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Callisto

There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Callisto is a Finnish experimental metal band (Turku, Finland 2001-present). Trying to fit the post-metal outfit Callisto into one single category hardly does the band justice. Founded in 2001, the sextet play a timeless, downbeat yet melancholic style of music that is rich in nuances, draws from numerous sources and doesn't really have any obvious fellow creatures or points of comparisons.

Read more about Callisto on Last.fm.

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Bad Orb

Bad Orb is a town in Hesse, Germany. It is also the non-song mong of Sarah Albury's unconcious (Polly Shang Kuan Band, Leopard Leg & Jettatura). Sounds of terradactyls hatching, neanderthal conversation, swamps, junkyards, singing microwaves and exhaust fans are pieced together as wonky fragments of dreams from dark and murky mind craters.

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Barry Walsh

Walsh studied classical piano with Carol Stone and W.O. Smith at Tennessee State University; played gigs with Roy Orbison and Jimmy Webb; wrote songs for Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, The Amazing Rhythm Aces and others, and spent 25 years making a living in Nashville recording studios.

He has toured Europe with Gretchen Peters eight times since '04, and continues to record and tour internationally and domestically with her.

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The Fron Male Voice Choir

Formed in 1947 primarily to compete at the newly formed Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the choir has a history to be proud of. Throughout its sixty years of existence “The Fron” has achieved regular competition success both in Britain and abroad. Success on the competition stage include wins at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, BBC choir of the Year to name but a few, and it has gained international wins at festivals in Germany, Athens and Malta. They have had concert tours in Canada, USA, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Ireland and Cyprus.

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Vangelis

Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, Greek: Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) is a world-renowned electronic composer and musician. He was born on March 29, 1943 in Volos, Greece. He is best known for compositions such as the Academy Award-winning 1981 theme to the movie Chariots Of Fire, the entire score to the movie Blade Runner and the themes used in the soundtrack of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. His first musical effort was in the late 60s in his country of birth, a locally popular band called Formynx.

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Kol Simcha

Kol Simcha is a band playing mostly klezmer and jazz music, founded in 1986 in Basel, Switzerland. It is composed of
* Michael Heitzler, clarinet
* Ariel Zuckermann, flute
* Daniel Fricker, bass
* Olivier Truan, piano
* David Klein, drums In 2003, the band has been renamed The World Quintet, together with a new musical repertoire.

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Cardinals

1) Southampton-based Indie/Math Rock band.
Formed in 2009, Cardinals are due to release a highly anticipated debut E.P in March 2011 and are already gaining a growing reputation in Southampton and the surrounding areas. Similar to Brand New, Minus the Bear and Moving Mountains. www.myspace.com/cardinalsbanduk 2) An Ambient/Post Hardcore/Progressive band from Bath/Bristol, UK. Previously known as Aurora. www.myspace.com/ukcardinals 3) A local Melbourne hardcore band from Australia.

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Loreena McKennitt

Canadian singer/composer Loreena McKennitt is self-managed, self-produced and head of her own record label - Quinlan Road. In a recording career spanning three decades, McKennitt's “eclectic Celtic” music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales awards in fifteen countries across four continents. Her most successful record is 1997's "The Book of Secrets", which spun off the single "The Mummers' Dance", a surprise hit on American Top 40 and alternative rock radio.

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Brendan Perry

Brendan Perry was half of one of the most successful and enduring acts in 4AD's history: Dead Can Dance. He spent 16 years searching the world for meaning and knowledge through music in partnership with Lisa Gerrard, then turned his attention to a solo record which would continue this exploration. Although Eye Of The Hunter was released in October 1999, Brendan began work on the album while Dead Can Dance were still active - the idea was inspired, in part, by his incredible solo performance during 4AD's 13 Year Itch celebrations at the ICA in 1993.

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Northcape

Northcape is the ongoing work of a British artist, and can broadly be described as downtempo melodic electronica. Northcape self-released his first CD in 2005, following this with a second independent release ('Detach') in 2007 and an EP ('Some Bright Valley') on the monotonik netlabel. Northcape's latest album is Captured From Static, released by Sun Sea Sky Productions on April 6th 2010. The aim is to express ideas and evoke environments, landscapes and memory rather than to focus on the technology and techniques used.

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