Phil Shoenfelt

Phil Shoenfelt: British singer/guitarist/songwriter/producer, lives in Prague, formed post-punk band Khmer Rouge in New York in 1981, played regularly at CBGBs, toured east coast USA as support for The Clash, Alan Vega, Nico, Billy Idol, The Gun Club, toured UK as support for The Fall in the mid 1980s, first solo record produced by Tony Cohen and released by Mark E. Smith on Cog Sinister, supported Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Crime & The City Solution on UK tours in the early 1990s, formed Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross in Prague in 1996, founded Fatal Shore and Dim Locator in Berlin, has had more than thirty CDs, LPs, EPs, singles, compilations released on independent labels in the UK, Germany, USA, Czech Republic, Spain and Greece, is the author of cult noir novels Junkie Love and Stripped.Phils new solo album Cassandra Lied was recorded in Prague between August 2018 and November 2019. He was joined in this endeavour by several notable musicians, including co-producer and band-mate Chris Hughes (drummer with These Immortal Souls, Mick Harvey, Hugo Race, Alexander Hacke), and lapsteel guitarist Kristof Hahn of Swans. A radical departure from Phils previous work, Cassandra Lied has a lyrical depth which is comparable to the work of rock poets such as Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Nick Cave. The music itself is closer to the layered, atmospheric approach of artists like Brian Eno, David Bowie and Tony Visconti than it is to traditional rock dynamics. Other influences on this album are post-punk bands such as Joy Division and Krautrock bands Neu and La Dusseldorf.