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Artist: Phonic
Artist: Hooked on Phonics
Artist: U-Phonics
Artist: Bi-Phonic
Artist: Something Phonic
Artist: Cool Bop Phonics
Artist: The pHormula
The pHormula is a four part Hip Hop entourage including; pHonics (Producer/Beat Genius/Performance DJ) pHilosophy(Emcee) Examine(Producer/Emcee) & AlpHaMatic(Emcee). The pHormula is self-described as being a pHoreign yet pHamiliar style which flows from the roots to the leaves of the tree of Hip Hop. [+] Read More
Artist: Hollowphonic
Forming in Toronto in June of 1996, this group of musicians and friends created a small but loyal following with its sonic landscapes resembling everyone from Jane's Addiction and Portishead to the Cure and My Bloody Valentine. In July 1996, the group began performing outside its rehearsal space and continued performing in and around Ontario. In... [+] Read More
Artist: Vladiswar Nadishana
Vladiswar Nadishana is a russian virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and composer from Siberia in direction of modern world fusion and ethnic jazz. He plays on more than 50 instruments of the world, including self-invented. He is laureate of the international festivals "Ustuu-Huree", "The Sayan Ring" and "New Songs of the Old Lands", and he is also... [+] Read More
Artist: The Mollys
One of the contemporary folk music's most eclectic bands, the Mollys were conceived by longtime friends and musical collaborators Nancy McCallion, the group's chief songwriter and penny whistle player, and Catherine Zavala, guitar and mandolin player. With the addition of bassist Dan Sorenson, drummer Gary MacKender, and accordion, guitar and... [+] Read More
Artist: The Jigsaw Seen
Co-founders Dennis Davison (ex-United States of Existence) and Jonathan Lea (ex-Revolver) originally met in 1986 after Lea answered an ad Davison had placed in a local paper. Davison had been looking for a lead guitarist to join his then-current band Playground, whose members had moved to L.A. from Maryland. The duo's friendship flourished into... [+] Read More
Artist: Devin Townsend
Industrial metal singer/guitarist Devin Townsend was born May 5, 1972 in Vancouver, BC; after picking up the banjo at age five, at 12 he moved to guitar, and within a few years was leading the band Grey Skies, later known as Noisescapes. Sending the group's demo to the Relativity label, Townsend was not only offered a solo deal but was also... [+] Read More
Artist: Vinko Globokar
Avant-garde trombonist and composer Vinko Globokar has written over 80 works, from solo to chamber to opera, many of which explore the voice and speech and leave room for improvisation. He has premiered works by composers such as Mauricio Kagel, Toru Takemitsu, and Louis Andriessen. His technique on his instrument is such that many compositions... [+] Read More
Artist: Ray Anderson
A boisterous trombonist who has greatly expanded the range of the trombone and is masterful at multi-phonics, Ray Anderson's playing is often hilarious. His main fault is a tendency to repeat the same joke over and over again, namely "look how high I can play." Anderson began playing the trombone when he was eight and early on had a wide variety... [+] Read More
Artist: Janek Schaefer
Londoner Janek Schaefer began deconstructing music at the tender age of six, when he assembled a sound collage called "Journey." After studying architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, he continued his sound art experiments with a piece called "Recorded Delivery," which premiered at a London exhibition organized by Brian Eno and... [+] Read More
Artist: Viva Voce
Kevin Robinson (drums) and Anita Robinson (vocals/guitars) formed the indie rock outfit Viva Voce in their native Muscle Shoals, AL, in 1998. Viva Voce (pronounced VEE-vah-VOH-chay) is the Italian definition for "by word of mouth." Hooray for Now marked the husband-and-wife duo's first album before the year's end. Headlining club dates and... [+] Read More
Artist: Bill Stix and the Revenuers
Bill Stix was born - entirely through no fault of his own - in Minneapolis Minnesota to a Norwegian-Lutheran-Minneapolis father and Irish-Catholic-St.Paul mother, thereby becoming a perfect composite of the Twin Cities population of the time (1958). His musical "talent" was first noticed in a positive sense when he became part of the Sixth... [+] Read More
Artist: Drepung Monks
Shamanism, ceremony and religion provide the foundation for the Drepung Loseling Monastery Monks, a group of multi-phonic singers who trace their origins to a monastery established near Lhasa, Tibet in 1416. Reaching out to an audience beyond the monastery walls, since 1990, the group has captured the world's attention. Their debut album,... [+] Read More
Artist: Michel Portal
Multi-instrumentalist (clarinets, saxophones, bandoneon, etc.) and composer Michel Portal can be considered as the father figure of the French modern jazz scene.
Classically trained, Portal gained notoriety through his association with various modern and contemporary music composers. His performance as the featured soloist on Pierre Boulez's... [+] Read More
Artist: Dj Stex
Dj Stex
Stefano Ricci Bologna,26-2-73
www.myspace.com/djstexofficial
djstex@youngnrg.eu
Author, composer, sound engineering, manager, producer.
He works since 1989 organizing tours and productions, collaborating with agencies and different radios: since that year, with “Kiss Kiss Radio”,... [+] Read More
Artist: Åke Hodell
The experimental Swedish composer Ake Hodell began working in the early '60s and was still composing work up until his death in 2000. He produced many works in text-sound composition, which was a style definition the artist was responsible for coining. Text-sound composition is the collage of field and locational recordings, with an emphasis on... [+] Read More
Artist: Da Preachaman
I was destined to serve God! From the very beginning, He put me in a time and place in which I would be needy and so would seek to fill that empty place. I was born Al Deshion Nezy on October 21, 1972 in Compton, California. It was just my Mom and I in a bad neighborhood with a lot of odds against us. I was left with a number of sitters while my... [+] Read More
