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Neutral Milk Hotel was an United States|American Independent music|indie folk Band (music)|band. The band's chief songwriter, Jeff Mangum, played with a number of other musicians on the band's two full-length albums. Notable contributors to the band's oeuvre include Jeremy Barnes (drums), Scott Spillane (horns), Julian Koster (banjo/bass guitar/musical saw|saw), and producer-instrumentalist Robert Schneider. Neutral Milk Hotel is a part of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, based in Athens, Georgia.
History
Origins
Jeff Mangum, along with high-school friends Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss, formed The Olivia Tremor Control, with Mangum appearing on their first release, the ''California Demise'' 7".
Prior to recording for friends under the NMH moniker, Mangum recorded at least one cassette under the name Milk; the most well-known of these tapes was called ''Pygmie Barn in E Minor''.<ref>[http://www.elephant6.com/disco/milk1.html The Elephant Six Recording Company - E6 Catalog - Milk<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> These are the earliest known recordings that Mangum initiated and executed himself. There were only an estimated dozen or so copies ever made of this tape, none of which has been made public. It was revealed circa 2006 on the Elephant 6 online forums that another tape under said name, entitled ''Beauty'', was released, along with... read all
