Skin Graft is the long-running solo harsh noise project of Wyatt Howland (Dead Peasant Insurance, Jerk, Relentless Corpse, Gloria, Stark Holy MAA) based in Cleveland, Ohio active since 2004.
Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. Richter creates his music using scratchy shellac and vinyl records, field recordings, a so called "kitchen gamelan," and more traditional instruments like organs, guitars, pianos and mbiras. The layering and hypnotic repetition of short loops from Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Vaudeville, and various other old recordings reveals alternative melodic dimensions not apparent in the source material.
John Kennedy the musician, was a five year old in Liverpool the day the President died. In Australia at the age of ten, he took the confirmation name of Francis to complete the famous "J.F.K." moniker. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The joke has long since worn off for him, but it still takes some explaining. A young enthusiastic journalist once described John Kennedy as a humble genius. Kennedy is neither a genius nor particularly humble.
Internationally renown Christophe Fellay has composed, directed and performed his creative brand of music for everything from theater,dance, cinema and concerts to performance art, written word and music festivals the world over. In addition to performing as a featured act at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Christophe has played around the world from Europe (London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Paris, Nantes, Dijon, Zurich, Berne, Geneva, Montreux) to the United States (Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, New York.
Michael Forrest is a solo multi-instrumentalist producer based in London. His influences are far reaching, from instrumental hip-hop through ragged electronica to jazz and classical music. The sound is asymmetric, polyrhythmic, often atonal, sometimes dark, sometimes relaxed, sometimes very very tense, but always fun. Multi-instrumentalist Forrest plays all his own instruments - the keyboard, the trumpet, cello, drums, decks and anything else he can lay his hands on.
The Time Attendant, a rank for life.
Yuan Mekong uses musical production to create complex, evocative environments using fractured and glitched electronica, with a hint of pop. Allowing the deep soundscapes to evolve and show the fragility and futility of humanity.
Rainbow Down is an electro/homo/solo artist based in Nottingham. After spending many years as the vocalist and lyricist of several different bands (including melodic hardcore band Escaping Skies) that all crumbled due to frustrating external factors, Rainbow Down took it upon himself to start writing his own songs. After being shown and learning some basic programming from various friends and musicians, he used a combination of Reason, Audacity and an mp3 player's microphone to start producing his music at the tail end end of summer 2008.
UK duo Spaceheads have released 7 albums on such labels as Merge, BiP_HOp, Pandemonium Rdz. Andy Diagram (trumpet) and Richard Harrison (drums), take their unique sound, based on live trumpet loops, drums and electronics, to greater sonic extremes.
Lazy grooves and thick harmonised trumpet chords; sleazy deep beat brass and crushed up metallic drumbeats. Spaceheads mix the raw emotional sound of breath with the banging of wood on skin, and push it through the blips, crackle and distortion of pixelated electronic noise.
Seaworthy refers to at least two different groups/projects : 1. Seaworthy, a three-piece collectivefrom Sydney, Australia that primarily revolves around core member Cameron Webb as well as Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, was formed in early 2000 to explore melodic and experimental approaches to the construction (and unravelling) of minimalist soundscapes from looped guitar, warm drones, piano, electronics and field recordings.