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Camille Davila

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About Me

is an international song-writer/multi-instrumentalist and cult celebrity who is most often referred to as the "enigmatic pop-glam princess". Born in Los Angeles, California, she spent most of her life ping ponging the west coast and the last 6-7 years relocated in Europe, primarily Liverpool England. In 2000 she worked with Luc Leduc of Below Records to release her debut album Not for the Disco shortly before moving to Liverpool to study sound technology and continue her relationship with Below Records which re-located to Berlin, Germany. Two European tours followed with bands of Below Record’s fame (200T and the Bad Cassettes), along with gobs of scattered European gigs and a second album "World of Gliding Monsters", produced in the UK, Bergen Norway and Germany. Camille is one of the few of her kind to take the reigns on her projects, producing and arranging most of her tracks herself; in fact on some of her newest recordings she has even played every instrument. When choosing to collaborate, she played amongst some of Europe's finest musicians (including Stein Urheim of Steady Steele, Marius Simonsen of Pop Levi and Super Numeri and Pop Levi himself). Camille continued to play through a residency at Ladytron's newly opened club "Korova" while popping up for "special appearance" gigs globally. Camille's surrounding company has always been of interest to die-hard fans, from playing with ex-Jeff Buckley drummer Eric Eidel, to working for an organization run by Stewart Brand, Brian Eno and others at The Long Now Foundation, to debuting her residency with her opening players the Zutons! We even find a link to artist Snap Ant who she shared a flat with in Liverpool. After a brief return back to California to form a new band and play shows in America and Europe Camille brought her band to London to record her newest album Hi-C which is due to release in January of 2008. A new music video for song "Wireless World" directed by Jacqueline Passmore (visual artist for bands such as Ladytron and Stereolab) was launched in October 2007 and is looking forward to touring several film festival circuits next year. Camille Davila currently resides in the UK, California and Norway where she continues to play live and record, working on her own music and a new collaborative and untitled project with Jeron Gundersen of Dibidim and Grandama whom she worked with largely during the making of her previous two albums. Her music is released by Poly Records and available exclusively online through digital downloads and for sale through her website...

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Member Since: 1/3/2005
Band Website: camilledavila.com
Band Members: Joanna Oyzon, Andrew Grosse, Tim Very
Influences: "in order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"... -Carl SaganandAgustin Lara, Antonio Vivaldi, Astrud, Astrud Gilberto, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, Beck, Bent, Bill Frisell, Bob Hund, Brian Eno, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Springfield, Caetano Veloso, Carlos Gardel, Chopin, Cornelius, The Damned, David Bowie, Dibidim, Dolly Parton, Doris Day, Edith Piaf, Ennio Morricone, FOCUS!!!!, The Fishmen, The Flaming Lips, Gary Numan, George Lewis, Gonzales, Harry Nilsson, Helmut Zacharia (& His Orchestra), Herbie Hancock, Hildegard Knef, The Hollies, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Tenor, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, the Lovin Spoonful, Milton Nascimento, Moloko, The Moody Blues, Neil Young, Nico, The Pretty Things, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Stereo Total, Stevie Wonder, Stina Nordenstam, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Takako Minekawa, T.Rex, The Turtles, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Woody Allen, The Zombies
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Sounds Like: Sounds like you can now purchase my albums on iTunes.Sounds like you can now purchase my albums on iTunes.
Record Label: TBA
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Why two myspace pages?

Yes I get asked this question more often then one would think and no there are not two different Camille Davilas. "World of Gliding Monsters" was released in 2004 under Berlin indie label Below Record...
Posted by Camille Davila on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:33:00 PST

Gig This Saturday

I have a gig this Saturday at the Whistle Stop in San Diego. Please come if you're local.x...
Posted by Camille Davila on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:58:00 PST

icast presents

the best of myspace top 20this podcast is moving up with a new feature on the front page of itunes podcast. Gill Mills presents a great array of artistis. I really like a lot of her choices and feel...
Posted by Camille Davila on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:06:00 PST

CANCER

http://www.active.com/donate/tntors/tntorsCDavila Hey Everyone, I am running the half marathon in San Diego June 3rd in honour of my friend Wafa'a who lost her life to lymphoma. Wafa's is the second f...
Posted by Camille Davila on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:03:00 PST

New myspace page

Hi there,Please visit:http://www.myspace.com/camilledavilaprescreen if you are browsing for new material..xxCD
Posted by Camille Davila on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:35:00 PST

Syd Barrett

Silence.
Posted by Camille Davila on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:58:00 PST

BUY MY ALBUM IN THE US HERE!!

http://www.ab-cd.com/icbin/media/BL0403.htmlNow ab-dc is offering World of Gliding Monsters online, the more orders the more shops in the US will stock it. Hope this helps to those of you in the US w...
Posted by Camille Davila on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:37:00 PST

THE MOON LANDINGS

I understand that if you don't have a good understanding of Astonomy/physics/space travel/NASA etc it might be very tempting to believe moon conspiracy theories but it only takes a quick second to fin...
Posted by Camille Davila on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:08:00 PST

BACK IN THE STUDIO

Hello Myspacerrrrrrrrs,If you have messaged me and don't get a response right back it's cause I'm back in the studio and only check my myspace about once a week (if I had internet there I would get NO...
Posted by Camille Davila on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:45:00 PST

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEOS

Hi, Check out Lovesong and Corduroy videos here: Love Camille
Posted by Camille Davila on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:10:00 PST