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Neil Hannon

Neil Hannon (born November 7, 1970) is a singer and songwriter, best known as the creator and lead member of the orchestral pop group The Divine Comedy. The band's official website even goes so far as to say, "The Divine Comedy is Neil Hannon," and Hannon is quoted in an interview as saying, "The Divine Comedy will always be my band because... I thought of it first!" In 2005 he contributed vocals to his long-time collaborator Joby Talbot's soundtrack for the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis started recording in January 1985 and their first public performance was at the West Square Festival in London in July '85. The group was formed by a group of people interested in exploring the possibilities of live electronic music and collective improvisation. Its members have diverse musical backgrounds - Ron Briefel teaches music technology at Morley College, Adam Bohman runs a club for impovised music, Roger Sutherland wrote books and articles on new music...

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Rope

Rope is at least five bands, who do not know each other. A.: from Poland/Chicago, since 1998
B.: from Berlin, since 1996 to present
C: from Brighton, United Kingdom - since 2005 to present
D: from the north of England , United Kingdom since 2008 to present
E: from Brooklyn, NY since 2007 to present A.: it is an electro-acoustic duo comprised of Przemyslaw Chris Drazek on guitar and trumpet and Robert Iwanik on electric bass and vocals.

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Archer

There are several music projects named Archer. 1) If you are looking for Archer from Russia, go to Арчер. 2) American metal trio from Santa Cruz, CA. They play a mixture of heavy metal, thrash metal and hard rock. They say their music is influenced by Black Sabbath, Guns N Roses, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Pantera, Black Label Society and many more classic rock and metal bands and artists. The band released one album: 'Doom$day Profit$' in 2006

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Graham Lambkin

Graham Lambkin first entered the public consciousness at 19 when he formed his band The Shadow Ring, in Kent, England. Lambkin has primarily worked under his own name, most notably with 2007's brilliant Salmon Run, a precursor to The Breadwinner - a collaboration with Jason Lescalleet. Composer Walter Marchetti once made a statement to the effect that he was seeking to reach the "bottom" of music. Some more diligent attention to this task lead him to the music of Graham Lambkin.

Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel (born in Buenos Aires, December 24, 1931, died in Cologne, September 18, 2008) was an Argentine composer who has lived in Germany for most of his career. He was most famous for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance. Many of his pieces give specific theatrical instructions to the performers, such as to adopt certain facial expressions while playing, to make their stage entrances in a particular way, to physically interact with other performers and so on.

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Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino (pronounced juh-kee-no) (born 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an American soundtrack composer who has composed several multi-award winning scores for many popular movies, television series and video games. He attended the Evening Division at the Juilliard School, as well as the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he acquired a degree in film production and a minor degree in History.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen's music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greek and from Hindu sources), and is harmonically and melodically based on modes of limited transposition, which were Messiaen's own innovation. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvellous aspects of the faith", drawing on his unshakeable Roman Catholicism.

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