22 Facts About Jeff Mangum

Jeff Mangum was born in Ruston, Louisiana, where he met the other co-founding members of Elephant 6, Robert Schneider, Will Cullen Hart, and Bill Doss.

Jeff Mangum's father, James Jeff Mangum, was a professor of economics at Louisiana Tech University.

Jeff Mangum has contributed vocals, drums and sound effects to many of the Olivia's subsequent recordings, including their debut EP California Demise, released in 1994 on the Elephant 6 Recording Co.

Jeff Mangum left Athens and travelled around the United States, working on solo four-track tape recordings under the name Milk, which would soon become Neutral Milk Hotel.

Jeff Mangum recorded his debut LP On Avery Island at Robert Schneider's Pet Sounds Studio in Denver, Colorado between 1994 and 1995.

Jeff Mangum disbanded Neutral Milk Hotel following an extensive tour of North America and Europe, culminating in a solo set on New Year's Eve 1998 at the 40 Watt Club in Athens.

Allegedly suffering from poor health and a nervous breakdown, Jeff Mangum made few public appearances until February 2001, when he performed a one-off show in New Zealand at the request of Chris Knox.

That summer, Mangum released a compilation of field recordings of Bulgarian folk music on the Orange Twin label titled Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I This was followed by a live solo album Live at Jittery Joe's, recorded by filmmaker Lance Bangs in 1997.

Jeff Mangum contributed to the soundtrack as well as playing several very minor roles in the film.

In February 2002, Jeff Mangum was interviewed by Pitchfork where he discussed his emotional response to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, his recent interest in Buddhism and Eastern thought, travelling across Europe, and working on new field recordings and sound collage pieces.

Jeff Mangum's playlists included excerpts from music therapy classes, musique concrete pieces, European folk music, and environmental recordings by Chris Watson.

Jeff Mangum debuted a lengthy new sound collage work, entitled "To Animate the Body with the Cocoon of the Her Unconscious Christ the Mother Removes Her Death Body of 1910 Only To Be Reborn in the Same Spirit as a School of Blow Fish Believing in the Coming of the Milk Christ", and credited to The Long Warm Wall of Alfred Snouts.

Jeff Mangum regularly contributed vocals, drums and sound effects to a number of Elephant 6-related albums throughout the 2000s.

Jeff Mangum made no further public appearances until October 2008, when he took part in the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise reunion tour, performing the Neutral Milk Hotel song "Engine" at several shows accompanied by Julian Koster on singing saw.

In December 2009, Jeff Mangum contributed a cover of "Sign the Dotted Line" to a Chris Knox tribute album titled Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox.

On December 4,2010, Jeff Mangum played an unannounced set at a loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Jeff Mangum curated a series of downloadable 'radio broadcasts' and sold one-of-a-kind drawings, with a portion of proceeds donated to charities including Children of the Blue Sky.

Jeff Mangum was often accompanied by friends and former Neutral Milk Hotel bandmates Koster, Spillane and Barnes onstage.

Jeff Mangum described the process of constructing sound collage pieces during a rare interview with Pitchfork the same year:.

In January 2008, it was reported that Jeff Mangum had married filmmaker and activist Astra Taylor.

Jeff Mangum is vegan, and on October 27,2011, performed a benefit show at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, raising over $16,500.

In March 2020, ahead of the US presidential election, Jeff Mangum endorsed the presidential campaign of US Senator Bernie Sanders in a message to "his friends", subsequently shared publicly and co-signed by Taylor.