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Mazen Kerbaj was born in 1975 in Beirut and lived there since. His main activities are comics, painting and music. After a lot of works for different publishers and magazines, it is in March 2000 that he releases some of his more personal works in his Journal 1999 (a dairy in comics' format). He self-published eight other books and many short stories since. It is also in 2000 that he plays for the first time in concert, in the Strike's pub in Beirut. This concert, a duo with Lebanese sax player Christine Sehnaoui, is probably the first improvised music concert in the Middle East.

“Luca is a noted Italian clarinettist and composer who now makes his home in London, having developed an enviable reputation as an instrumental virtuoso around the UK and overseas via recordings and concert hall appearances (“Masterful Clarinet!”, Musician Magazine). Clarinet professor at the Leeds College of Music (UK’s largest conservatoire), he is one of the very few jazz clarinet academics in the UK and one of the few to be a specialist of both classical and jazz clarinet at HE Level.

Excepter is an improvised-electronic performance group devoted to the destruction of boundaries between the psychic friends network and reality television. They formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2002.

There are two artists with this name: 1.) A Hardcore/Progressive/Metal band from South Australia and are currently singed to New Justice Records. Led by Bryn Willcox as vocalist, Russell Stewart and Bryce Goldstone on Guitars, Caleb Fleming on Bass and Alex Pepper on drums. http://www.facebook.com/GraveyardsBand 2.) Graveyards is a free music jam squad led by John Olson of Wolf Eyes and Dead Machines, and the American Tapes label.