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Emperor X

Emperor X has been played on NTS shows including The Sam Wilkes Radio Hour, with Erica Western Teleport first played on 23 June 2023.

Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. R. Matheny. The project often performs and records with little more than Matheny on an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone, but sometimes also employs large groups of musicians on percussion instruments, various electronic noisemakers, brass/woodwind/string ensembles, and traditional rock instruments.

The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise," and discuss subjects ranging from plate tectonics ("A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp"), paramilitary…

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Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse)
Emperor X
Bar/None Records2011
Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse)
Emperor XBar/None Records2011
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Erica Western Teleport
Emperor X
Bar/None Records2011
Erica Western Teleport
Emperor XBar/None Records2011
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