Cameron Miller
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Cameron Miller is a Santa Cruz based musician and composer, most noted for playing with The Head Dwellers. He has also produced a wide variety of solo recordings.
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[edit] The "Dark" Ages
Cameron's early interest in music came from hearing it in the movies and video games that were regularly played in his household growing up. He became inspired to play it after hearing the Gorillaz debut album, and took up playing guitar and keyboards in middle school. Lacking any formal musical training, he learned the instruments by playing them to Oingo Boingorecords.
Around this time he began composing horrifically terrible musical recordings. And we're not just talking about stylistically bad (that too, though), we mean music written with zero ZERO knowledge of musical essentials (parts were off rhythm, off key, and horribly dissonant nearly 105% of the time). The occasionally decent material (Orderves, Adventures In Pop) was produced more accidentally than consciously.
[edit] The "Semi-lit, hazy dawn" Age
Sometime around the end of 2005/beginning of 2006 Cameron learned to write music that was at least theoretically correct (the stylistic problems would continue to dog his work). He set to work producing a "true" debut EP that might help bring he back some of the good standing he had destroyed with his two previous albums.
[edit] Hey Guys, I'm Brian Wilson!
As the age of 2006 grew, so did Miller's ambition. He started work on a loose concept album dealing with a family's encounter with a mystical creature known as Brown Jenkins (taken from HP Lovecrafts' Dreams In The Witch House) titled The Ballad Of Brown Jenkins. The music was heavy on the harpsichord, orchestral arrangements, and exotic (i.e. diminished) chords. Basically, it sounded like a darker version of Brian Wilson's famous Smile album.
You can probably see where this is going. Miller followed in the footsteps of his idol, failing to complete and release the album. There was nothing exciting like excessive drug use or mental illness to blame however, just simple laziness.
In it's place a smaller but similar work called The Amazing Mono Ep was released. Ironically, it was not mixed in true monophonic, but simply a number of mono tracks spread into stereo. Weak.
[edit] Today
In February of 2007, Miller created his most successful (really, lots of people liked it, I swear!) work by once again following in the great Wilson's footsteps and spicing up the classic Shortnin' Bread with all manner of buzzing and burping synths. This and three other tracks are set to be made into an Ep of "funny" music (yes, he's going for another damned Ep release).
Release of that has been delayed to work on a full album of nicely written songs produced in the most perfect way possible. The first single off the album; Why Did He Try At All showed promise, but two problems stand in the way of the albums release: Miller's voice, always precariously poor, decided to give up it's hilariously high range for about one octave of perfectly pedestrian warbling that would murder the poor, innocent songs it sang. And his trademark laziness once again threatens completion.
Will our hero release his masterwork? Or will he again wonder off towards the first intriguing thing that catches his ear or eye? Stay tuned...
[edit] Discography
The Dark Ages: Seriously Weird Music Ep - 2003 Jazz, Fear And Ska - 2004 Recordings Volume 2 - 2005
Other Stuff True Debut Ep 2005 Amazing Mono Ep 2006
