Listing Ships are a quartet from East Oxford inspired by the precision of Tortoise, the sonic palette of Holy Fuck and the explorations of krautrock. Dave Balch - drums Mike Bingham - guitars, keyboards Stuart Fowkes - bass, keyboards Jim Hey - guitars
Pikelet is a band from Melbourne, initially just the name for solo artist Evelyn Morris (Baseball, True Radical Miracle), who begun playing music in indie and hardcore bands as a drummer and vocalist. After leaving these bands, she started overlapping acoustic guitar, piano accordion, voice and alternative percussion techniques with a looping pedal, and created a handmade demo CD, 'Chair + Lamp', unofficially released in mid-2006, followed by another self-released EP, entitled...
The Pattern Theory were originally founded in Leeds, England in 2006 by Carl Schilde, Lukas Creswell-Rost and James Yates. After the release of our first EP, "EP1", we set out on a nationwide UK tour in September 2007. Tracks from this EP have been played on BBC's Radio One and on stations in the USA, Australia and Germany. This has led us to higher-scale gigs, such as playing together with Damo Suzuki (Can) and supporting American bands such as The Drift and Icy Demons in Germany. James also plays drums in The Declining Winter.
Clorinde was formed in the year 2005 in the city of Glasgow , Scotland by two Italian brothers Andrea Salvatici and Simone Salvatici.
Their musical roots lie around the town of Florence , Italy . Each one of them had formed a number of music projects in the late 90's exploring a variety of music styles, from Punk and Experimental to Ambient/Noise and Electronica, with a particular interest in video art. Both Andrea and Simone have been developing their skills in a wide range of musical instruments since an early age.
Brokeback 2011 consists of Pete Croke, Jim Elkington, Chris Hansen, and Douglas McCombs. They've spent the past winter and spring working on a new batch of songs. This fall they'll be playing the first Brokeback shows since 2008. More later... Brokeback is the name of Tortoise bassist Douglas McCombs' side project. In 1999, he released the project's first recording, Field Recordings From the Cook County Water Table, which revealed a slightly less constricted version of the post-rock sound Tortoise had made famous.