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{{Short description|Trip hop band}}
{{For|the 1999 live album compilation by [[King Crimson]]|Cirkus: The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live}}{{For|the 2022 Indian Hindi-language|Cirkus (film)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{One source|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = CirKus
| years_active    = 2005&ndash;present
| origin          = [[London]], England / [[Stockholm]], Sweden
| genre           = [[Trip hop]], [[alternative dance]], [[electronic music|electronic]]
| label    = [[Tent Music]]
| associated_acts = [[Massive Attack]], [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]], [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]
| current_members = [[Burt Ford]]<br />[[Neneh Cherry]]<br />Lolita Moon<br />Karmil<br />Thomas Nordström (live)<br />Jonotan (live)
| past_members    = John Tonks<br />Anschul
}}
'''CirKus''' are a [[trip hop]] band formed by Burt Ford (Cameron McVey), Karmil (aka Matt Kent), Lolita Moon and [[Neneh Cherry]].<ref name="BBC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/rvmq/|title=CirKus review by BBC|author=Louis Pattison|publisher=BBC|accessdate=21 January 2019}}</ref>
== History ==
DJ and producer Karmil was recruited by Burt Ford (Neneh's husband [[Cameron McVey]]) as an assistant [[recording engineer]]. They began to work on their own material at Karmil's home studio in London. Ford was singing, then Karmil's girlfriend Lolita Moon (Neneh and Cameron's daughter Tyson) was asked to sing on some tracks. Eventually Neneh Cherry joined the team and performed rapped/sung vocals. Ford and Karmil convinced Cherry to move to [[Sweden]] and the band settled in Cherry's country house near [[Malmö]] and recorded their first album ''Laylow'', released in 2006.<ref name="BBC"/> They are currently based between [[Stockholm]] and [[London]].
''Laylow'' received negative reviews from the BBC, stating it as "mostly uninspired and smoothed to an unpleasant sheen."<ref name="BBC"/>
The group released a second album, ''Medicine'', in France in March 2009.
== Discography ==
===Studio albums===
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! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album details
! scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions
|-
! scope="col" style="font-size:85%"| [[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|FRA]]<br><ref name=fra>French chart peaks:{{cite web|url=http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Cirkus|title=lescharts.com > CirKus dans les Charts Français|language=French|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=2016-05-19}}</ref>
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! scope="row"| ''Laylow''
|
* Release date: 2006
* Label: [[Wagram Music|Wagram]] <small>(#3118062)</small>
* Formats: LP, CD
| 95
|-
! scope="row"| ''Medicine''
|
* Release date: 9 March 2009
* Label: Wagram <small>(#3141012)</small>
* Formats: CD
| 110
|-
|}
== Instruments used on stage ==
* Burt plays: [[Novation]] [[X-Station]] and [[Kaoss]] Pad 2
* Lolita plays: [[Roland V-Synth]] (with its [[D-Beam]] system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and [[Akai]] [[Music Production Center|MPC]]
* Karmil plays: Blueridge sunburst dreadnought acoustic guitar (Contemporary Series), Gibson Les Paul standard and a [[Patrick Eggle]] Berlin Pro V.
* Both guitar and bass use line 6 pods.
* Ableton Live is used to run triggered drum loops and samples
==See also==
* [[Neneh Cherry discography]]
== External links ==
* [https://myspace.com/cirkus CirKus] on [[Myspace]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Neneh Cherry}}
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[[Category:Trip hop groups]]
[[Category:English electronic music groups]]