“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
Profiles
Ruth Kolarik
Margaret Fuller Simpson '93
Carl Kielcheski MA '67
Ricki Spector Booker '90
Joe '81 and Edith Lowe Auner
'80
Andrew Mudge '97
Miguel Romero '00
All-CC Grad Band National
Eye