Mancunian trio of strange types. Indie art punk with a sprinkle of Alan Lomax recordings.
"Some of their songs sound like The Fall on laxatives and some sound like The Monks overdosing on Red Bull."
Arcturus is an avant-garde metal band from Oslo, Norway featuring many prominent members of the Norwegian black metal scene from bands such as Ulver, Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Borknagar, The Kovenant, Emperor, and Winds. Arcturus have experimented throughout their career, extracting influences and incorporating elements from all over the musical spectrum including black metal and classical music, but the core of their sound has always been metal.
Kiran Leonard fornicates instruments and makes jazzy/pop things. used to release electronic things under this name, but now under the name Pend Oreille. His new single 'A Purpose' will be released on the 16-track LP 'BOWLER HAT SOUP' in late November/December. It can be downloaded here.
The Cherry Blues Project was formed in 2001 as a soundart project in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was created by two members that use the pseudonymns Cherry and Blues. The music of The Cherry Blues Project involves a lot of styles, scattered throughout their 100 albums, 150 singles and EP's. As a band, they rarely perform live.
There are three artists that record under the name Arca: 1) An experimental/glitch project of Nuuro, aka Alejandro Ghersi, a Venezuelan producer. His albums under the name Arca include: Stretch 1, Stretch 2 (released 2 giveaways on UNO) and the 2013 mixtape &&&&&. He has also been credited for his writing/producing efforts on Kanye West's album Yeezus. http://soundcloud.com/arca-2
2) arca is a french project initiated by Joan Cambon and Sylvain Chauveau at the beginning of the year 2000.
Puma is an improvisational group based in Trondheim, Norway, who play music drawn from rock, noise, elektronica and jazz. Puma consists of Stian Westerhus on guitar, Gard Nilssen on drums, and
Jeremiah Cymerman is a remarkable clarinetist and conceptualist who now resides in Brooklyn. He has performed and recorded with Matt Welch, Sam Kulik, Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone among many others. The bulk of his work centers around creating a new language for the clarinet through extended techniques and the manipulation of microphone placement and Pro Tools editing. His debut album, In Memory of the Labyrinth System (2008), presents several radical studio compositions that take the sonic language of the clarinet to some startling and surprising places.
Fulborn Teversham are an experimental jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford (Polar Bear, Acoustic Ladyland), with tenor sax from Pete Wareham (Polar Bear, Acoustic Ladyland), Nick Ramm on keyboards and Alice Grant on vocals. Their music blends cool jazz and bebop with rock and periods of sheer surreality. Grant's powerful gospel-rock vocals combined with Wareham's fearsome sax, all add to the brilliance and oddness of the mix. But Teversham's experimentation is not at the deficit of tunes.
Kym Mazelle (born Kimberley Grigsby in 1960, in Gary, Indiana, U.S.) is an American soul music singer. She was brought up and lived on the same street as the Jackson family and knew Michael Jackson's mother and uncle. Early in her career, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she enjoyed major success in the European house music scene, and performed as a member of Soul II Soul. However she is probably best known as the singer of the cover version of the song "Young Hearts Run Free", in the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
Bill Frisell was born in Baltimore, but was raised in Denver, CO. Once a classical clarinetist, he established a firm base in his traditional harmonic knowledge early on in life. Throughout high school and college he also played guitar in various rock and R&B groups in the Denver area. During high school, however, he became profoundly interested in jazz guitar. In 1971 Frisell attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and also began studying with Jim Hall, one of the prominent jazz guitarists of the 1960s.