Ken Cormier began his career as a recording artist & performance poet in Ann Arbor in 1995 with the self-released cassette tape God Damn Doghouse. 

Club-goers soon became enamored with Cormier's wild performance style. His accessible melodies, percussion-driven arrangements, adventurous lyrics, and frantic fiction readings rated highly among audiences and critics in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and back in his native New England. 

With his trademark boom-box background tapes and his jerky, spasmodic gyrations, Cormier is instantly striking. He is quirky and inventive, with a subversive sense of humor. 

Growing up in Bristol, Cormier waded through the classic rock riffs and new-wave hits of the '80s. He became an expert in colonial-era snare drumming, began writing fiction, poetry, and pop music, and now claims influences as diverse as Chaim Soutine, Buddy Rich, Virgil, and the Shaggs.

With the publication of his first book,  Balance Act, and the long-awaited CD release of God Damn Doghouse in 2000, word of this unique artist has made the rounds among fans of freakdom around the globe. He toured the US and Canada in 2000, and in 2002 ELIS EIL is proud to release Cormier's second CD, Radio-Bueno.