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National Eye“I guess we all had a fascination with putting things on tape,” says Gianmarco Cilli, member of the all-CC-grad band National Eye.

Cilli says neither he nor any of his five bandmates had any formal music training, but all had a passion for playing and recording music.

Now Cilli, Richard Flom, William Baggott, Jeffrey Love, and Douglas Kirby — all graduates of the class of 2000 — have released their first album by a record label and play live most weeks of the month at pubs, galleries, and other music venues on the East Coast. The band members all live in Philadelphia.

“Of course we would love to be able to make a living doing it, but we’re having fun,” Cilli said. “We make the music we want to make, we get to record at home and play live at great clubs.”

National Eye describes their sound as “an optic clang, a color swarm of repetition and dissonance and harmony which transfigures its descriptions of distorted memory and lumbering beasts (human and otherwise) into a movie minefield of vivid pathos pop.” Music critics have said the band employs “hypnotic pop that’s relentless with catchy, cleverly repetitive lines, both instrumental and vocal.”

National Eye produced and engineered their album, “The Meter Glows,” released November 18, 2003 by Feel Records, at their home studio.

The album cover features the artwork of another Colorado College alumnus, Eric Saline ’00.
For more information about National Eye, consult their Web site at http://www.nationaleye.com

– Jennifer Kulier


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