Information about Chris Walla

Chris Walla (sometimes credited as Christopher Walla) is the guitarist and producer for the band Death Cab for Cutie. He is also a former DJ of KCWU, 88.1 The Burg. Chris currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

Musical career

Death Cab for Cutie

Main article: Death Cab for Cutie

While Death Cab for Cutie was only considered a solo project of Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla contributed vocals for four of the tracks on the album You Can Play These Songs with Chords, as well as electric guitar. Walla was subsequently recruited as a full member of the band along with Nicholas Harmer and Nathan Good.

Solo projects

Walla has a solo project called Martin Youth Auxiliary. Most of these releases, however, have never been fully exposed to the general public. Under this name, one cassette was recorded and released in 1999 on Elsinor Records; only several dozen copies were made. Walla has been claiming that he will release a new MYA record for about four years. Recently he announced that in 2007 he will release an album under this name on Barsuk Records, the home of Death Cab for Cutie and many of the bands Walla has worked with or produced. MYA shows are very rare as well, however, they are almost always recorded.

Walla announced on his site that he will be releasing a new solo album in 2007. Barsuk Records has agreed to release the album, which was initially set for March 2007 but since has been delayed until January 2008[1]. It is not yet known whether or not the album will be released under the Martin Youth Auxiliary moniker. It will reportedly contain two tracks that were left off Death Cab for Cutie's album Plans. [2]

Collaborations

Walla has produced, recorded and mixed albums of artists such as The Decemberists, Nada Surf, The Long Winters, Travis Morrison (formerly of The Dismemberment Plan), The Velvet Teen, Hot Hot Heat, The Thermals, Tegan and Sara, and many more. His most recent collaboration is with So Many Dynamos.

Hall of Justice

Chris Walla has also founded his own recording studio in Seattle, named the Hall of Justice. In 2005 Walla launched his own website, the Hall of Justice Recording, on which he has since made a number of blog posts. However, the main draw of the site is a few dozen mp3 files of Walla's solo songs. The songs were recorded at various times and in various studios but have a distinctively finished sound, likely due to Walla's production skill.

External links

• 20 Questions to Christopher Walla from 2000.
• Hall of Justice Recording

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Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Nick Harmer | Jason McGerr Nathan Good | Michael Schorr
Discography
Albums: You Can Play These Songs with Chords (cassette, 1997) | Something About Airplanes (1998) | We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000) | The Photo Album (2001) | You Can Play These Songs with Chords (re-release, 2002) | Transatlanticism (2003) | Plans (2005)
EPs: The Forbidden Love E.P. (2000) | The Stability E.P. (2002) | Studio X Sessions E.P. (2004) | The John Byrd E.P. (2005)
Singles: "A Movie Script Ending" (2002) | "Stability" (2002) | "I Was a Kaleidoscope" (2002) | "We Laugh Indoors" (2002) | "The New Year" (2003) | "The Sound of Settling" (2004) | "Title and Registration" (2004) | "Soul Meets Body" (2005) | "Crooked Teeth" (2006) | "I Will Follow You into the Dark" (2006)
Other releases: iTunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie (2005)
Filmography
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