Chris Schlarb
Chris Schlarb is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist. He is best known as the founder and leader of the Psychic Temple cult.
Career
In 1998, Schlarb co-founded the free improvisation ensemble Create.Schlarb founded the record label Sounds Are Active in 1999. Sounds Are Active released over 50 albums and produced the Sean Carnage rockumentary 40 Bands 80 Minutes!.
Schlarb's first solo album, Twilight and Ghost Stories, was the result of recordings sourced from musicians across the US as well as his own home recordings of instruments, rainfall, and traffic.
National Public Radio named I Heart Lung's Interoceans one of their Top 5 Jazz Albums of 2008.
In 2009, Schlarb collaborated with Swedish video game developer Nifflas on NightSky. Schlarb composed forty tracks of original music for NightSky which was nominated for the Independent Games Festival’s Seumas McNally Grand Prize. BoingBoing described the score as “what game music can be”.
''Psychic Temple''
In 2010, Schlarb formed a cult in Long Beach, California called Psychic Temple.Psychic Temple has released 5 studio albums: Psychic Temple, Psychic Temple II, Psychic Temple Plays Music For Airports, Psychic Temple III, and Psychic Temple IV.
BIG EGO
In 2016, Schlarb and wife, Adriana, opened BIG EGO Studios, a recording studio located in Long Beach, California.In 2018, Schlarb founded BIG EGO Records, a record label that handles all physical distribution with a bi-annual shipment of select vinyl albums to BIG EGO annual series subscribers.
Schlarb has collaborated with Mike Watt, Sufjan Stevens, Nels Cline, Paul Masvidal, Mick Rossi, Dave Longstreth, Julianna Barwick, Dave Easley, Ikey Owens, Daedelus, Chad Taylor, Serengeti, Omid Walizadeh, Busdriver, Awol One, Diane Cluck, Steuart Liebig, Walter Kitundu, Soul-Junk, Chad Van Gaalen, Liz Janes, Philip Glenn, DM Stith, and Talip Peshkepia.
Discography
Studio AlbumsAs Composer
- Twilight and Ghost Stories
- Psychic Temple
- NightSky
- Psychic Temple II
- Making The Saint
- Dropsy
- Psychic Temple Plays Music For Airports
- Psychic Temple III
- Psychic Temple IV
With I Heart Lung
- Interoceans
- Between Them A Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet
With Create (!)
- A Prospect of Freedom
- Liz Janes & Create
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director | - |
| Year | Title | Director | Credited as |
| 2006 | 40 Bands 80 Minutes! | Sean Carnage | Producer |
| 2009 | We Scream: Voices From the Ice Cream Underground | Chris Schlarb | Director |