Matt Elliott (musician)


Matt Elliott is an English music producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, originally from Bristol, England and now based in France. He produced and recorded electronic music as The Third Eye Foundation, before pivoting towards releasing folk music under his name.

Biography

Elliott started recording with the band Linda's Strange Vacation, which included Kate Wright and Rachel Brook, around the time Wright and Brook formed Movietone, and Brook and Dave Pearce formed Flying Saucer Attack. Elliott was a part-time member of both bands.
He recorded Semtex, his first album under the name The Third Eye Foundation, and released it on his own record label, Linda's Strange Vacation, with the help of the fledgling Domino Recording Company. The next three albums were released on Domino in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
As Third Eye Foundation, Elliott worked with bands and artists including Amp, Hood, Yann Tiersen, Mogwai, Ulver, Tarwater, The Pastels, Navigator, Urchin, Suncoil Sect, Remote Viewer, and Thurston Moore primarily as a remixer. In 2001, a compilation album of his remixes was released.
In 2003, he released his first album under his own name, The Mess We Made, which marked a stylistic shift from The Third Eye Foundation releases. The next three albums were released as a trilogy on the French label Ici, d'ailleurs.... By the release of Drinking Songs, his sound had changed considerably from his earlier work, now being compared to Tindersticks and The [Black Heart Procession].
On Yann Tiersen's 2009 tour, Elliott was support act, and later in the show was part of Yann's band onstage.

Discography

All recordings were released under the Third Eye Foundation name up to and including 2001's I Poo Poo on Your Juju, later recordings were released under Elliott's own name. 2010's The Dark was again released under The Third Eye Foundation.

Studio albums

As The Third Eye Foundation

As The Third Eye Foundation

  • "Universal Cooler"
  • "Semtex"
  • "Stars Are Down"
  • "Sound of Violence"
  • "There's No End in Sight"
  • "Fear of a Wack Planet"
  • "In Bristol with a Pistol"
  • "What Is It With You?"

    As Matt Elliott

  • "Borderline Schizophrenic"
  • "The Broken Man"
  • "Manyfingers / Matt Elliott"
  • "Radius"

    Filmography

  • What a Fuck Am I Doing on This Battlefield – documentary by Nico Peltier and Julien Fezans