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BLK w/BEAR
Based: Washington DC, USA Website Bio: Based in Washington DC, the BLK w/BEAR project first garnered glowing reviews and international airplay for the thought-provoking and moving Wish for a World without Hurt collaboration with London's Rothko and the limited edition fahrenheit_drafts 12-inch single (Trace Recordings). Their audio has accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London and selections from Wish for a World were used in the Discovery Channel's poignant The Flight that Fought Back program. |
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Norman Westberg
Based: New York City Website Bio: Norman Westberg will be a name familiar to many for his work with Swans from the 1980s to the present day, but his output extends well beyond that group.The New York City-based guitarist has more recently been making a name for himself via solo recordings of great depth and subtlety. His recent releases have a rare ability to echo both the clarity of minimalism and the maximal intensity of the best overdriven rock bands; fundamentally, there is always a lightness of touch to Westberg’s compositions. MOJO:“Sinister, long-form drone works; chilly soundtracks for lone trips into the frozen north.” |
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Mia Zabelka
Based: Vienna Website // Facebook Bio: Mia Zabelka is a noise artist,composer and experimental violinist and vocalist fromVienna,with Czech,Jewish and French family background. After completing her training with a strong classical emphasis, she continued to construct and explore the limits of sound and music in a language entirely her own, based on the de- and reconstruction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range of the instrument using live electronic devices and innovative performance techniques. Pauline Oliveros - “A wondrous violinist who takes adventurous journeys into uncharted musical territories.” |
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Mark Harris & JOHN 3:16
Based: Philadelphia, USA & Birmingham, England Mark Harris website // JOHN 3:16 website Bio: Mark Harris is an artist, musician and programer based in the West Midlands with a strong interest in systems and generative processes in music. JOHN 3:16 is the nom-de-plume of Philadelphia, USA-based Philippe Gerber, former frontman with Heat From A Dead Star. Seamlessly bringing together personal influences ranging from dark ambient, the heavier end of shoegaze and electronic systems music, their collaborative album Victory Over The Sun is an immersive soundworld that integrates the best of their solo work. |
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brave timbers
Based: Newcastle Website // Facebook // Twitter Personnel: Sarah Kemp - violin, piano, tenor guitar Andrew Scrogham - piano, 6 string acoustic guitar LCR are proud to be releasing the new album form brave timbers, in collaboration with Gizeh Records who are handling the LP edition. 'Hope' is the second album by the Newcastle-based band, originally the solo-project of multi-instrumentalist Sarah Kemp. This is their second album following 2010’s ‘for every day you lost’, which quickly sold out its limited pressing. Sarah is joined on this album by Andrew Scrogham and together they recorded ‘Hope’ in a Victorian concert hall in Salford. Their music has also been featured on Second Language’s ‘Minute Papillon’ and ‘Music & Migration’ compilations alongside Peter Broderick, Vashti Bunyan, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran. |
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We Mythical Kings
Based: Dundee, Scotland & Manchester, England Personnel: Raz Ullah - synths and effects Peter Philipson – guitars and effects Bio: We Mythical Kings are a duo committed to atomizing the sonic potential of experimental electronics, magnetic recording techniques and free-improvisation. The 16 tracks on their debut release Visitations reveal fragmented analogue synthesizer protractions, fathomless oceans of black drone and snatched moments of prepared guitar serenity. |
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A.R.C. Soundtracks
Based: Manchester, UK Website // Facebook Bio: A.R.C. Soundtracks are based in the north of England and their sound marries bleak, unsettling drones to distant tribal percussion and disembodied spoken-word vocals. The haunted, blown-out sonics of their debut album Archive: Volume One gained much praise in 2014 (Echoes & Dust: "A deep, resonant atmosphere reminiscent of Demdike Stare, Svarte Greiner and even Swans."). A 2016 cassette release on Sacred Tapes is followed up in September 2017 by a new album 'DERELICTION//MIRROR' released via Gizeh Records' Dark Peak series and a European tour. |
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P J Philipson
Based: Manchester, UK Bio: P J Philipson is a guitarist and producer who plays in Starless & Bible Black (Locust Music) and The Woodbine & Ivy Band, but his solo debut on Little Crackd Rabbit Records will surprise his long-term fans. Melodic, rhythmic, inventive and spacious, Philipson's playing on this album takes its cue from innovators like Robert Fripp, Vini Reilly, Robin Guthrie, Michael Rother and Richard Skelton, but has a fully-realised concept unique to itself. Each track is titled and based around locations in England's Peak District, creating a strong sense of place and emotional attachment. |
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Hypnodrone Ensemble
Based: Berlin, Germany Website Bio: Hypnodrone Ensemble are a thrilling semi-improvisational study in rhythmic, psychedelic, atmospheric spacerock. They comprise Canadian experimental/ambient guitarists Aidan Baker (Nadja, B/B/S, Caudal) and Eric Quach (aka Thisquietarmy), who have frequently performed and collaborated together, alongside a triple drummer battalion of David Dunnett (Canada), Jérémie Mortier (Belgium), and Felipe Salazar (Colombia). They have performed at Incubate Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands and have previously released via Belgium's Consouling Sounds label. Their forthcoming release The Shape Of Space also adds bassist Gareth Sweeney (Caudal). |
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Black Walls
Based: Toronto, Canada Website Bio: Black Walls is the solo project of Toronto-based musician Ken Reaume. His early releases comprised a mixture of finger picked melodies (nylon and electric), ambient synths and delicate vocals. More recently, however, his music has moved into a reverb-heavy soundworld in which one can hear echoes of the artist’s fondness for powerful music from the drone-folk, black metal and post-rock worlds. His work treads a careful path though, threading together multiple ideas without being beholden to a single genre. Black Walls has played live with kindred spirits such as Low, Six Organs Of Admittance, Stars Of The Lid, Owen Pallett, Bill Orcutt and Chelsea Wolfe. The project will be touring around the release of Communion on LCR in Autumn 2014. |
