HERDER comes from Groningen, the Netherlands and makes sludgy stoner doom without comprosis: HERDER = HARDER!
HERDER IS:
NICO : Vocals & Smokes
JB : Guitar & Sunn
MARC: Guitar & Doom
JEROEN : Guitar & Blaze
BLITZER: Bass & Booze
TOM : Drums & Fashion
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, composer and performer (born Dec. 29th 1973 in Trondheim, Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2000. Her compositions have been performed by Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arve Tellefsen, Cikada and Vertavo string quartets, Quatuor Renoir, ticom, Crash Ensemble, Torben Snekkestad, Spunk, Frode Haltli and Poing among others.
Since 2006, UK artist Richard Skelton has been releasing small run documentations of his own musical explorations through his Sustain Release label. These recordings are always exquisitely packaged, in materials and imagery that really invoke the feel of the recordings locked away on the discs.
Place and space play a big factor in Skelton’s creative process, transporting the listener to the environment in which the music was originally recorded.
Long Arm took up music when he was a kid. In music school he studied how to play piano. He was really impressed by a DJ