Mike Westbrook (born Michael John David Westbrook 21 March 1936 in High Wycombe, England) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces. He became a key figure in the development of British Jazz in the late 1960s. Westbrook spent his childhood in Torquay and went to art school in Plymouth where he began his first bands with such musicians as John Surman, Lou Gare and Keith Rowe.
Arctic can refer to two bands. 1. ARCTIC is an electropsych/space-rock band from Vancouver, Canada, formed in 2001.
2. Arctic is a rock band from Brisbane, Australia, formed in 2007. ------------ 1. ARCTIC draws much of its sonic inspiration from the vast expanses of the northern landscape where frontman Marcus Martin was raised. Growing up in Yellowknife, Martin would join his father, a pilot, on trips to remote settlements and camps in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Hollow Moon is a Brighton-based project currently featuring Jake Fern, Steve Barber (of Celebricide), and David Davis (aka Feline1). Forthcoming album "Closer than the Blood" is due for release on Bad Nurse Recordings Earlier incarnations of the band were known as The Rains
House of the Famous Poet is a Melancholy Indie band based in Leicester UK.
Night Genes is the musical brainchild of Eric Ingersoll, who began writing these songs in his notebook as he took in rainy summer days in England, crowded city streets in China, and trips home. And that
The Spyro from Helsinki, Finland, are a variant option to the Anglo-Saxon indie scene from the arctic latitudes with their intensive indie rock. The band combines Scandinavian action to the nordic melancholy and serve you something fresh. "With an electrifying sound that catches your attention The Spyro are the band to watch this year" - Maggi Robinson, Presenter of the The Classic Rock Show - http://www.blackdiamondfm.com (Midlothian, Scotland)
Mojave 3 are a dream pop/folk band which formed in Reading, England in 1993. The band consists of Neil Halstead (vocals, guitar), Rachel Goswell (vocals, guitar, bass), Simon Rowe (guitar), Alan Forrester (organ, vocals), and Ian McCutcheon (drums). Goswell, Halstead and McCutcheon were previously members of the shoegaze band Slowdive. The band initially existed as a trio consisting of Halstead, Goswell, and McCutcheon (hence the "3" in their name).
Au Palais are originally from Toronto but formed in Tokyo in 2009. The brother-sister duo are now located in London. The Tender Mercy EP will be released 28 November 2011 on The Sounds of Sweet Nothing. www.aupalais.bandcamp.com
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Now that his work with The Orb has earned him a place in electronic music history, Fehlmann is afforded the artistic license to transcend all previous boundaries. His musicality and experimentalist drive converge with exceptional grace and system-bumpin' appeal. Granular hip-hop grooves and exotic chord structures interface with bold, synthetic finesse, while his housier inner child locks down some precision dance-floor cuts immersed in fluidly manipulated filtration.