BAND BIOGRAPHY
Lilia, Eugene and Yingtze started morphy in 2001 in a tiny jamming studio in Singapore with a small collection of songs about observations in life.
Over time, the number of songs grew steadily and morphy began recording in 2002 with the help of Rick Smith and John Chan from Chromazone Studios. Drawing on a diverse range of musical influences, the band developed their songs over two years culminating in their 13-track debut album titled Pink Ashes.
All three agree that making music is one of the best things in life.
INDIVIDUAL BIOS
LILIA
Past: NUS Jazz Band, The Sheares Hall Band
Present: morphy, Hazy Jane
music influences : Velvet Underground, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mansun, Mew, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Bernard Butler, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Beth Gibbons, Herbie Hancock, Marvin Gaye, Chet Baker, Suede, The Flaming Lips, traditional world music and music with drones.
EUGENE
Past: overdrive, vARnish, ISP
Present: morphy, pseudo, EMOT
music influences: Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, The Flaming Lips, Doves, Blur, UNKLE, Pixies, Dandy Warhols, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins, RHCP, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, as well as some classical (esp. Russian i.e. Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky).
YINGTZE
Past: NUS jazz band
Present: morphy
music influences : anything that inspires even after 2
years with the cd + anything sung or played with real
feelings e.g Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Dave Brubeck,
Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Ben
Folds Five, Belle and Sebastian ......
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