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Miri

There are at least three artists named Miri:
1. A singer/songwriter from England
2. A rock band from New Zealand
3. A post-rock band from Iceland 1. MIRI from London, England, recently signed to digital acoustic label Reel Me Records. Miri started pursuing music aged 16, before going on to produce beats and sound arrangements for MCs and other vocalists. Now an experienced songwriter and singer has been making her way up in today’s music industry for over a decade, not only producing her own music, but co-writing, performing with and supporting many other well-known music artists.  

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Mick Turner

Mick Turner is a musician and painter from Australia. Aside from his role as guitarist of The Dirty Three, and Tren Brothers with The Dirty Three's drummer, Jim White, he has released several records to his own name entitled: "Tren Phantasma" , "Marlan Rosa" , "Seven Angels" , "Moth" and "Blue Trees" . All of these album's artwork are painted by him as well as the Tren Brothers and most of the Dirty Three's album artwork too.

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Slint

Slint was a math rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland) and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). They formed in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 1986. Though they disbanded circa 1991, they are considered to be a major influence on the , , and scenes. Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by legendary engineer Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989.

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The Mantra Above The Spotless Melt Moon

The Mantra Above The Spotless Melt Moon is a young band hailing from the south of Italy. Producing haunting and progressive rock music (a kind of post-rock with vocals) this is a band capable of attracting interest from many people with very different tastes, such is the diversity in The Mantra songs. Currently signed with English label RareNoiseRecords, they are about to release a 4 track EP, "Rooms", featuring the collaboration of Eugene Robinson of OXBOW.

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Avrocar

Avrocar hail from the city of Birmingham, UK. They have received airplay and recorded a session for the late John Peel and have also been featured by Mary-Anne Hobbes and Rob Da Bank of BBC Radio 1. Avrocar have released records since the mid 1990’s and are part of the truly independent UK label collective Make Mine Music, who are heading towards their 50th release in autumn 2008. What follows is an account of the recording of the new album by mentor and long-time confidant Lew Monick - “I...

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gravitysays_i

Gravitysays_i was formed in March of 2003 by Manos Paterakis and Nikos Retsos in Piraeus. Their aim was to accompany their aspirations and their living with melody, in a country that devours its children, as well as to explore the quality of difference, as the two founding members perceive the notion. Their first appearance in discography came with the album entitled “the roughest sea” (2007), released on Sirius, the label that was founded by Manos Hatzidakis, the famous Greek composer. It is comprised by 9 compositions inspired by egotism, vanity and the isolation of modern man.

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Kontinuum

1) Kontinuum Icelandic Ambient Metal
Kontinuum started as the brainchild of Birgir Thorgeirsson, a founding and current member of dark metal act Potentiam. The seed of Kontinuum started way back in 2001 when Birgir teamed up with former Potentiam drummer Kristjan Heidarsson to record an EP called Burned and Battered under the band name Pornea. This was an experimental metal project mixing doom with punk and dark atmospheric metal.

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Leyline

Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil (2000 - present) Luiz & Gabriel Esteves's Leyline is a path to modern, experimental and alternative music made in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil with no connections to any recording companies. For the first Leyline CD (Project One), released in 2001, Luiz invited his son Gabriel Esteves, who was only 14 at that time. After listening to an astonishing guitar solo played by Gabriel, Luiz realized that the young boy had to be the official guitar-player for Leyline. "Project One" contains 15 instrumental tracks.

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Giants

There are at least 7 artists titled Giants.. One is a late sixties/early seventies krautrock act who recorded the track 'He He Ho' that is featured on the 1987 "Kraut! Demons! Kraut!' collection. The next is a house/disco house producer releasing one 12" vinyl in the early 1990s. The next is a funk/soul band releasing a self-titled full length on MCA Records in 1978. Another is a disco/funk band releasing a 12" vinyl in 1979 on Polydor.

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