LYTHIONMUSIC-JAMES HARRELL

I was born and raised in southern California until the day I packed my bags, grabbed my guitar and left the sunny beaches of San Diego, to relocate to the North Shore of Long Island, New York. Upon my arrival, I was a little unsure of what exactly it was that I wanted to do. I decided to build a small studio in my basement and start experimenting and recording my own music. At the time, I was really into techno and industrial music, as well as ragtime and gospel blues. I attended Five Towns Music School in Dix Hills and studied audio recording and worked full time so I could afford more gear and instruments. I started writing and producing demos for singers and doing songwriting and arranging for gospel and reggae acts. My intro into the NYC gigging scene was via a power pop band called Spider Jones. A few years later, I was approached by Krztoff, the singer for the band, BILE. They needed a keyboard player for a nation tour they were going on and I gladly accepted. With BILE, I appeared in the Dee Snyder horror movie, "Strangeland".
In early '99 I met Ilyana in a recording studio in midtown Manhattan. From that point on, we would start writing music for live performance, theater, film, and television.