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Ecstatic Sunshine

Ecstatic Sunshine is an ongoing musical project that began in 2005 as a guitar duo comprised of Matthew Papich and Dustin Wong (who has since left the project to pursue Ponytail and his own solo guitar musics). Ecstatics has released 3 LPs and 2 EPs since that time and has performed hundreds of shows in the United States and Europe with a revolving group of players. Currently, Ecstatics live performances are solo endeavors by Papich.

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Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay (born May 28, 1953, Richmond, Virginia) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He's probably best known as a founding member of the influential no wave band DNA, though his work after DNA has been quite prolific. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style comprised almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey"; his guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes.

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leiwand - singer-songwriter

experimental jazz electronica arto lindsay

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Bill Frisell

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.

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a true master of sound

modern string quartet

joe-henderson-joes-bolero

pnw

guit

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Isnaj Dui

Standing somewhere between modern classical and electronica, Isnaj Dui (real name Katie English) has spent the past four years provoking much interest from fellow electroacoustic artists for her unique blend of acoustic instruments and electronically manipulated effects. With numerous appearances at various events including Arctic Circle, disco_r.dance and Fear of Jazz alongside many sessions on Resonance 104.4fm, Isnaj Dui has built up a strong following. English's recorded work has also received much critical acclaim from various reviewers including Wire magazine and White Line.

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Weasel Walter

Weasel Walter is an experimental drummer and composer. He is most famous as the leader of The Flying Luttenbachers, but also leads other projects such as the Weasel Walter Sextet. He began playing in Chicago in the early 90s, and has subsequently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he has lived ever since. Weasel Walter can most frequently be seen playing drums, although he plays bass, started out on guitar, and has taken saxophone lessons from Hal Russel.

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Samuel Blaser

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world's end girlfriend

World's End Girlfriend is a Japanese composer whose work blends complex sound structures with beautiful melodies, reaching from electronic glitch to jazz-infused rock to modern classical. Captivating, enthralling and like nothing you’ve heard before, WEG makes for a surprising yet central addition to London contemporary music label Erased Tapes. His brand new album ‘SEVEN IDIOTS’ will finally be released outside of Japan this April.

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contemporary classical

Instrumental music that makes you feel-group tag radio

darker than the deepest sea

experimental electronic

creepy sounds of the future

robots have feelings too

techno

the illest nigga on the block

i am a child in a field and i grow things in my dreams to wake and water them to go to sleep and raise them from the earth into existence from an idea to physical existence what power what madness a gentle madness an eleven year olds madness

I like tripping while listening to it

instrumental post-rock

a journey of self thought and inner clarification

da da dammmm dammm dammmm

found through audioscrobbler

experimental japanese ambient post rock

unimaginable brilliance

Experimental post-rock

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Garuda

It is the current performing name of Chris Jones (b.1960, Chester, England), an improvising guitarist and electronica artist working in London. His work is mainly improvised, loop-based music. Garuda has also worked with electronica trio Angel Navigator Garuda. 'Garuda' was also a Tech Metal band from Fort Worth, Texas that formed from a few members of 'Slave One' and later borrowing a member of 'El Salvador Birthday Bash,' also from Fort Worth.. They played a pummeling style of Hardcore with plenty of sick old school Death Metal overtones.

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Ensemble Amorpha

Ensemble Amorpha is a London based chamber music ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary music with a focus on living composers which are under represented in the UK. Its members are all extremely successful in their own right both nationally and internationally performing regularly as soloists and orchestral musicians in the UK’s leading orchestras such as the LSO, Philharmonia and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to name just some examples.

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