Wil Bolton is an artist working predominantly with sound. His work combines electronic tones with digitally processed acoustic sounds including field recordings and musical instruments. He has exhibited in a number of exhibitions, including A Thing About Machines, Coventry (2009), Trading As
From The Isle of Wight. Musical brothers to The Bees no doubt, THE SHUTES make kaleidoscopic pop-psych to woo girls by. Tracks like 'Hits Like Mourning' show that the young three piece know their way around a marketable pop song, while 'To You, I'm Me' has a frazzled-epiphany-at-3am sound that recalls early Primal Scream and the livelier end of Spacemen 3. Mini Symphonies for the hedonists then, and ones to look out for in 2009!
Audio terrorists Talibam! is a NYC duo formed by Kevin Shea (member in bands like Storm & Stress, Coptic Light and People) who plays drums, and Matt Mottel (synth).
In 2007, after several limited CDR releases, they released their first CD studio album on Azul Discografica called 'Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts'. For this, they were joined by some of the finest improvisers in New York: Peter Evans (trumpet), Cooper-Moore (piano), Michael Evans (drums), Jeremy Wilms (guitar).
Goribor is a alternative rock band from Bor, Serbia (ex Yugoslavia). Having performed as a teenage band called Projekat from 1988 until 1992, after a four-year hiatus, the band was reformed in 1996 by the founding members, the vocalist Aleksandar Stojković St and guitarist Željko Ljubić Pity with the guitarist Predrag Marković Peđa. Until 2003 they had been making home-made demo recordings eventually released through the Croatian independent record label Slušaj Najglasnije!, after being discovered by the head of the label Zdenko Franjić.
Sophie Solomon is a singer-songwriter/violinist born in the United Kingdom, who fuses many different musical influences into her music. Sophie Solomon began playing the violin at the age of two. At four she met Yehudi Menuhin and was taken to see the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. For the first five years she played totally by ear, learning to read music at the age of seven. Even though the National Children's Orchestra and ProCorda said she was one of the most promising violinists of her...
Cibo Matto is a New York City-based band formed by two Japanese women, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in 1994. Despite being based in the US rather than Japan, they have strong links with the shibuya-kei scene in their use of sampling and mixture of trip-hop and rock, but stand out amongst other such artist for their particularly strong use of Latin and South American music. Cibo Matto is an Italian phrase that means "crazy food".
P.K.14 - Beijing based post-punk band. The abbreviated name P.K.14 is a continuous play on words. Primarily standing for Public Kingdom for Teens (??????), known to also stand for Pent Kilowatt One More Than Thirteen, Pelikan Kraut Seven Times Two and Psycho Killer Two Less Than Sixteen amongst others... Vocals - Yang Haisong (???) Guitar - Xu Bo (??) Drums - Jonathan (??? Bass - Shi Xudong (???)
History Of Guns are an English hybrid band combining elements of industrial, punk, electronica, rock, avant-garde and goth who formed in 1996. Their name comes from the title of one of their earliest songs, written about the Dunblane massacre.
Toluene is the new project by lenis23 (Also of God's Azolla) and Electro-Phil, both previously of Biz Baz Boz. After messing around creating purely improvised Biz Baz Boz albums, Lewis and Phil are in the process of writing new, serious material for an upcoming full length album, which will be available for free download on Last.fm. The new album will consist of music written by both Lewis and Phil independently, as well as collaborations, resulting in a wide range of sounds and moods, drawing from an equally wide range of influences such as acid house...