Aaron Moore is an Englishman residing in Brooklyn, New York who plays music with instruments & devices. His primary instruments are drums, voice & trumpet but he generally considers any instrument (or object) playable in one way or another (...)
At the beginning of the 80’s, the experimental musician from Paris Thierry Müller, known under the Ilitch stage name, decides to launch a new dance project called Ruth. The result is a conceptual experimental new wave album entitled Polaroïd/Roman/Photo, released in 1985 (...)
Matt Jencik is a musician based in Chicago who currently plays guitar in the band Implodes that released the album Black Earth on Kranky in 2011. Jencik has been performing and recording since the early 90's with bands such as Hurl, Don Caballero, Thee Speaking Canaries & Taking Pictures as well as playing bass on the 2007 Slint Spiderland tour and guitar for the 2009-2010 Papa M Live from the Shark Cage tour (...)
Jeremy Lemos is an American sound engineer and musician living in Chicago. He is the touring sound engineer for many bands including Sonic Youth, Pavement, Iron & Wine, and The Shins (...)
Ken Camden is a Chicago based guitarist whose favorite themes include diversity, transcendence, and joy. He released his debut solo LP Lethargy & Repercussion on Kranky in March 2010 (...)
Matthew Hale Clark (American, b. 1775) is a Chicago-based guitar player and artist, unknown for his work as 1/2 of the psychedelic drone duo White/Light (on Steve Shelley’s Smells Like Records) (...)
Silencio is a musical project created by Julien Demoulin in the early 2000's and presently based between Brussels, Belgium, and the north of France. The project focuses mainly on ambient music and its different expressions; be they post-rock, field recording, or drone influenced. Mixing electronic and electroacoustic elements, it explores themes such as absence, distance, memory and sleep (...)
Larkian, aka Cyril Monnard, is a Lausanne based guitarist who uses his instrument as a sound generator. With the help of real-time loop-samplers and various effect processors, he constructs a musical world made of deep, powerful and intense soundscapes, with a fluctuation of atmospheres between the symptomatic pain and the feverish excess of an underlying madness. Since the project started at the end of the nineties, several Larkian albums and EPs (solo works & collaborations) were released on different labels, such as Tricycle Evolutif, Dead Vox, October Man, Cathedral transmissions, Silent flow, Adozen, Three:four and Basses Fréquences (...)
maninkari is an instrumental duet combining improvisation and original composition, with a hint on ambient, gloomy, minimalist, jazz, rock and surreal sounds. Their music delivers instrumental organic layers made of ancestral, dark and repetitive tunes that blend percussion instruments, viola, cimbalom, keyboards, and samples to reach mysticism at its climax. Rooted in Bathyscaphe, maninkari also wrote the score for two short-movies: 'Des nuages au bout des doigts' from Simone Massi and 'Call baker' from Dan Salzmann (...)
absent without leave is the solo project of George Mastrokostas, based in Athens, Greece. Recording everything mostly by himself or sometimes with assistance from some good friends, he produces a sound that has at times been described as a mix of shoegaze, post-rock, ambient and electronica. To date, he has released his music on labels such as distant noise records (uk), unlabel (uk), chat blanc records (canada), awkward silence recordings (uk), thisquietarmy records (canada), symbolic interaction (japan), october man recordings (uk), friend of mine records (japan), duotone records (japan), bsbta (denmark), fuzzy panda recording co (...)
We don’t know much about Richard Youngs – apart from the fact that he’s British and that he’s been living in Glasgow for 20 years – but we are much aware of his musical works. Either as a solo artist or with side projects, Richard Youngs writes very different kind of music, simply impossible to label under any specific genre (...)
Annelies Monseré has been playing music solo since 2000. Initially the music was piano-based and mostly instrumental (...)
Swiss composer and guitarist Julien Baillod (aka Bio) was born in 1972. After being involved in post-rock and jazz-punk bands, he is now evolving on different kinds of underground scenes, from post-rio to contemporary and electronic avant-garde. He is also writing music for plays, performances and movies and is involved in contemporary art, working on sound installations and soundtracks with/for Arthur de Pury, Martin Widmer, Jeroen Visser, Anthony Bannwart and Eric Thomas. Larkian, aka Cyril Monnard, is a Lausanne based guitarist who uses his instrument as a sound generator (...)
scott cortez does not consider himself a guitarist, but uses the guitar to generate textural colors, dronefields, soundscapes, and loop environments. scott cortez was behind the pioneering post-shoegaze, ambient band [lovesliescrushing] and has released music on various comps and labels over the past two decades (...)
thisquietarmy is the solo project of guitarist Eric Quach from Montreal. He is also the guitarist and founding member of the Montreal-based instrumental rock band Destroyalldreamers (...)
Who else than its manager, Daniel Fontana, can better speak about the Bad Bonn ? "Bad Bonn is a small, tan-colored and homely restaurant, surrounded by a sparely gritted parking lot and meek cows on wild meadow. From the veranda, you have a view on the Fribourg Prealps, and a small walk from there leads you to the shore of the Lake Schiffenen, the natural border between French and German-speaking Switzerland (...)
.cut featuring Gibet is a two-man band featuring Albérick (.cut) on laptop and Gibet on guitar. Formed in 2003, this project is the result of the encounter between these two musicians during a semi-improvised gig in Lyon (...)
The Fun Years are Ben Recht and Isaac Sparks. The duo began their collaboration during the fall of 2003, creating music for a friend's Halloween party in Cambridge, MA (...)
Behind the ali_fib moniker (a little wink to Robert Wyatt's 1974 classic Rock Bottom) is a crew of programmers founded in 2003 by music critic and curator Maxime Guitton, later joined by Benjamin Tellier in 2006, and Jérôme Boutinot in 2008. Within the past five years, ali_fib has organized some fifty shows and four festivals in Paris, in a dilettant fashion, nomadically and independently, and in a variety of spaces: music venues, squats, churches, crypts, art galleries, and museums (...)
White/Lichens is the ongoing collaboration of Chicago-based Lichens and White/Light. Lichens is the solo project of Robert A.A. Lowe, bass player/singer in 90 Day Men and Singer (...)
:take: is the solo project of Jérôme Boutinot, a guitar player based in Paris. From drone to more structured melodic patterns, :take:'s music flows in arid landscapes, surreal textures and melodic rushes, somewhere between Mick Turner and Stars of The Lid (...)
