Lineland

Malcolm Felder creates streamlined, discretely layered electronic music informed by a taste for left-field pop ranging from Bruce Haack to Bollywood, H?sker D? to George Jones. After moving to Queens in 1998, he began composing as Lineland, borrowing the name of a one-dimensional realm described in Flatland, the Victorian sci-fi novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Initial four-track Casio recordings grew into the album Pavilion over a three-year period...

In addition to work on Lineland's music, Felder has collaborated with writer Gabriel Boyer on the children's record A Journey to Happiness Island (2001) and the enhanced-CD concept album The Textbook Tapes (2003), both on Mister Records. In 2002 he played drums on Sybarite's Scene of the Crime EP, and also began performing with a new band featuring Elefant Records' Kelly Slusher and Marina of La Peque?a Suiza. Currently he's working with singer-guitarists Annie Heringer and Elijah McMurtrie on incorporating vocals into new Lineland material.