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There are 2 different jazz musicians named George Lewis's listed here, bios of both follow: 1. A New Orleans based traditional jazz clarinetist (born 1900 - died 1968), a contemporary of Bunk Johnson and Kid Ory, the streaming audio on Last.fm is all by George Lewis 1. 2. A modern computer-interfacing trombonist and composer born 1952 in Chicago who has played with numerous current artists including on Laurie Anderson's album Big Science. Bios

Horselover Fat are named after a character in a book. It's a book that some of Horselover Fat have read all of, some have read some of, and some have read none of. There are at least four of them. Onstage and off, Horselover Fat have played and played with theremins, guitars, bass guitars, toy keyboards, non-toy keyboards, violins, harmonicas, saxophones, xylophones, laptops, desktops, sequencers, sine waves, saw waves, square waves, drums, boxes with things in, and something called a 'kaossilator'.

Sheffield-based improvised/psych/out unit. The Hunter Gracchus is a trio featuring Jon and Fiona who run the Singing Knives imprint alongside Syed Kamran Ali (aka Harappian Night Recordings). The sound is kinda similar to Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides in that the group play free-jazz influenced fourth world trance music using percussion, strings, small instruments and crude folk melodies, though the overall sound has more to do with the kinda abstruse post-punk strategies of ensembles like The No-Neck Blues Band.

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.