Heather Leigh Murray is a very active performer, playing and recording solo, as well as with Scorces, Charalambides, Taurpis Tula, Dream/Aktion Unit, Jandek etc. Her main instruments are pedal steel and voice. She is currently romantically involved with, as well as member in the same band (Taurpis Tula) as WIRE contributor David Keenan, who also owns and operates the influential record store/distro/label Volcanic Tongue.
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Looking (and often sounding) as though they've been sent directly from central casting, the psych-folk octet Feathers originate from the same fertile New England climates that generated the wayfaring likes of Tower Recordings and the MV & EE Medicine Show. The arrival of their debut album on Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic's Gnomonsong label has not gone unheralded...
Charalambides are a musical group originally from Houston, Texas, USA and lately of Austin, Texas. Formed in 1991 by Tom Carter and Christina Carter, adding Jason Bill and Heather Leigh Murray, they have followed in the footsteps of other Texas psychedelic music artists such as The 13th Floor Elevators, The Red Krayola, and Jandek. Their music contains elements typical of psychedelic music such as reverb, extended instrumental jamming and the use of found sounds, as well as elements of noise, avant garde, folk, and drone music.
Montreal-based trio Valleys is comprised of Marc St Louis, Matilda Perks, and Pascal Oliver. In 2006 they self-released their debut album, Night War, and bought a 1986 Volvo station wagon to live and tour in. Their official debut album, "Sometimes Water Kills People", was released on Semprini Records in September 2009. A three-song EP called "Stoner" was released digitally in November 2010 on Semprini.
http://www.myspace.com/valleysvalleysvalleys
Plankton Wat is the solo sound world of Dewey Mahood, founding guitarist of Eternal Tapestry. Playing modern guitar soli inspired by the tradition of Fahey and Basho, and contemporary players Richard Bishop and Makoto Kawabata. Beginning as a home recording project in 2001, Mahood has slowly built a collection of highly personal music that has filtered out into the underground via tape labels such as Stunned, Digitalis, and Sloow.
Amen Dunes, the solo project of Damon McMahon, began with recordings made in the fall of 2006 in upstate New York. Those tapes were initially put on the shelf as personal recordings he never intended for release, and the following summer, McMahon moved to China and all but stopped making music. He would live in Beijing for the next few years, writing and recording only occasionally. With the release of DIA on Locust Music in 2009, however, he decided to move back to the States and form a band around Amen Dunes.
Stuart Masters creates fusion and psych folk-inspired music, blending instrumentation and influences from West to East. The debut album, 'One last look around', is available now.
www.stuartmasters.co.uk
Stara Rzeka (Polish for Old River) is a side project of Kuba Ziolek of Ed Wood and Innercity Ensemble. He released the album "Cień Chmury Nad Ukrytym Polem" in 2013.
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
Formed June 2006 in Leigh-on-sea. Core members; Steven Collins and Jo Lepine, augmented by Nancy Wallace (of The Memory Band), Dom Cooper and Diana Collier. Single biggest influence; Paul Giovanni - an outsider who sensed what was at the heart of traditional British music, grasped it and created a sonic masterpiece combining traditional elements with his own trad-inspired original material. The Owl Service wouldn't exsist without him.