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Artist: Transparent Productions
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Artist: Bipolaroid
Spearheaded by singer/songwriter/guitarist Ben Glover, Bipolaroid play neo-psychedelic music extremely influenced by Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, delivering odes to dissociation, time machines, looking glasses, the fifth dimension, and the like on both space rockers and more fey orchestrated pop-psychedelia. Their debut CD, Transparent... [+] Read More
Artist: 0Dark30
0Dark30 (Steph Anne Best: vox, words, and some music; Pat Palmer: guitars and whatever else you need): a futuristic cabaret combo that specializes in original power pop melodies, glistening and gritty guitar sounds, and the sheer (although never transparent) impact of words that are spoken, sung, and sometimes broken. Oh, yeah...we make films too. [+] Read More
Artist: LaRue
The brother-sister duo Natalie and Phillip LaRue are singer/songwriters aiming to spread the word of God through music and use their last name as their musical tag. First bursting onto the Christian music circuit in the late '90s, LaRue's charming impressions were an instant liking among young people and 1999's self-titled debut sparked the hit... [+] Read More
Artist: Paula Abdul
In the wake of Madonna's success, many dance-pop divas filled the charts, but out of them all, Paula Abdul was the only one who sustained a career. The former L.A. Lakers cheerleader and choreographer began to make inroads in pop music when she was hired as an assistant dance director on the Jacksons' Victory tour, which led to a job... [+] Read More
Artist: Gabriel Fauré
A French organist and composer of orchestral, piano, chamber, vocal, and dramatic music, such as the opera Penelope (1913). Faur‚ wedded the chromatic freedom of the Wagnerian palette with his strong French sensibility for melodic line and transparent timbres, retaining his own compositional voice to create pieces of great beauty. His songs... [+] Read More
Artist: Yung Wu
One of the trio of transparent disguises which the Feelies' Glenn Mercer and Bill Million used during the mid-'80s (along with the Trypes and Willies), Yung Wu only released one album, 1987's Shore Leave. A more rootsy affair than the duo's previous take on angular pop, Shore Leave featured a recent Feelies' recruit, drummer Dave Weckerman, as... [+] Read More
Artist: Baba Sehgal
In India, one performer dominates the rap scene: the Lucknow-born Baba Sehgal. Baba Sehgal's rap is far removed from the sting and grit of Public Enemy, Ice-T, or, to take an example of rap transplanted into another language, French wit MC Solaar. Sehgal's safe, inoffensive pop/rap employs a cutesy-pie image with cheeky Hindi lyrics about... [+] Read More
Artist: Reflection
The first Japanese signings to London's notorious Clear Records, Reflection seem to have more on their minds than simply updating '80s electro with the tweak of '90s technology. A production trio of Ichiro (programming) and Kenji Taniguchi (programming, occasional guitar) with supervisor Nobukazi Takemura, Reflection deals in intelligent... [+] Read More
Artist: Byron Cage
The minister of music at Ebenezer AME (African Methodist) Church in Fort Washington, MA, since 1998, Byron Cage uses his soulful tenor vocals and choir director skills to confirm his faith. Together with his nine-vocalist group Purpose, which he formed in the mid-'90s, Cage has recorded three memorable live albums of spirituals, Transparent in... [+] Read More
Artist: Beckley-Lamm-Wilson
Gerry Beckley of America, Robert Lamm of Chicago, and Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys crossed paths often in the '70s and '80s as their three Los Angeles-based rock bands toured and recorded. The three first sang together in 1990 on a track intended for a Lamm solo album, and that inspired them to try recording a whole album as a trio.... [+] Read More
Artist: Edvard Grieg
A Norwegian composer of folk-inspired works, including incidental music for Peer Gynt (1875). Grieg wrote for orchestra, solo piano, and string quartet and composed the Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in a, op. 16. Norway's most famous composer, actually of Scottish descent on his father's side, Grieg studied the folk tunes of his country in his... [+] Read More
Artist: Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer known for visionary symphonies and piano music, which grew out of his experience with theosophical mysticism in Switzerland in 1903. Driven to express a vision of the future transformation of the world (in a moment of grand, collective ecstasy, not so different from the rapturists of today, though not... [+] Read More
Artist: Attilio Mineo
Space-age pop composer and arranger Attilio Mineo was born in Brooklyn, NY on August 28, 1918; after graduating high school he played piano in a series of big bands, subsequently leading his own orchestra on and off for close to three decades. Regularly writing songs with wife Toni, Mineo often accepted commissioned projects to fund his more... [+] Read More
Artist: Godzik Pink
Blending alternative pop/rock inspirations with dexterous, jazzy inspiring tunes, Godzik Pink delivers inimitable pieces of complex soundings. Embodied by a four-piece crew composed of guitarist Ara Shirinyan, also a member of the Sound of the Soil; Eric Kiersnowski (bass); Jonathan Silberman (tenor saxophone); and drummer Nigel Lundemo, also... [+] Read More
Artist: MG! The Visionary
It took Seattle-based Christian rapper MG! the Visionary over ten years to land a solo record deal, following a stint with partner MO in a group first called the New Life Crew, then known from 1993-1996 as Third Nail Productions (or 3NP). Although 3NP appeared on a compilation titled Sanctifunktifyd, they never landed a deal of their own and MO... [+] Read More
Artist: Jason Morphew
Arkansas singer/songwriter Jason Morphew debuted his folky style of lo-fi rock in 1993 on the Danger/Incredible Hulk EP on Little Rock, AK, label the Parent Trap. In 1994, his song "Losing Stars Against the Moon" was featured on a Brassland Records compilation. Brassland released the Holding Merle Haggard cassette in 1995. "Riddled With Regret"... [+] Read More
Artist: Herb Robertson
Some of his contemporaries may have generated more hype, but there's no better free jazz trumpeter than Robertson. He combines a thorough command of traditional and extended techniques with a prodigious imagination. His voice is utterly original, maybe too original for his own good; many less ambitious trumpeters his age have made bigger names... [+] Read More
Artist: Phillip Johnston
The twisted avant-jazz of Phillip Johnston first reared its head during the early '80s, when the composer and saxophonist was a staple of the downtown New York City underground music scene. There, he performed with a variety of artists both in and out of the jazz community, among them John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Elliott Sharp, Wayne Horvitz,... [+] Read More
Artist: VAN DYKE
Thomas Van Dyke (VAN DYKE aka "VAN DYKE knows all too well the importance of an artist expressing his or her originality. Van Dyke has been in the music industry as a singer, songwriter, musician, publisher, and record label owner for more years than most upcoming artists have been on the face of the earth! Van Dyke Vocalist, Guitarist, drummer,... [+] Read More
Artist: B.J. Cole
Born on June 17, 1946, in London, B.J. Cole was inspired by the instrumental work of the Shadows' Hank Marvin, and picked up a guitar. He worked his way through various versions of the instrument, eventually settling on pedal-steel guitar. During the 1970s, Cole was a sought-after session man, playing alongside Elton John, Scott Walker, T. Rex,... [+] Read More
Artist: Jim Sunweed
Officially the band was formed in October 2003. After long-lasted practice in January 2004 a demo-CD consisting of 2 songs was finished in one of the studios in Saint Petersburg. The first bands gig took place in a local club Friday on 2th of April in 2004.2 drummers and 1 guitarist were renewed while Jim Sunweed (JSW) exists.In April 2006 JSW... [+] Read More
