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Neutral Milk Hotel was an American Indie Rock Band . The band's chief lyricist and 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 ( Drum s), Scott Spillane (horns), Julian Koster ( Banjo / Bass Guitar / Saw ) and producer-instrumentalist Robert Schneider . Neutral Milk Hotel is a part of The Elephant 6 Recording Company , based out of Athens, Georgia . HISTORY Origins Jeff Mangum, along with high-school friends Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss , formed the 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''. 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 several recordings under the name ''Rubby Bulbs'' (also a song dating from that era, perhaps the only Milk song to be played by Neutral Milk Hotel). Neutral Milk Hotel began simply as a recording project for Mangum, in the early ''. During this period, Mangum was wandering the country, staying in the closets of friends, and in a state of perpetual unemployment. It was in these circumstances that the band's first formal releases took shape. Strictly speaking, however, the 'band' usually consisted of Mangum and whoever else was present at the time. This is obvious on Neutral Milk Hotel's first release, a 7" record entitled ''Everything Is'', recorded when Mangum was spending time in Seattle , Washington , released on Cher Doll Records in 1994 . ''On Avery Island'' A full album, '' On Avery Island '', followed, this time recorded mainly in Denver, Colorado , where Mangum was backed by Robert Schneider of The Apples In Stereo , Rick Benjamin of The Perry Weissman 3 and Lisa Janssen of Secret Square . It was released by Merge Records in 1996 . After the release of ''Avery Island'', Neutral Milk Hotel became a fully-fledged band, as Julian Koster, Scott Spillane and Jeremy Barnes joined Mangum, the band now being based in New York . Soon after this, they moved to Athens, GA , where many of Mangum's friends had begun to settle, and the Elephant 6 recording company began to fully take shape. After this, the band went back to Denver , to record a proper follow up to ''On Avery Island''. ''In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'' and final show
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