A song of unfinished despair

 

(The Fauns is an Alternative/Noisepop/Shoegaze band from Bristol,UK., formed in 2007 by Alison Garner (vocals), Michael Savage (bass), Thomas Adams (drums), Elliot Guise (guitar), Matthew O'Connor (keyboards) and Lee Woods (guitar)).

 

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Rituale per invocare l'oscurità

 

(Senketsu No Night Club is a project stems from an idea by Adriano Vincenti determined to push his research into a new level; inspired by extreme Japanese cinema, Adriano aims to bring together Japanese Power-Harsh drifts with jazz doomnoir atmospheres that he masters since a very long time.

Next step was to involve in such a project Giovanni Leonardi who was also passionate in such artistic expression.

The two than decided to ask also the support of English saxophonist Ian Ferguson, who takes care of all wind instruments. But the initial psychoanalysis of the project is Japanese filmmaker Furachi Life, she delivered one of his poems on band's debut album and took care of all the images and entire inspiration of the project. 

Everything was condensed in these episodes that end up overcoming the stereotypes and gender boundaries, there is a language where jazz, trip hop, kraut rock, end up merging with industrial debris of uncompromising power-noise, evoking the most disturbing images of the rising Sol cinema).

 

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Screaming again power abuse

 

(Thurston Moore (25/9/1958, Coral Gables, Florida) is a guitarist and vocalist; he lived in New York City for most of his music career and was taught guitar by Glenn Branca. Thurston is best known as the guitarist and vocalist of Sonic Youth which he co-founded in 1981 with his ex-wife bassist Kim Gordon. In addition to performing music, he also runs the Ecstatic Peace! label).

 

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Gefahr einer unmittelbar bevorstehenden Kollision

 

(Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited is a Swiss instrumental duo which toys with influences of surf, electronics, library, and space age/exotica, formed by Ernest Maeschi and Karen Diblitz).

 

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Tónlist til að dreyma um eldfjöll

 

(Hekla is a virtuous theremin player and composer from Reykjavík, Iceland; as a creative tool, the theremin - bizarre, unique, and rarely heard - can be expressive, intuitive and highly adaptable. In Hekla's hands, her instrument covers an enormous range, from skittering birdsong of high frequency chirrups and chirps, to grinding, tectonic sub-bass).

 

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Admirer la nostalgie de l'automne

 

(Heimat is a French Experimental/Electronic duo formed by Olivier Demeaux (Cheveu, Accident du Travail) and Armelle Oberlé (The Dreams, Badaboom); sometimes very martial like a marching music, sometimes very lyrical, the Heimat's musics are going deeper in these weirdo landscapes, using cinematographic scores and samples over layers of urban cultures, in order to open the gates of the dreamy gazes and the shadowy stories).

 

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Atalardan kalma gelenekleri modernize etmek

 

(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.

 

In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.

 

Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana). 

 

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Всередині Храму Спустошення

 

(The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections is a Dark Jazz band from Dnipro, Ukraine; their sound is a blend of dark ambient, jazz and down-tempo music, with a taste of mystery.

 

The band is formed by Jol Tai (Alto Sax, Guitar, Vocal, Poetry, FX),  XАд`A (Bass, Vocal, Poetry) and Ariza Ryu (Keyboards, cover art design).

 

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In the lands of eternal punishment

 

(Five the Hierophant is an instrumental Experimental rock/Metal/Dark Jazz band from London. The band was formed around 2014 by Chris Hancox, Krzysztof Włodarski and Mitch Barret).

 

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Die Störungen des Äthers streicheln

 

(German-Sorbian musician and composer Carolina Eyck was introduced to the theremin by her parents at the age of 7. She took her first theremin lessons with Lydia Kavina.

 

After her debut in the Berlin Philharmonie in 2002 she has been invited to concerts and festivals around the world. It was not long before she was known as one of the best theremin soloists worldwide.

 

At the age of 16, Carolina developed a new precise playing technique, called the 8 finger position technique. She published the first extensive theremin method book entitled "The Art of Playing the Theremin" in 2006.

 

With this technique the player is able to tune the theremin to their hand and rely on their finger positions, rather than correcting notes after they are audible. This method is now being used by thereminists around the world and has revolutionized how the instrument is played.

 

In 2016, Carolina began touring her solo Theremin & Voice program. She breaks new ground by using a surround sound system, allowing her theremin to break free and fill the space. Loops and choirs developed on stage fly through the room in sync with the movements of her dance-like performance. Balancing between minimal and progressive electronic music, Carolina's melodic and partly fixed composition style leaves plenty of space for her virtuoso improvisations.

 

Her transcription of Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" got more than 15 million views online. Carolina has released several solo albums, including "Elegies for Theremin & Voice" (2019) and "Thetis 2086" (2022).

 

Over the years, Carolina has collaborated with various musicians, conductors, ensembles and symphony orchestras, such as Fazil Say, Heinz Holliger, Michael Sanderling, Gürer Aykal and Brad Lubman, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Bern Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.

 

Carolina has performed in concert halls around the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., MONA (Museum of New and Old Art) Tasmania, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bozar Brussels, Rudolfinum in Prague, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) Buenos Aires, Teatro National de Guatemala and Centro Gabriela Mistral Santiago, Chile.

 

In 2006, Carolina won the International Competition for Composers arranged by Radio/TV Berlin-Brandenburg for her orchestral composition "Sciciani".

 

In 2015, she received the German Echo Klassik in the category "Concert Recording of the Year (20th/21st century music)" for playing the Theremin Concerto "Eight Seasons" by Kalevi Aho, conducted by John Storgårds and played with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, published in 2014 by BIS records).

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Amintiri care ies din frig

 

(Katharos XIII is a Romanian Black/Experimental/Ambient band; they started as experimental Black Metal band and turned into a Dark Jazz/Doom-Black Metal band, now they are formed by Manuela Marchis (vocals), F. (guitars, keyboards, vocals), Sabat (drums), Alex Iovan (tenor saxophone) and Hanos-Puskai Péter (bass)).

 

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Ερευνώντας τα βάθη του μυαλού

 

(Solar Music Library is a Space/Kraut/Psychedelic/Funk Rock band from Thessaloniki, Greece. Founded in spring 2013 by Wonder Bra (Drums), Soto Moto (Bass), Kappa (Guitars/Loops/Melodica)

and prObi (Guitars/Loops)).

 

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Nell'oscurità arriva il rimpianto

 

(Last Call at Nightowls is an International musical collaborative group comprising of maestro Adriano Vincenti of Rome, Italy (Detour Doom Project, Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Senketsu No Night Club) and rounded out by Melbourne, Australia multi instrumentalist Terry Vainoras (Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill, Neon Dread), Giovanni Leonardi (Senketsu No Night Club) and Mexican saxophonist Maria Ruvalcaba Uribe.

 

Together they have carved out a musical language through file sharing and improvisation that encompasses dark ambient, doom jazz and noir soundscapes).

 

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Rituali dall'interno della terra

 

(Hyperlacrimae is an Italian Dark/Industrial project formed in 2016 by Nocturnerror (aka Carmine Laurenza) & 11xxx27 (aka Erminio Granata)).

 

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Using the eternal transmuting power

 

(Magic Wands is a Shoegaze/Dream Pop duo formed in Nashville, TN, by guitarists and vocalists Chris and Dexy Valentine. Based in Los Angeles, the band is known for their shimmering and dreamy sound, which incorporates elements of gothic post punk, and dark dream pop. Their music is characterized by its heavily-textured guitars, droning synths, and ethereal vocals, which are designed to create an otherworldly atmosphere).

 

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猫の月の上を飛ぶ

 

(Tokyo Shoegazer (東京酒吐座) is a Japanese shoegaze band originating from Tokyo.The band was originally formed as one-off band for the purpose of performing at Sasabuchi Hiroshi's birthday live party at Shibuya O-WEST on October 12, 2010. The original line-up was Sasabuchi on drums, Watanabe Kiyomi (Kara, Acid Android) on guitar, Yuki (Presence of Soul) on vocals and guitar, Yoshi (Presence of Soul) on guitar and the K (101A) on bass. Their songs are mostly draws element from shoegaze, post-rock, noise rock and dream pop).

 

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An unpleasant Uber experience

 

(Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Bernholz, a British composer, producer and musician from Brighton, England. Walling conceived the project when she watched Fever Ray perform at the 2009 Loop Festival. She noted how "her show reminded me how powerful and liberating costume is, and I became interested in the power of disguise").

 

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Eksynyt maallisten kauhujen metsään

 

(Oranssi Pazuzu is a Finnish Black/Experimental band, formed in 2007 by Jun-His (vocals, guitar), Korjak (drums), Ontto (bass guitar), Moit (guitar) and Evill (synthesizers, organ, effects). Oranssi (Orange) in the band's name refers to cosmic energy and the color of the first light rays in the Big Bang, while Pazuzu is a mythic demon of the wind, also appearing in the film The Exorcist).

 

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Для тех, кто не вернется...

 

(IC3PEAK are Nick Kostylev and Nastya Kreslina, both audiovisual artists based in Moscow (Russia). They create not music only but all the visual stuff also (photography, vj-ing, music videos, cover art & merch). Their music is a natural synthesis of analog and digital sound, deep bass, icy and sharp vocal and wailing of DIY synth in the background, while the visual part is full of noise and sugary glitch mixed with realistic and smooth minimalism).

 

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Breathing in the warm outback winds

 

(HTRK (to be pronounced as 'HateRock"), began performing in 2003 as a duo consisting of Sean Stewart and Nigel Yang, both ex-members of Portraits of Hugo Perez. Later adding vocalist Jonnine Standish, the group took on a more haunting sound; citing such major influences as the electronic music label Mego, The Birthday Party, Krautrock, David Lynch and Suicide, HTRK combined highly textured guitar noise with groove-laden basslines and profound drum machine patterns).

 

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Koordinierte Schwingungen externer Quantenorbitale

 

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

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កិត្តិយសដល់ព្រលឹងដ៏សប្បុរស

 

(Dengue Fever is a northamerican band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian rock and pop music of the 1960's and 70's with psychedelic rock and other world music styles; the band was formed in the late 1990's, when keyboardist Ethan Holtzman discovered Cambodian psychedelic rock music while traveling in that country. Coincidentally, his guitarist brother Zac Holtzman had discovered the same music while working at a record store.

 

The brothers formed Dengue Fever in 2001 to perform songs recorded by Cambodian artists like Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, and others, most of whom died or disappeared during the Khmer Rouge regime. The band first recruited bassist Senon Williams, saxophonist/flutist David Rallicke, and drummer Paul Smith.  The band then decided to add a vocalist who could sing the Khmer lyrics of the Cambodian songs they hoped to play, and auditioned singers in the Little Phnom Penh area of Long Beach. The band selected Chhom Nimol, who had previously been a well-known singer in Cambodia before emigrating to the United States).

 

 

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In memory of wind softness

 

(Hailing from Birmingham, UK, Broadcast, formed of Trish Keenan (vocals), Roj Stevens (keyboards), James Cargill (bass), Tim Felton (guitar) and Steve Perkins (drums); Broadcast’s intimate experimental pop is fuelled with references to the work of the seminal BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Ennio Morricone or John Barry. Often associated with Stereolab in the early days, the sound of the band has developed considerably. Unfortunately, lead singer Trish Keenan died of pneumonia on 14 January 2011 at the age of 42).

 

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Opowieści o intensywnej intrydze

 

(Kroniki Filmowe Polish Library Music 1963-78 is a Polish Stage & Screen music compilation made by Polish label GAD Records).

 

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Viento frío del sur

 

(Die Noia Futuriszka is an Argentinian project of Ferrán Pont Vergés (formerly of "Rayos Catriel," "FMH," "Tecnofilia," and "Horacio Nuevatemporada"). Ferrán's musical career is extensive. His first two bands were "Martín Maguceno" and "Tamboor," both in the city of Córdoba, where he was born. Later, in Buenos Aires, he actively participated in the sonic movement, alongside Gabriel Lucena, with the trio "Rayos Catriel," a post-punk, shoegazer, and sonic act that left its mark on the scene of that decade.

 

In the early 2000s, he founded the improvisational band "FMH" alongside Lucena, Gabriel Funes, Sebastián Descarzo, Henrik Svensson, and Guillermo Barceló. Around 2010, he joined the shoegaze band "Horacio" as a guitarist. 

 

DNF began in 2005 as a solo project of ambient and noise music. He released the CD "Politikaan Foresztaatsz" under the Fuga Discos label, and a second independent digital album called "Davola." After 2020, he returned to post-punk, darkwave, and krautrock, with touches of shoegaze. That year, he released the album "Horizonte de un salón," which received widespread acclaim in the US and Europe. In 2023, he released the album "When" and presented it live in Córdoba, as part of an exhibition of his paintings that strongly correlate with the songs. 

DNF currently consists of Ferrán Pont Vergés and Diego Centurión on guitar and vocals, Un Snark on synthesizers and bass, and Rudolph Heinz on bass).

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The renewal of life underground

 

(Detritus is an English Drone/Experimental/Modern Classical/Electronic project leaded by David Dando-Moore).

 

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Halálos harc a hitért

 

(Kraschau is an Hungarian Martial/Industrial/Neoclassical one man project leaded by Adàm Bercès).

 

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Äë Künstrük Für Äë Ïlïs Für Üvï

 

(Öxxö Xööx is a French Avant Garde/Doom band formed by Gautier Serre, Laure Le Prunenec, Laurent Lunoir and Thomas Jacquelin; the band features Öxxö Xööx (Igorrr/ WHOURKR) on full songwriting duties and the operatic treasure (Rïcïnn/Corpo-Mente/Igorrr) on guest vocals, also utilizes synth guitar processing by cybermetal mastermind MASTER BOOT RECORD).

 

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Swimming into a glass sea

 

(Seefeel are a British post-rock band formed in the early 1990s by Mark Clifford (guitar, sequencing), Daren Seymour (bass), Justin Fletcher (drums), and Sarah Peacock (vocals and guitar). Bridging the guitar-based dream pop and shoegaze scenes with the production techniques of ambient techno and electronica).

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Looking into the absolute darkness

 

(The KVB is a British audio-visual duo formed by Nicholas Wood and Kat Day, from London, UK.

 

Formed in 2010 by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Wood as a solo project, The KVB got started with a number of limited cassette and vinyl releases, then vocalist/keyboardist/visual artist Kat Day joined Wood in 2011. Their sound has been described as a combination of electronic, psychedelic, post-punk and shoegaze).

 

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Spreading madness from the cliffs

 

(Beak (stylized as BEAK>) is an English Experimental/Neopsychedelic Rock music band from Bristol, consisting of Geoff Barrow (Portishead), together with Billy Fuller (Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs)).

 

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Crossing the thresholds of madness

 

(Ensemble Economique is an Experimental/Drone/Abstract project from Manila, UT, leaded by musician and mastering/mixing engineer Brian Pyle).

 

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Серфинг на волнах прошлого

 

(Messer Chups is a Russian surf band formed in Hamburg in 1998 and originally consisted of Oleg Gitarkin (bass) and Annette Schneider (synths). They had several member changes and in 2003, they invited Lydia Kavina - the most famous thereminvox-player and grand-niece of its inventor - to release Crazy Price and Vamp Babes. 

As of 2016, Messer Chups is based in St. Petersburg, Russia and works as a trio consisted of Oleg "Gitaracula" Fomchenkov (formerly known as Oleg Gitarkin) on guitar, Svetlana "Zombierella" Nagaeva (formerly known as Zombi Girl) on bass and Dr. Boris (Boris Israel Fernandez) on drums)).

 

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Rain over the city of despair

 

(Black Rain is a NY experimental project produced by founder and figurehead Stuart Argabright; his work is a mix of hard-edged sonic fiction rooted in cyberpunk's quintessential neo-noir cityscape/dataspace, though projecting into a farther future of biotechnological advancement and alienation).

 

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Нарушения в плотном замкнутом пространстве

 

(Côte Déserte is a Russian Dark Jazz/Avant Garde project from Saint Petersburg, formed by Maxim V. Komov and Philip Croaton).

 

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Balade za konec sveta

 

(Laibach is an Slovenian Post-Industrial band formed 1980 in Trbovlje, at the time Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Laibach is the German name for Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana; initially one of the founders of Martial Industrial music, they changed their musical direction to a more Rock-, Pop- and Techno-/Dance-inspired crossover style in later years).

 

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Poems for nights with mild north winds

 

(Maston is a one man project leaded by multi-instrumentalist Frank Maston, who grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, soaking in both the summery atmosphere and the musical and cultural history of his surroundings. Early on, Maston developed a love for the sunny chamber pop of Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson, as well as more California-inspired moments of rock magic from Harry Nilsson and Phil Spector.

 

He eventually sculpted these influences into what would become his own music, a completely self-sufficient menagerie of dark pop sounds informed by '60s and '70s studio magicians and loner geniuses).

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Into the house of night cries

 

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

 

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Å hente energi fra forfedrene

 

(Action & Tension & Space is a spaced out instrumental lo-fi lounge outfit from Oslo, Norway, consisting of members from bands like The Low Frequency in Stereo, Lumen Drones, Electric Eye, Soft Ride, Ape Club, Undergrünnen and the European backing band for Ryley Walker; the band is formed by Julius Lind, Ørjan Haaland, Øystein Braut and Per Steinar Lie).

 

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The masks narrative lies in the music itself

 

(Glass Beams is the music project of Indian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer Rajan Silva. He founded the group in Melbourne, Australia in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The band blends Eastern musical elements with contemporary Western music. On stage and in music videos, the band appears in bejewelled doily-like masks, which is why its members remain anonymous).

 

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ღრმა გონების გასაჭირი

 

(Sara Stuttgart  is a Post Punk/Coldwave one man project located in Tbilisi, Georgia).

 

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Les vicissitudes de la vie adulte

 

(Forever Pavot is a musical project formed in 2012 by five musicians around Émile Sornin (vocals, keyboards) with Antoine Rault (guitar), Cédruic Laban (drums), Arnaud Sèche (keyboards, transverse flute) and Maxime Daoud (bass)).

 

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Be welcome to the house of real horror

 

(29 Niebolt Street is a Darkwave/Synth one man project from Flint, MI, leaded by Jason Messler, who is inspired by horror and sci-fi soundtracks of the 80's).

 

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Přijímání bolesti osamělosti

 

(Nobody Jazz Ensemble is a Dark Jazz/Exprimental band from Czech Republic).

 

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De laatste halte voor trekvogels

 

(Mansur is a Dutch Tribal/Experimental/Ambient project formed in 2019 by Jason Köhnen (The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation) joined by Dimitry El-Demerdashi (ex-Phurpa) and introducing Martina Hórvath (Thy Catafalque) on vocals); the sound of Mansur navigates between the waters of musical fantasy and reality - it morphs and blends traditional instrumentation with modern day electronica).

 

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Ψάχνοντας για μια σκοτεινή χαμένη ήπειρο

 

(Restive Plaggona is a Greek Industrial/Dark Ambient project formed by Dimitris Doukas).

 

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For those who have returned to the subatomic cluster

 

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

 

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