Education
Ellis attended Evergreen State College in Washington.
Ellis attended Evergreen State College in Washington.
He also runs a commercial music company called 70% Water Music as well as his personal label Records and Tapes Records. lieutenant was while in school there that he first began working with local bands such as Nubbin, Lemonade, Hotess, Freebird, and Dig Yer Grave. He returned to New York in 1994, where he joined with Sam Koppelman and Sean Lennon to record as Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. Institute for Mathematics and its Applications backed Lennon"s mother, Yoko Ono, on her album Rising.
In 1997 Ellis and Sean Lennon joined Cibo Matto (both playing bass, guitar and drums).
As a quartet (Yuka Honda, Miho Hatori, Ellis, Lennon) Cibo Matto released an European Parliament, Super Relax (1997) and their final album Stereo ★ Type A (1999). He continued to tour with Cibo Matto until they disbanded in 2001.
Later in the year Ellis released his first solo European Parliament. Ellis has since self-released 31 additional EPs and LPs which are available on iTunes (or by contacting Timo himself) He currently performs regularly in his band Netherlands. He"s also recently been a regular player in Miho Hatori"s New Optimism and Joan as Police Woman.
His music can be previewed from his Bandcamp page and Official Website.
He lives in Brooklyn. EPs U. Fantasmatic Silicon Vapor Yoko Ono Cibo Matto (Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori) Joan as Police Woman Miho Hatori New Optimism Sean Lennon The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger Mark Ronson Spacehog White Hills Maki Nomiya of Pizzicato Five Butter 08 Money Mark John Zorn"s Cobra Melvins Jamiroquai West
Mark Ronson Andrew Weiss/Ween Gibby Haynes Fun Lovin" Criminals Jordan Galland Domino Kirke Black Sugar Transmission Morningwood If By Yes Menlo Park Halle Dopo Yume Biker Period Fay Wray Ezra Reich Tara Angell David Pilgrim Lauren Hoffman The Peachwaves Aiha Higurashi Bonnie Pink Duma Love Murray Weinstock Dave Douglas Vandana Jain Aya Brandt Abner Saint Christopher and the Sleeping Doormen Blue Spark (Seattle) Gluttonius (w Suzanne von Aichinger and John Paul Keenon) Sky White Tiger Brooke Bryant Lemonheads/ Evan Dando Blood of the Runt (w Christine Cherbonnier).