Red River Dialect is the guitars & voice of David Morris with Simon Drinkwater on electric guitar, Jack Kindred Boothby on bass, Ed Sanders on violin and Hugh Cowling on drums. They are from Falmouth & Penryn, in Cornwall. Their latest album 'White Diamonds' was released in November 2010, the follow-up 'awellupontheway' was recorded in June 2011 and will be released sometime in the first half of 2012.
Two forest travelers, united by the will form the Holydrug Couple. With a minimal formation they managed to create a bluesy exploration, which takes the audience to a psychedelic trance. Like the rhythm of a train, with mid-tempo songs, they provide the audience a dense and misty energy. Without caring much about the contemporary scene they stand up for their own fascination about blues heroes, indian raga and hidden arts.
A songwriter from the North West of England, Samandtheplants has found his home on the Twisted Nerve label. His music takes a cut and paste aesthetic, piecing together short sketches and home-recorded ideas into long tracks. Samandtheplants mixes everything from folk, Kraut, tropicalia, experimentation and a strong DIY aesthetic.
With the vibe of early Pink Floyd, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Electric Prunes and Spacemen 3 running through their drugged-up veins, Germany's very own Vibravoid excel at synthesizing these influences into a heavy storm of psychedelic sounds, shapes, and colors.
Spawned from the vernal heat of the Florida swamps amidst swirling
patterns of pine orchards and pre-Columbian artifacts, Prince Rama was
whispered into the ears of Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson,
and Michael Collins in the summer of 2007 by the clanging of prayer
bells and goat-skin drums. They left the Hare Krishna farm where they
were staying to go to art school and form a creative nucleus in
Boston. There, their engaging and often unpredictable ritualistic live
shows attracted a rapid cult following, replete with collective
Sebastien Forrester, a French bohemian artist based in Paris, France who traffics within a melange of aliases but whose freshest mask is Holy Strays. Stuttering drum loops, hypnotic keyboard spirals, and melodic fogs that float up then dissipate. The elements are all there gelling up a superlative sound.
Composer Pauline Oliveros is a maverick in the field of electronic music. Oliveros' first instrument was the accordion; as a teenager in Texas she played in a 100-piece accordion group that appeared at the rodeo. In 1949 she entered the University of Houston, but in 1952 transferred to San Francisco State College. Oliveros studied music privately with Robert Erickson and began to associate with a loose confederation of like-minded composers; Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Morton Subotnick among them.