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Rodrigo Constanzo

Rodrigo Constanzo is an experimental composer and performer living in Manchester, England. He has performed as a solo musician, or as part of various groups for the majority of his life. The most recent being as part of the SOUND festival in Scotland and speaking at the GEM Days festival in Huddersfield. He is also slated to perform at the FUTURSONIC festival in Manchester in 2009. He began his studies in music at the age of four, studying piano with his grandmother, formerly a piano teacher at the Conservatory of Cuba.

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Maja Ratkje

Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, composer and performer (born Dec. 29th 1973 in Trondheim, Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2000. Her compositions have been performed by Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arve Tellefsen, Cikada and Vertavo string quartets, Quatuor Renoir, ticom, Crash Ensemble, Torben Snekkestad, Spunk, Frode Haltli and Poing among others.

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Martin Brandlmayr

Martin Brandlmayr is an Austrian percussionist, drummer, composer and electronic artist. He studied classical percussion at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He is widely recognized for his work in bands: Radian, Trapist, Autistic Daughters, Kapital Band 1 and Polwechsel.

Among others, Brandlmayr has collaborated with Siegrun Appelt, Burkhard Beins, Tony Buck, John Butcher, Peter Brandlmayr, dieb13, Axel Dörner, Christian Fennesz, Franz Hautzinger, Gina Hell...

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Makoto Kawabata

Makoto Kawabata (Kawabata Makoto, 河端 一) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple, guitarist, performer on numerous traditional instruments, composer, improviser, mixing engineer, producer, speed guru. "Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them.

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Trigger

There are several artists using the name Trigger: 1.) Trigger are a rock band (female fronted) from Serbia. They can be found at http://www.myspace.com/bandtrigger. They have just released their first studio album called 'Ljubav' (Love).
trig•ger I ['trigÁ(r)] n obarac, oroz; cin koji inicira odredjen splet okolnosti to pull a ~ povuci obarac; to cock a ~ zapeti oroz trigger II v tr (colloq.) izazvati, pokrenuti, aktivizirati; to ~ a reaction izazvati reakciju

Read more about Trigger on Last.fm.

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Sam Grinsell

Sam Grinsell (born 12th March 1987) is a slide guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. His music is home-recorded and largely improvised, and he has been influenced by a wide range of musicians from slide guitarists Jack Rose and Christiaan Oyens, to classical composers such as Debussy and Bach, as well as jazz greats John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

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Tobias Delius

Tobias Delius was born on 15 July 1964 in Oxford, England. He began playing saxophone in 1980 in the German Ruhr region. In 1983/84 he lived in Mexico City.
Delius moved to Amsterdam in 1984 and studied for a short while at the Sweelinck Conservatorium. He quickly became involved with Amsterdam improvisers and dropped his studies to immerse himself in the improvised music scene.
He has worked in Europe and overseas with such musicians as Steve Lacy (October Meeting ’91), Louis Moholo’s Viva-la-black (South Africa ’93)...

Read more about Tobias Delius on Last.fm.

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