The Postal Service is an indie electropop band based in Seattle, Washington, United States, which started life as a side project for singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. The group formed, in 2001, after Gibbard contributed vocals for a song on Dntel's album Life Is Full of Possibilities called (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan.
Flotel is the nom de plume of Leigh Toro a resident of Nottingham UK. His debut album 'Wooden Beard' was released on Expanding Records in 2005. the 12"ep 'Bosso Fataka" can be obtained from Arable Records. Leigh is also a member of 'Mountebank' an electronic audio/visual performance collective who can be found playing live at various venues around the UK.
Leigh has also started a label with Morgan Caney called 'Laboratoire Plastique' and the first 7" is ready for immenent release (more details to follow)
Based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, Gareth Hardwick creates music that is at once rich and minimalist, dense and subtle. By manipulating the natural tones of his guitar with effects and loops he can deform and reshape the sounds generated by his instrument until you're no longer sure what you're hearing - an organ, a voice, or no recognisable instrument. Between abstract sounds, fragile and delicate melodies reveal themselves to you; finding yourself lost in intricate textures you are suddenly awoken by an absence of structure or sound, of something that one can hold on to.
Sophie Solomon is a singer-songwriter/violinist born in the United Kingdom, who fuses many different musical influences into her music. Sophie Solomon began playing the violin at the age of two. At four she met Yehudi Menuhin and was taken to see the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. For the first five years she played totally by ear, learning to read music at the age of seven. Even though the National Children's Orchestra and ProCorda said she was one of the most promising violinists of her...
For Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina Thorén (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). Carina Thorén has a background in, sculpture, design and performance art. She has also played in the groups Satellite Book and Trigger Happy & Performing
Apes producing free form jams out in the Czech forest akin to No Neck Blues Band or Jackie-O Motherfucker. John Chantler released his first solo record ‘Monoke’ on ROOM40 back in 2003 whilst living on the rural Japanese island of Shikoku. He also showed up playing
Wolfgang Voigt is an electronic music artist from Cologne, Germany, known for his output under various aliases on a plethora of record labels, including Warp, Harvest, raster-noton and Force Inc. Although widely known as a tireless producer, he is best known for co-founding the influential German microhouse label Kompakt alongside Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape.
Aliases include: All, Auftreib, Brom, C.K.
Fledgling work, embryonic pieces, works in progress.
www.myspace.com/allofthesefeathershaveplumes http://www.facebook.com/pages/These-Feathers-Have-Plumes/118987745827?v=wall&viewas=901280231 Of Endings and Beginnings. C-30 Cassette release in Ltd. edition of 46, now available on Period.Tapes (www.periodtapes.com)
RinneRadio is a trio of musicians from Finland. Operating on the boundaries of jazz and electronic music, the output of RinneRadio has been described as "some jazz, plenty of techno and ambient influences, a few poppy melodies, and hints of world music". The biography on the band's website provides this description of the music they produce: "RinneRadio fuses electronic underground beats with progressive jazz.
Boards of Canada are an electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, formed in 1986 and comprised of brothers Mike Sandison (born 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born 21 July 1971). They have released a number of works, most notably the studio albums Music Has the Right to Children (1998), Geogaddi (2002), and The Campfire Headphase (2005) on the pioneering electronic music label Warp. Their fourth album Tomorrow's Harvest was released in June 2013.
William Basinski (Houston, 1958), a New York-based classically-trained clarinetist and saxophonist, specializes in compositions for loops and drones. He began experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies with Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (1980), released on Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (Durtro, 2002 - Die Stadt, 2004), and A Red Score in Tile (1979), released on A Red Score in Tile (3 Poplars, 2003).