The Late Music (Camera Obscura; CD; 1997)

With Neutral Milk Hotel

• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge; CD; 1998)

With The Music Tapes

• 1st Imaginary Symphony For Nomad (Merge; CD/LP; 1999)
• 2nd Imaginary Symphony For Cloudmaking (Self-released CD; 2002)
• Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes (Merge; CD/LP; 2008)
• Please Hear Mr. Flight Control (Elephant Six; 7"; 1997)
• The Television Tells Us (Elephant Six; 7"; 1998)
• The Music Tapes and Dad (Given free with 'Stop Smiling Magazine' #8; 7"; 2000)

Guest appearances

• The Gay Parade by Of Montreal (1999), singing and jumping on the furnace.
• Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs by Elf Power (1995) on the moog synthesizer.
• Factory Showroom by They Might Be Giants (1996) on the singing saw.
• Serotonin Ronin (1998) on electronics.
• American Custard by Fablefactory (1999) on the moog synthesizer.
• Sea Is Fierce by Elk City (2001) on the singing saw
• The Unfairground by Kevin Ayers (2007) on the singing saw

With Elf Power

• When the Red King Comes (Arena Rock Recording Co./Elephant 6; CD/LP; 1997)

With The Circulatory System

• Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings; LP; 2001)

With The Instruments

• Billions of Phonographs (Orange Twin; CD; 2002)

External links

• The Music Tapes - "All Official Announcements"

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