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Japanese psychedelic trio from 1996. Mitani Masashi, Miyake Jirou and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise).
Japanese psychedelic trio from 1996. Mitani Masashi, Miyake Jirou and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise).
The spiritual beginnings of Right Hand Left Hand occured when both members heard Trans Am for the first time in a dingy club in Groningen. While both members feature heavily in a number of Cardiff based bands, RHLH is the opportunity to break out on their own, experimenting with loops, random instrument swaps and attempting to find out how heavy is too heavy...
There are several artists named Fjords: 1) Fjords are Tyler Taormina and Jon Davies, a drone/ambient/experimental guitar and keyboards duo from Boston, MA. Recordings available at http://fjords.bandcamp.com 2) Fjords is http://www.myspace.com/fjordsmusic from Corvallis. 3) Fjords is also an indie tropical experimental ukulele music project out of Munich,Germany/Sarasota,Florida.
1) Amen Corner was a successful British rock group, formed in late 1966 in Cardiff, Wales. Named after Amen Corner, a small residential area on the edge of Bracknell in Berkshire. Initially they specialised in a blues and jazz-orientated style, but were steered by their record companies into more commercial pastures. Their first singles and album appeared on Decca's subsidiary label Deram, but they left at the end of 1968 to join Immediate, where they were instantly rewarded with a No.
Ivan has made quite an impression on live music fans in his adopted city of Cardiff in recent months, gaining attention from BBC Radio Wales DJs and Radio 6 new music champion Tom Robinson along the way. The Mine Canary EP captures the world weary ache that flows through Ivan’s songs, delivered with a trademark vocal tenderness that demonstrates an intriguing maturity and intelligence of a young man finding his own way in the world.
There is at least two bands with the name Sicknote:
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"Something freaky is festering in the back streets of Cardiff, something strange that has not yet been classified by science or the NME. The world at large has yet to hear about it, but those that frequent the underworld are aware that it is growing at a pace that will make it unstoppable once it breaks out. Like a hospital super bug it is highly contagious and those that have been in contact with it have been sent into uncontrollable bouts of dancing and been compelled to phone in sick the next day...
Sweet Baboo a.k.a Stephen Black formulated in the hills of North Wales some 10 or 11 years ago, initially as a way to impress girls and to waste Sundays. Locked inside his parents’ loft he would noodle and tinkle with his Casio keyboard, a 10 pound Tandy microphone, a little four track recorder and his father’s guitar. The culmination of this experimentation was the first two batches of Sweet Baboo songs. Firmly rooted in Welsh Psychedelic Pop (S.F.
Owen plays guitar and sings.
Nicholls plays guitar and bangs the drums sometimes.
Greenberg bangs the drums alot.
Max plays the bass guitar.
Ciara sings. http://joannagruesome.bandcamp.com/ We like: My Bloody Valentine, Velocity Girl, Rocketship, Boyracer, Beat Happening, Halo Benders, Field Mice, Dinosaur Jr, Tiger Trap, Pastels, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf, Guided by Voices, Jesus and Mary Chain, Galaxie 500, I hate myself, The Hated, Nirvana, Bikini Kill, Heavenly, Frumpies, Henry's Dress, Shangri-las...
Cardiff based duo Laura and Gareth make lovely acoustic lo-fi pop which they wouldn't be ashamed to call just a little 'twee'.