There is more than one artist called Quartz. 1) Quartz came out of the British hard rock hotbed of Birmingham to join the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement in the late '70s. With a lineup that included John Bonham-associate Mike Hopkins and future Black Sabbath keyboardist Geoff Nichols, they were actually founded under the name Bandylegs but changed when Jet Records showed interest in the band.
Ana-Maria Avram (born September 12, 1961 in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer working in the field of spectral music.
BODY&SOUL (bc presents, uaf/AUT) Body&soul was formed in 2004 by Robert Stefan and Michael Willer. Both have been involved with music from birth on in many different projects from rock-bands to classic orchestra, from djing to event management. In the year 1998, whilst robert was working to establish a local dnb-scene as a dj and promoter, michael went to the audio-engineering college in vienna. Both knew each other for a long time before but it was drumandbass music that made them team up and eventually start working on music together.
There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Coma is a Polish alternative rock band, founded in 1998 in Łódź by Dominik Witczak (guitar) and Tomasz Stasiak (drums). The first album "Pierwsze Wyjście z Mroku" was released in 2004. After winning the Rock Festival in Węgorzewo the band became very popular in Poland. The second album, "Zaprzepaszczone Siły Wielkiej Armii Świętych Znaków" was released in May 2006.
Bubu was an Argentinean progressive band that only existed during some years in the late seventies and that only released one album called Anabelas. Although recorded in 1978, the album was not released until 1983 due to censorship from the dictatorship government at that time.
Bubu´s music is very intricate and original making their style hard to categorize. While Avant garde might be the best description, it still would not be enough, as this band also takes elements from Jazz, Symphonic prog and even some Zeuhl.
There are at least 12 bands called Magnolia: 1) Female Country Duo. > www.magnoliacountry.com
2) Romanian quality disco/pop band > www.magnoliamusic.ro
3) French trip-hop band that released "Intravenus".
4) New Zealand breakbeat/electronica/dub band.
5) Israeli post-rock/metal band.
6) Swedish rock band.
7) A Quebec band led by Melanie Auclair, cellist from Lhasa De Sela.
8) An italian screamo band from Torino's underground scene.
9) Japanese band led by Maiko Kishi (mai-Magnolia), Tsuru Onishi (g.), Toshiyuki Kasahara (b.), Kyoichi Shiino (dr.)
Michael Cretu, also known as Curly M.C. (born May 18, 1957 in a suburb of Bucharest, Romania), is a Romanian musician best known as the creator of the Enigma project. His original name, Cre?u, means "the curly-haired". He has worked with many producers, musicians, and artists in his long career. These include Sandra Cretu, Frank Farian, Boney M, Goombay Dance Band, Peter Cornelius, Manfred "Tissy" Thiers and Mike Oldfield in his pre-Enigma days, and Jens Gad, Frank Peterson, David Fairstein, ATB, Jam & Spoon, Peter Ries, Ruth-Ann Boyle and Andru Donalds during the course of the project.
1) Spike - Spike is a romanian hip-hop artist. He was born in 1985. In march 2002, he launches his first song and starts his early recordings. He sends a demo to Cosa Nostra band and they accept him on their next album. That album was never launched. In 2003, Spike sends a demo to Roton and they ask him for more songs. After he sends the second demo, no answer came back from the music label. After two months of nothing, Spike receives a phone from Roton announcing him that the song "Nimic Personal" has entered the Loop Records compilation. And from here it begins.
My Actions Your Exit is a four piece pop punk band hailing from Glasgow, Scotland. (www.myspace.com/myactionsyourexit )
Silent Strike (Ioan Titu) is a Romanian electronica/filmscoring artist born in 1982. He released 3 albums ("Silent Strike" - 2005, "3AM" featuring Lucian Ban and Alex Harding - 2008, "alb"-2009) at LaStrada Music label and collaborated with numerous musicians and producers from Romania,USA,Norway and UK (Mat Maneri, Gunhill, Alexandrina, Ada Milea, Maria Radu, CTC, Kazi, Specii, Yvat, bln, Vlaicu Golcea, Electric Brother, DJ Vasile and many more).