Breathing through deep waters

 

(Chasms is a Drone/Ethereal band from Los Angeles, CA, who crafts ethereal, percussive dirges that are sparse in arrangement and potent with emotion. Comprised of producer, vocalist, and guitarist Jess Labrador and bassist/vocalist Shannon Madden, the duo layers meditative guitars and electronic drum samples with Labrador’s entrancing soprano to create an otherworldly sound).

 

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Whispers from the frozen plains

 

(Amp is an English Ambient/Space/Drone group based around the core members Richard Walker and Karine Charff. Walker was a member of a band in Bristol called The Secret Garden that incubated a number of groups including Flying Saucer Attack and Third Eye Foundation. In 1992 he left the band; singles from Amp began to come out on a number of small English labels and a debut album called Sirènes was released in 1996 on the Wurlitzer Jukebox label in the UK and a short-lived American label called Petrol).

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Anden flyr maskinen

 

(Michael Idehall is an Industrial/Experimental musician and composer from Göteborg, Sweden; the artistic output of Michael Idehall always strives towards manifesting an opening to a world beyond the mundane. The creative process involves honing in on the nexuses between the flows of mind, matter and spirit. Nexuses which exist inside the human being, but also in the outer world, as conglomerations of energy and matter. In Michael’s creations, this convergence is revealed through the clash of ancient and modern, natural and artificial, and first and foremost the instilling of spirit into object).

 

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Sıcak kumların üzerinde dans etmek

 

(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

 

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Surrounded by energy disturbances

 

(Luster is a Shoegaze band from Los Angeles, CA, formed by Adrian Castillo and Shaun Aguilar; utterly beautiful, yet melancholic - Damaged, yet brand new. A hungry, innovative shine and sheen of the now beyond rich (and often Los Angeles centered) scene of ‘post-post-synth / 80’s revival).

 

 

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Falling in burning feathers

 

(Ceremony is an Alternative/Post Punk/Shoegaze project from Fredericksburg, VA, formed by John Fedowitz, former member of Skywave. It was formed in 2005 with alternating band members.  Currently he shares the stage and recording studio with his wife, Sandra Fedowitz. 

 

In April 2021 they both became members of A Place To Bury Strangers, thus reuniting John with Oliver Ackermann, many years after their experience in Skywave).

 

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Bewegung durch gefrorenen Nebel

 

(Glaring is a Darkwave/Experimental/Post Punk solo project by german musician Anna Nin from None).

 

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Into a dark night ceiling

 

(Ritual Howls is a Darkwave/Post Punk/Shoegaze band from Detroit, MI, formed by Paul Bancell, Ben Saginaw and Chris Samuels. They collect samples of the physical world and feed them with guitar, vox, bass, synth and drum machines to create an aura of darkness over a pop sensibility).

 

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For all the unrealized dreams...

 

(Swans is a band from New York City, New York, United States, active from 1982 to 1997, reformed in 2010, founded & led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. 

Marginally associated with the no wave scene at first, their original sound was slow and extremely heavy, with live performances that were often so brutal and physical that in a number of instances certain audience members were made ill, police were called and venues were shut down. This early physical sound is possibly best heard on the live album Public Castration Is a Good Idea.

Their initial style shifted a little by the time Swans released seminal twin albums Greed and Holy Money. The music had sped up, at times being even more punishing than their earlier output. Drum machines and samples were slightly more prominent. Michael Gira was joined vocally by Jarboe which gave the band a broader sonic range. Tracks featuring Jarboe were often quieter, even pretty, acting as counterpoint to the more harrowing themes on the albums. Over time, this style would come to dominate the Swans’ output, although they somehow seem to have been able to make a strummed acoustic guitar seem as brutal as their earlier amped-up assaults. The lush instrumentation of their albums from the late 1980s and the 1990’s anticipated the birth of post-rock.

Swans eventually broke up in 1997; Gira went on to release some solo work, later forming the band The Angels of Light, who continue many of the themes and styles found in (later) Swans. Jarboe releases solo work and frequently works with other bands and artists; recently she released an album with Neurosis, a group clearly heavily influenced by Swans.

The influence of Swans upon the music world is profound. Across their 15 years of existence, the various styles they explored gave birth to grindcore (Napalm Death, Nasum) modern "cinematic" post-rock (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mono), and atmospheric sludge metal (Isis, Neurosis)).

 

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Ääniä revontulia varten

 

(Radio Supernova is a Finnish Tampere-based Shoegaze/Alternative band, formed by Riku Heikkinen (bass), Tuomas Heikura (drums), Henri Tuunanen (guitar), Otto Kontio (guitar), Mika Multaharju (saxophone) and Kata Riikonen (vocals)).

 

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Doomed machines of sin

 

(Godflesh is an experimental and influential British band, formed in Birmingham in 1988 by former Napalm Death and Head Of David member Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green. They were one of the first bands that combined metal riffs with drum machine rhythms and are highly regarded as pioneers of industrial metal).

 

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Teithio y tu allan i'r terfynau galactig

 

(Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (now MWWB) is a Welch Doom/Space/Psychedelic quartet from Wrexham, North Wales, formed by James Carrington, Jessica Ball, Paul Michael Davies and Wez Leon).

 

 

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Regenerative brain damage

 

(The Telescopes is an Experimental/Shoegaze/Noise band formed in 1986 in London, England, as a vehicle for music written, produced, arranged and performed by Stephen Lawrie featuring like-minded musicians).

 

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الاستمتاع بالرحلة الفردية

 

(Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the project of prolific Lebanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane, a one-man musical force who writes, performs and produces all of its creative output. With a DIY music ethos, Megarbane has crafted an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that effortlessly glides between 1960s Italian library music, Middle Eastern psychedelia, afro-beat and hip-hop breaks).

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深淵の中で眠っている

 

(Shelling is a Dream Pop/Shoegaze duo from Tokyo, Japan, formed by Aya (vocals, guitar, synthesizer) and Shota (guitar, synthesizer).

 

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Langsames Atmen in schlaflosen Nächten

 

(Bohren & Der Club Of Gore is a German band founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The band was formed by members of various grindcore/hardcore and death/doom metal bands. In their search for a "unique sound", they started to play what they call "Doom Ridden Jazz Music".

 

Initially the band was called "Bohren". In 1993, the name was expanded to "Bohren & Der Club of Gore" as a link to the Dutch band Gore, which inspired Bohren to play instrumental music).

 

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Autumn afternoons by the sea

 

(Flying Saucer Attack is an experimental space rock band that formed in Bristol, England in 1992. David Pearce was the core member of the group, and Rachel Brook (of Movietone, another Bristol band) was a member for most of the band's lifetime. 

 

The band were marked by quiet vocals and sheets of feedback with similarities to contemporary shoegazing bands, or The Jesus and Mary Chain. FSA were able to create a small but enthusiastic fanbase as one of the more remarkable experimental bands of the day. The band were notable for recording most of their output at home into a normal home stereo system, avoiding recording studios as much as they could. This gave their music a DIY feel and gave them the freedom to experiment as much as they wanted).

 

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Haunted by ghosts

 

(Nothing is a Shoegaze/Alternative band from Philadelphia, PA, formed in 2010 by Aaron Heard, Brandon Setta, Domenic Palermo and Kyle Kimball).

 

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Проявления невидимой природы

 

(Gnoomes is a Shoegaze/Experimental/Psychedelic band from Perm, Russia, formed by Dima Koniushevich, Masha Piankova, Pasha Fedoseev and Sasha Piankov).

 

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Melodier för resenärer i tiden

 

(Death And Vanilla is an Experimental/Alternative/Psychedelic band formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson; they use vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and Moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych).

 

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Tанцы, чтобы принести мир

 

(Otto Dix is an electro darkwave band from Khabarovsk, Russia. The band was formed in 2004 by Michael Draw and Marie Slip).

 

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Muinaisia ​​rituaaleja jäätyneissä metsissä

 

(Dark Buddha Rising is a Finnish Psychedelic/Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal band from Laitila, founded in 2007, formed by Vesa Ajomo (guitar, vocals), Petri Rämänen (bass, percussion),  Jukka Rämänen (drums, keyboards), Jussi Saarivuori (keyboards) and Marko Neuman (vocals).

 

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Brücken schlafen unter dem Eis

 

(Bohren & Der Club Of Gore is a german band founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The band was formed by members of various grindcore/hardcore and death/doom metal bands. In their search for a "unique sound", they started to play what they call "doom ridden jazz music".

 

Initially the band was called "Bohren". In 1993, the name was expanded to "Bohren & Der Club of Gore" as a link to the Dutch band Gore, which inspired Bohren to play instrumental music).

 

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The deconstruction of the imperishable

 

(A Place To Bury Strangers is a three piece New York based noise rock/shoegaze band, formed by Dion Palmer, Lia Braswell and Oliver Ackermann, who is also famous for his manufacturing of infamous guitar noise pedals used by Lightning Bolt, Serena Maneesh, Wilco, Spoon and TV on the Radio, among others).

 

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Ljudatmosfärer i evig kontinuum

 

(Death And Vanilla is an Experimental/Alternative/Psychedelic band formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson; they use vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and Moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych).

 

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Ääretön terroritila

 

(W424 is an Industrial project from Lappeenranta, Finland, leade by Lasse Alander; musician/producer/visual artist with a long history starting with extreme metal and moving on to industrial music, most notably as one half of Cardinal Noire and as a contributor to Protectorate and Thyjä.

 

W424's current approach to music could be described as sculpted noise, operating on intuition and dream logic. A semblance of song structure is retained, tonal and atonal combined and contrasted. Utilizing modular synthesis, guitar and bass, the modern DAW and the human voice. Pitch black darkness but with fleeting glimpses of illumination).

 

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Cчитать далекие звезды

 

(Gnoomes is a Shoegaze/Experimental/Psychedelic band from Perm, Russia, formed by Dima Koniushevich, Masha Piankova, Pasha Fedoseev and Sasha Piankov).

 

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Perdeleri gökyüzüne fırlat

 

(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

 

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 

 

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them. 

 

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album").

 

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Balkánské podzimní pohlazení

 

(The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is a Czech Shoegaze/Alternative band formed in 1990 by Jan Muchow, Jan Gregar, Petr Wegner, and Irna Libowitz. After a short period, the band moved into ambient and techno-influenced soundscapes.

 

Actually the band are Jan P. Muchow (guitar, bass, programming) and Kateřina Winterová (vocals)).

 

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Godendo attraverso il percorso luminoso

 

(La Casa Al Mare is an Italian Shoegaze/Noise/Psychedelic musical project based in Rome, Italy, formed by Alessio Pindinelli (guitars, vocals), Marco Poloni (bass, vocals) and Paolo Miceli (drums)). 

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Une histoire de dieux anciens

 

(Blut Aus Nord is a Black/Experimental band from Mondeville, Calvados, France, which has incorporated avant-garde elements in its music. Vindsval began a solo project, under the name "Vlad", in 1993. Blut Aus Nord's work has been described as the "sonic equivalent to Thorns injecting Streetcleaner-era Godflesh with an evil unpredictability).

 

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Yellow fumes across the crystal window

 

(Abronia is a Psychedelic/Experimental Rock from Portland, OR, formed by Keelin Mayer (tenor saxophone, vocals), Eric Crespo (guitar, backing vocals), Ben Blake (guitar), Rick Pedrosa (pedal steel guitar), Andrew Endres (lap steel), Dewey Mahood (bass), Amir Amadi (bass) and Shaver (drum, percussion, melodica).

 

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In search of lost souls

 

(Prolapse was a Psychedelic/Post Punk band from Leicester, UK, formed by David Jeffereys (Guitar), Linda Steelyard (Vocals), Michael Derrick (Vocals), Mick Harrison (Bass), Pat Marsden (Guitar) and Tim Pattison (Drums)).

 

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Toucher l'essence de la vie

 

(Big Brave is a Canadian three-piece Drone/Experimental/Sludge band from Montreal, Québec, formed by Mathieu Ball (guitar), Tasy Hudson (drums) and Robin Wattie (vocals, guitar)).

 

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Melodies for the last time on earth

 

(Nothing is a Shoegaze/Alternative band from Philadelphia, PA, formed in 2010 by Aaron Heard, Brandon Setta, Domenic Palermo and Kyle Kimball).

 

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Noise over rain city

 

(Juno was an Alternative/Mathrock/Shoegaze band formed in Seattle, WA,  in 1995. They released two studio albums, disbanding in 2003.

 

The band was formed by Arlie Carstens, Gabe Carter, Jason Guyer and Greg Ferguson).

 

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Cestování světem snů

 

(The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is a Czech Shoegaze/Alternative band formed in 1990 by Jan Muchow, Jan Gregar, Petr Wegner, and Irna Libowitz. After a short period, the band moved into ambient and techno-influenced soundscapes.

 

Actually the band are Jan P. Muchow (guitar, bass, programming) and Kateřina Winterová (vocals)).

 

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We zijn allemaal gek

 

(dEUS is an Alternative band based in Antwerp, Belgium, formed by Tom Barman (vocals, guitars), Klaas Janzoons (keyboards, violin), Stéphane Misseghers (drums), Alan Gevaert (bass) and Mauro Pawlowski (guitar/backing vocals)).

 

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Goroesi yr helfa wrachod

 

(Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (now MWWB) is a Welch Doom/Space/Psychedelic quartet from Wrexham, North Wales, formed by James Carrington, Jessica Ball, Paul Michael Davies and Wez Leon).

 

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الشرب من ينابيع المعرفة الأبدية

 

(Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the project of prolific Lebanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane, a one-man musical force who writes, performs and produces all of its creative output. With a DIY music ethos, Megarbane has crafted an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that effortlessly glides between 1960s Italian library music, Middle Eastern psychedelia, afro-beat and hip-hop breaks).

 

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Холодное северное сияние

 

(Акульи Слёзы (Akul'i Slyozy) is a Russian Shoegaze/Dream Pop band formed by Dilara Akulova (vocals, guitar), Eva Romanova (bass guitar) and Anastasia Velikaya (drums)).

 

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Nur schmerz lässt uns wachsen

 

(Bohren & Der Club Of Gore is a german band founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The band was formed by members of various grindcore/hardcore and death/doom metal bands. In their search for a "unique sound", they started to play what they call "doom ridden jazz music".

 

Initially the band was called "Bohren". In 1993, the name was expanded to "Bohren & Der Club of Gore" as a link to the Dutch band Gore, which inspired Bohren to play instrumental music).

 

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Утопает в разноцветном снегу

 

(Gnoomes is a Shoegaze/Experimental/Psychedelic band from Perm, Russia, formed by Dima Koniushevich, Masha Piankova, Pasha Fedoseev and Sasha Piankov).

 

 

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फ़िज़ी सागर में डुबकी

 

(Megadrone is a Drone/Ambient/Industrial band from India formed by NB (Modular Synth), LC (Guitar) and GK (Guitar, Synth)).

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Remembering childhood times

 

(Barry Gray (1908, Lancashire, England - 1984, Guernsey, Channel Islands) was a British musician and composer best known for his collaborations with television and film producer Gerry Anderson.

Born into a musical family, studied diligently and became a student at the Manchester Royal College of Music and at Blackburn Cathedral. He studied composition under the Hungarian born émigré composer Matyas Seiber.

In 1956 Gray joined Gerry Anderson's AP Films and scored its first marionette puppet television series, The Adventures of Twizzle. This was followed by Torchy The Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls, His association with Anderson lasted throughout the 1960s. Although best known for his score to Thunderbirds (in particular the "March of the Thunderbirds" title music), Gray's work also included the themes to all the other "Supermarionation" productions, including Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90. 

Additionally, Gray is known as the composer for the Anderson live-action series of the 1970s, such as UFO and Space: 1999. His work in cinema included the scores to the Thunderbirds feature films Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), and the live-action science-fiction drama Doppelgänger (1969)).

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Los oscuros pasillos del fin del mundo

 

(Seatemples is a noise/shoegaze Chilean band formed in 2014 mainly influenced by post-punk, shoegaze and dreampop. Their music can smoothly move among noise, harmonies, layers of sound and textures. The band consists of Patricio Zenteno (aka Patricio Temples) on vocals, guitar and programming, Priscila Ugalde on vocals and bass, Moisés Segovia on synth and vocals and Diego Herrera on drums).

 

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Nimettömän kutsuminen

 

(Dark Buddha Rising is a Finnish Psychedelic/Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal band from Laitila, founded in 2007, formed by Vesa Ajomo (guitar, vocals), Petri Rämänen (bass, percussion),  Jukka Rämänen (drums, keyboards), Jussi Saarivuori (keyboards) and Marko Neuman (vocals)).

 

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Dust from the spiritual outback

 

(Miniatures is an Etheral/Shoegaze MBV influenced band from Melbourne, Australia, formed by Annemarie Duff (Vocals/Programming), Ché Walden (Guitars/Bas/Keys/Programming) and Chris Maclean (drums).

 

 

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凍てついた森に迷い込んだ

 

(Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, 1930-1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation^.

 

He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop) in Japan, a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.

 

His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century Japanese composer. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him).

 

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La tristeza de los sueños inconclusos

 

(Resplandor is a Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Noise Pop band from Lima, Perú; currently based in The Netherlands (1996-Still Active); the band is formed by Antonio Zelada (vocals, guitar, sampler), Luis Rodríguez (guitar, bass, e-bow), Wilmer Ruiz (keyboards), Bettine Solf (vocals, bass) and Christopher Farfán (drums).

 

The band toured Europe last autumn 2019 playing in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia; in Lima, they have opened the shows for The Cure, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Slowdive, The House Of Love, The Ocean Blue, Ulrich Schnauss, Robin Guthrie, Mark Gardener (Ride), The Radio Dept. and more).

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