There is more than one artist with this name: 1. A Bulgarian ambient/psychedelic DJ and artist.
2. An Indie Dance Punk Band from Phoenix AZ / Calexico CA
3. An American Metal Band from Virginia.
4. An experimental rock band from Perth, Western Australia. 1. Therapist(Nikola Efremov) started listening to electronic music in 1997 after getting an album of Astral Projection and he was dazzled by the sounds and the unique vibes.
As a virtuoso bassist, versatile composer, and acclaimed bandleader, Marc Johnson has been a major innovator on the jazz scene for the past two decades. Born in Nebraska in 1953, Johnson took up bass at the age of 16, having already studied piano and cello. While completing his formal education in the celebrated music program at the University of North Texas, at age 19, Johnson began performing professionally with the Fort Worth Symphony. In 1977, he was on the road with the Woody Herman Band.
p jørgensen is a composer & sound artist based in copenhagen, denmark. his current work is primarily based on heavily computerprocessed acoustic instruments and field recordings which are turned into luminous textures, crystalline tones and vibrant ambient drones.
"recalling an early experiment at the age of twelve that involved overdubbing worn cassette tapes so many times that several recordings were heard on top of each other, j ørgensen has been devoting his pieces to a study of composition, chance, and the intersection between the two for the past few years.
http://magdalenasolis.com Lush warm sonic swells, all wreathed in thick swaths of serious psych guitar, the sound constantly shifting from tranquil and dreamlike, to blown out and druggy/droney and way tripped out, heady and hypnotic and easily some of the best kaleidoscopic kosmische space/drone/psych we've heard.
- Aquarius Records
Based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, Gareth Hardwick creates music that is at once rich and minimalist, dense and subtle. By manipulating the natural tones of his guitar with effects and loops he can deform and reshape the sounds generated by his instrument until you're no longer sure what you're hearing - an organ, a voice, or no recognisable instrument. Between abstract sounds, fragile and delicate melodies reveal themselves to you; finding yourself lost in intricate textures you are suddenly awoken by an absence of structure or sound, of something that one can hold on to.
1) Based in Athens, Greece, AZA attempts to tweak ordinary sounds & sights to match his ordinary everyday experience. 2) There is another band called Aza, playing Tamazight (Berber) influenced music out of Santa Cruz, USA. Their 2003 debut album is called "Marikan" and they recently released a second album "Tamgra Wushen", both available from CDBaby. The band's site is: http://www.azamusic.com/
Several artists have released recordings under the name of GAS: two electronic music composers, Wolfgang Voigt and Mat Jarvis, furthermore a Japanese hardcore band, and lastly a rock-band from Germany. 1) Wolfgang Voigt of Kompakt Records, Cologne, who created hypnotic, bass-driven ambient/minimal techno on the German label Mille Plateaux. Says Voigt of his music: '(This is) music without beginning and without end, cushioned contours that fall softly into the space that seem to overrule temporal schemes.