Stalker Channing

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Band Bio

Stalker Channing was born Greta von Schluchtaagen in Kienholz, a small town in Switzerland near the German border. She spent most of her childhood roaming the countryside with her vagabond family of traveling cabaret performers. At the Universitat Hamburg she fell under the spell of Punk rock and began slumming the streets with various neopunk wanna-be's. By her mid twenties, feeling washed up and burned out she moved to Canada with her then lover Hanz Openschut. They settled in Thunder Bay, Ontario and found a home among the local bohemian music community. After a few years of mild success playing bass for "Slot", Hanz OD'ed on some fungus growing on the Canadian prairie grass. Distraught and alone, Greta snuck across the U.S. border in the B.W.C.A. and headed South to Minneapolis where she met Zandergriff Miggs at the Turf Club. This chance meeting led to a torrid affair which, in turn led to Miggs paying for phony documents that list her as an American named Stalker Channing.

And thus she was born anew.

Channing began singing back-up vocals with "Zandergriff Miggs & the Parliament of Owls" and quickly became a fan favorite. Zander, with ever the nose for talent began writing material specifically for her to sing and it was soon apparent that she needed her own forum where she could be her own star.

And thus another chapter.

Now, Stalker Channing sings throaty, sweaty love songs with a flair for the dramatic. She is backed by various members of the "Owls" and some times appears on stage with just herself and Zandergriff on mini-moog.

And the crowd cried out for more...

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Albums / EPs

Wow & Flutter Date Released: 3/21/2011   Tracks: 15 Sales: 8   Listens: 20 This album is a culmination of my whirlwind life over the last year. New challenges, friends and my deepening entanglement with a certain mad genius workaholic. My notebooks were full & I needed to clear it out & get it on tape. Next? The Trinity Tour with Ali & Jason whose voices grace a song or 2 here. Many thanks to you both! WOW...& flutter -songs by Slchuchtaagen/Miggs except 13=Leitch -tracked by Frey * w/Alison Jones of bigPEBBLE ^ w/JasonSmith of Zeroth -art by Q / Helectricart

Oedipus Lately? Date Released: 2/6/2010   Tracks: 11 Sales: 7   Listens: 10 Oedipus Lately? features Stalker under the name Felicia O turning up the heat on the candlelight electronica that has become her calling card. Erotic and gracefully sensual, the music will tingle the ancient parts of your brain like a powdered brush across your inner thigh. Felicia O (S. Channing) - vocal exertions, beats & Jupiter8 Neckbone - sleazy, slinky bottleneck 6 string T'Cor - the bottom Dr. Zanzibar - the key *recorded at the BassmentFile by Frey *UncleDuffRecords, TwentyTen

Will 'O Wisp EP Date Released: 9/18/2009   Tracks: 6 Sales: 5   Listens: 6 Stalker took time out from her preparations for the upcoming DogDaysHarvestJam to record this 6 trk EP, "Will 'O Wisp". Sultry as ever, these songs show a maturity in their storytelling and a complexity in the arrangements, showcasing the Tyger woman's continued growth as an artist. Stalker: voices & Fender Rhodes T'cor: bass & bck voice Van Q: guitars, snare drum, beat programming & bck voice Zandergriff: Juno106, congas, trombone & bck voice *trk 6 contains samples of H. Openschut

Floating in the Shallows of Your Mind Date Released: 4/27/2009   Tracks: 9 Sales: 3   Listens: 4 Finally beyond the pain, Stalker Channing unleashes a powerful new album of candle light electronica. She has fully awakened now and her songs speak of the bubbling sexual intensity that is about to spill over. Includes bonus track-cover of Tom Waits "9th & Hennepin" Stalker Channing-all vocals & Roland Jupiter8 Zandergriff Miggs-assorted synths and drum programming recorded at the Bassment File by Z. Miggs produced by S. Channing & Z. Miggs for Uncle Duff Records 2009

Tyger Shark Date Released: 4/3/2009   Tracks: 6 Sales: 7   Listens: 9 Where her debut was sparse & stark in arrangement this EP is full of electricity and the vital forces of new found power. With the exception of the opening accapella of "Tyger Shark" the tunes are more fleshed out musically with an unexpected sonic attack. Recorded live-no overdubs. The Owls lay a tight backdrop for Stalker's smokey vocal stylings which seem to indemnify her past. Recorded, mixed, mastered & produced by Z. Miggs for Uncle Duff Records 2009

Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright Date Released: 3/27/2009   Tracks: 10 Sales: 9   Listens: 13 Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright is about transformation. It is one woman's journey through the grief of loss. Stalker Channing made that journey and was reborn in the flames. Aided musically by Zandergriff Miggs, she wrote these lyrics to plumb the innermost depths of her misery at the loss of her long time love Hanz Openschut. All this allowed the healing to create the Tyger Woman she has become! recorded at Bassment File mixed & mastered by Frey produced by Z. Miggs for Uncle Duff Records