Knox Chandler
Knox Chandler (born July 20, 1958) is an American musician. He is primarily a guitarist, but he also plays cello, bass, and other instruments. He has also worked as a session musician.
Knox Chandler

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- Name
- Knox Chandler
- Born
- 20 July 1958
- Birthplace
- Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Hammonasset School
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Knox Chandler (born July 20, 1958) is an American musician. He is primarily a guitarist, but he also plays cello, bass, and other instruments. He has also worked as a session musician.
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Knox Chandler (born 1954) is a cellist, composer and guitarist, among other activities, of American nationality. The cellist was educated at Hammonasset School.
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• Name — Knox Chandler • Born — 20 July 1958 • Birthplace — Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — * Guitar • cello • bass
Education
Education
Chandler attended the Hammonasset School in Madison, CT and graduated from Bard College, in Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. He obtained a post-graduate certificate from the University of Sussex England from the British Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).
Career
Career
Chandler's career was launched in New York City's post punk and new wave era of the early 1980s. Aside from his career as an instrumentalist, he writes string arrangements and compositional collaborations. Artists and bands Chandler has worked include Depeche Mode on their album Exciter providing string arrangements, Lori Carson, The Golden Palominos, the Psychedelic Furs, Ultra Vivid Scene, the Creatures, R.E.M., Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Cyndi Lauper.
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Collaborations
Chandler collaborated with Dave Gahan, of Depeche Mode, on his solo album Paper Monsters, and played guitar during Gahan's 2003 Paper Monsters Tour in support of the album. He has also toured and collaborated with Eric Mingus, Bobby Previte; Chris Palmaro; Mars Williams; Maggie Estep; and works with Mingus, Previte and Williams.
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Personal life
In 2012, Chandler moved to Berlin and continued to tour with various musicians as well as becoming head of the guitar department at the British Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).
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Oxford dictionary of national biography: in association with the British Academy: from the earliest times to the year 2000 / edited by H.C.G.

Band leader Mars Williams and his project are interpreting traditional Christmas songs and tunes of Albert Ayler. Here it´s a concert at Club W71, Weikersheim. Band members are Mars Williams (sax), Jaimie Branch (tr), Knox Chandler (g), Klaus Kugel (dr) Mark Tokar (db).
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• Artist — Record — Label — Year — Role • Gary Windo — Deepwater — Antilles/Island — 1988 — Producer, Composer, Guitar • The Psychedelic Furs — Book of Days — Columbia — 1989 — Guitar • The Psychedelic Furs — World Outside — Columbia — 1991 — Guitar, Cello • The Ancients — The Ancients — Mission Recording Company — 1991 — Cello • R.E.M — Automatic for the People — Warner — 1992 — Cello • Darden Smith — Little Victories — Chaos — 1993 — Guitar • Paula Cole — Harbinger — Imago — 1994 — Cello • Various — Dangerous Inventions — Futurist — 1994 — Guitar, Composer • Lee Aaron — Emotional Rain — A&M — 1994 — Guitar • David Wilcox — Big Horizon — A&M — 1994 — Guitar • Love Spit Love — Love Spit Love — Imago — 1994 — Composer • Blind Light — Absence of Time — Alida — 1994 — Guitar • Maggie Estep — No More Mister Nice Girl — Imago — 1994 — Cello • Monday Michiru — Groovement — Kitty Records — 1994 — Guitar • The Golden Palominos — Pure — Restless Records — 1994 — Guitar • Siouxsie and the Banshees — Showgirls (film) — Interscope — 1994 — Guitar • Gawk — Gawd — Invisible — 1995 — Guitar • Aceilux — Forbidden Fruit — Videoarts Music Inc. — 1995 — Guitar • Hal Hartley — Amateur Soundtrack — Matador — 1995 — Cello • Lori Carson — Where It Goes — Restless Records — 1995 — Guitar/Cello • Susan Werner — Last of the Good Straight Girls — Private Music — 1995 — Guitar/Cello • Stina Nordenstam & Anton Fier — The Photographers Wife(film) — East West — 1996 — Guitar • The Golden Palominos — Dead Inside — Restless Records — 1996 — Composer/Guitar • Parlor James — Dreadful Sorry — Discovery Records — 1996 — Guitar • Various: Divination — Distill — Sub Meta — 1996 — Guitar • Lori Carson — Everything I Touch Runs Wild = — Restless Records — 1997 — Guitar • Edgar Allan Poe — Closed on the Account of Rabies — Mercury — 1997 — Guitar • Maggie Estep — Love is Dog From Hell — Mouth Almighty Records — 1997 — Guitar, Bass, Cello, Producer, Composer • The Psychedelic Furs — The Radio One Sessions — Strange Fruit — 1997 — Guitar • Rule 62 — Rule 62 — Maverick — 1997 — Cello • Various Spaces: A Journey into Ambient Worlds — Blind Light — Rountrip Records — 1997 — Guitar • Willy Porter — Falling Forward — Six Degrees Records — 1999 — Cello, Guitar, Loops • Bree Sharp — A Cheap and Evil Girl — Trauma Records — 1999 — Bass • The Creatures — Anima Animus — Instinct Records — 1999 — Guitar, Bass, Mouth Harp • Natalie Merchant — Lilith Fair, Volume 2 — Arista Recorda — 1999 — Guitar • Miu Sakamoto — Dawn Pink — WEA — 1999 — Guitar • Dar Williams — The Green World — Razor and Tie — 2000 — Cello • Darden Smith — Extra Dry — Valley Entertainment Inc. — 2000 — Guitar • Puracane — Things You Should Leave Alone — Ubiquity — 2000 — Guitar • Anika Moa — Thinking Room — Atlantic — 2001 — Bass, Mandolin • Professional Murder Music — Professional Murder Music — Geffen — 2001 — Cello • Amanda Thorpe — Mass — Cropduster — 2001 — Guitar • Depeche Mode — Exciter — Reprise/Mute — 2001 — Cello, String Arrangement • Siouxsie and the Banshees — The Seven Year Itch — Sanctuary — 2003 — Guitar • Okuda Tamir — E — SME Records. — 2002 — Guitar • Darden Smith — Sunflower — Dualtone — 2002 — Guitar, Cello • Cyndi Lauper — Shine — Oglio Records — 2002 — Guitar, Cello, String Arrangement • Jesse Malin — The Fine Art of Self Destruction — Artemis Records — 2003 — Cello • Anton Fier — Dreamspeed/Blind Light 1992–1994 — Tzadik — 2003 — Guitar • Lori Carson — Stolen Beauty — Restless Records — 2003 — Guitar, Bass, Composer • Dave Gahan — Paper Monsters — Reprise/Mut — 2003 — Guitar, Bass, Cello, Dulcimer, Keyboards, Composer, Programming • Slang — More Talk About Tonight — Terminus Records — 2004 — Composer, Guitar • Siouxsie Sioux — Dreamshow — Rhino Records — 2005 — Guitar, Bass, Cello • Sarah Blasko — What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have — Low Altitude Records — 2007 — Guitar • Dave Gahan — Live Monsters — Mute — 2007 — Guitar • Emma Pollack — Watch The Fireworks — 4AD — 2007 — Guitar • Joy Askew — The Pirate of Eel Pie — Red Parlor records — 2008 — Guitar • Cyndi Lauper — Bring Ya to the Brink — Epic — 2008 — Guitar • London/Sklamberg — Tsuker-zis — Tzadik — 2009 — Guitar • Barbara Sukowa and the XPatsys — Devouring Time — Winter & Winter — 2010 — Guitar • Alan Abrahams — Portable —!K7 records — 2016 — Guitar, Bass • Porter Nickerson — Bonfire To Ash — Weasel Records — 2016 — Guitar • Rita Redshoes — Her — Universal — 2016 — String Arrangements, Guitar • Tau — Tau Tau Tau — Drones of Praise — 2016 — Guitar • Various — I Never Metaguitar Four — Clean Feed — 2017 — Composer, Guitar • Robot — Vedgdbol — Impression Recordings — 2017 — Guitar • Lissie — Castles — Lionboy Records — 2018 — Guitar • Jesper Munk — Favorite Stranger — Warner — 2018 — Guitar • Them There — Love is An Elevator — Sony — 2018 — Guitar, String Arrangements • Herbert Gronemeyer — Tumult — Grönland Records — 2018 — Guitar • Tau and the Drones of Praise — Drones of Praise — 2019 — Guitar • Mars Williams Albert Tyler — Xmas Live Show in Krakow — Not Two Records — 2019 — Guitar • Robot — Wedding Address — Impression Recordings — 2020 — Guitar • Peaches — AngelHeaded Hipster (TRex) — BMG — 2020 — Guitar • Pure Reason Revolution — Eupnea — Inside Out Music — 2020 — String Arrangement • Kenichi and the Sun — White Fire — Radical Amazement — 2021 — Guitar • Peter Freeman — K3CS — Zoar Records — 2022 — Guitar
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