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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 religious fanatics (“Allahu Akbar”), the nature of time as it relates to car accident casualties and the 2009 Port-au-Prince earthquake (“Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse)”), failed attempts to fix broken air conditioners (“Compressor Repair”), and mass transit (“Everyone in Jacksonville”, “Right to the Rails” and “Edgeless”).
Emperor X tours the United States very frequently, and has completed several small tours internationally including trips to Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
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  • xsavior

    I found a used copy of tectonic membrane at a cd store in IL called threshold about 6 years ago. The store has since closed down. I heard that Emperor X played there once...this is my first time looking him up online. The cd has been a regular in my playlist for all these years. Im interested in hearing more now that i know he wasnt a local artist. Always loved that album...props.

    March 2012

  • caffeineandvase

    http://www.zolinsagt.de/2012/02/heier-schei-emperor-x.html love from germany!

    February 2012

  • weaselmin

    I love you, Chad. Come back to Baltimore soon.

    January 2012

  • mutexplosion

    I think Western Teleport is probably my favorite album of the year. JUST SO YOU KNOW. It's super cohesive and definitely his best album, anyway.

    December 2011

  • PikaPika

    This guy is so stupid talented. He really deserves to hit it big.

    November 2011

  • Feli_

    I'd rather cultivate palm trees :3

    October 2011

  • mutexplosion

    He's on a new label and has a new album coming out October 4th: http://www.bar-none.com/emperorx.html

    September 2011

  • StuckPig

    i love this man and im a better person for knowing him

    August 2011
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