Stian Westerhus
Cheveu
Parisian trio Cheveu create sounds in the heat of drugged out vibes and post-punk charisma. The band also pulls the sentiments of experimental executions and juxtapositions, exploiting the limitations of lo-fi in a way that encapsulates chaos into a fragment of order.
Stranger Son of WB
From Manchester, England. Album Einstein's Getaway available on White Box. 2009 www.myspace.com/strangersonofwb
strangersonofwb@yahoo.com
Infinite Livez
Infinite Livez, MC, ex-Bethnal Green, now Berlin-based.
The enigmatic Infinite Livez truly is at the extreme, taking existentialist hip-hop to a whole new level of, er, existence! He has released a solo album on Big Dada in 2004, and 2 subsequent collaborative releases with Swiss minimal-electro-jazz group Stade, as well as numerous side-projects and experiments. * Infinite Livez vs Stade: "Art Brut for da Yoot" (2006)
* Infinite Livez vs Stade: "Morgan Freeman's Psychedelic Semen" (2008)
**NEW LIVE ALBUM OUT: 12 March 2009
Sheik Anorak
Hailing from Lyon, France, Sheik Anorak is a one man band, in which guitar, bass and drums are played by Frank (who also plays in SoCRaTeS, Hallux Valgus, Kandinsky and Lweis Karloff).
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
Wardruna
Wardruna is a Norwegian musical constellation set out to explore and evoke the depths of heathen Germanic wisdom and spirituality. Musically Wardruna has its main focus on the cultic musical language found in the near-forgotten arts of galdr, seidr and the daily acts of the cultic life, mixed with impulses from Scandinavian and Nordic folk music. They formed in 2003 in Bergen, Norway. The album entitled ‘Gap var Ginnunga’ is the first in a planned trilogy that will interpret the runes of the Elder Futhark.
Celan
Celan is the brainchild of Ari Benjamin Meyers (Einsturzende Neubauten, Redux Orchestra) and Chris Spencer (of Unsane fame). They met in Berlin during an Unsane tour and immediately got interest in creating a project to combine and melt their completely different backgrounds (classical, avantgarde, industrial, noise and hardcore). Phil Roeder, Franz Xavier (ex-members of flu.ID) and Niko Wenner (guitarist extraordinaire from OXBOW) completed the line-up that recorded the debut album Halo in 2009.