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The Charmels started life as The Tonettes singing under the Stax label's umbrella. .

There are several artists that go under the name Carmel: 1) A British female singer, her eponymous band Carmel uniting bassist Jim Parris, and drummer Gerry Darby. 2) An electronic pop duo from Argentina. 1) The band formed in Manchester twenty six years ago during an interesting time when punk had lost steam, and change was in the wind. Two students with music in their soul, Carmel McCourt and Jim Parris got together and with drummer Gerry Darby (Jim's cousin) began a long career of defeating definition. Their first single - "Storm" - reached No. 1 in the independent charts...

The Jarmels were one of those one-hit wonder groups, responsible for a number 12 single in 1961 entitled "A Little Bit of Soap." If none of their other five singles did remotely as well, that song has lingered in the public consciousness, partly with help from periodic new hit versions by the Exciters in the mid-1960s and Showaddywaddy in England during the 1980s. The Jarmels came from Richmond, Virginia, where the five members had all begun singing together in church and school. Nathaniel Ruff (b. 1939), Ray Smith (b. 1941), Paul Burnett (b. 1942), Earl Christian (b. 1940), and Tom...

Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American jazz trumpet player. Jones was born in Kansas City. He is best known for his work with Horace Silver, appearing in the album Song for My Father. He also recorded for Pacific Jazz from 1961 to 1963. In 1965 he moved to Germany where he lived for 15 years. He returned to the USA and died in Kansas City. In this time he worked with the SFB-Bigband (Sender Freies Berlin) under Paul Kuhn (1968 to 1980). There he worked with musicians as Milo Pavlovic, Herb Geller, Leo Wright...

Karmelloz, based in the US Pacific North West, has been one of the more subtle American producers in the experimental electronic style that has grown up online in the aftermath of hypnagogic pop and alongside its more straightforwardly sample based cousin vaporwave. From these two styles he takes a certain new agey tropicalia, but this is recast distinctively as a sinister, elusive, gentle chaos. .