Music to tear the soul apart

 

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

 

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The time when real life begins

 

(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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Immersed in a sea of ​​sadness

 

(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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Spending the night in abandoned cemeteries

 

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

 

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La main qui berce le berceau

 

(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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Willkommen zur lysergischen party

 

(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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Uqausit nuqqangatitaujut sikumut

 

(Tanya Tagaq Gillis is an Inuit throat singer from Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She first began to practice throat singing after attending school, and later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.

 

Although she has become a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, she is best known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

 

Her innovative, solo style of throat singing seeks to push the boundaries of emotion and to express the primitive instincts she believes still reside deep within our flesh. She describes her evolution over the past six years as a process of going deeper and deeper into her performance to the point where she virtually “leaves her body” and lets the expression take over).

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Meditating in subconscious temples

 

(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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Letargico per i campi oppiacei

 

(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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Dansant sur des champs de sang

 

(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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Að anda út á kalda jörðina

 

(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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Late autumn sunsets

 

(93MillionMilesFromTheSun is a Shoegaze band from Doncaster, England, formed by Nick Mainline (Guitar, Noise, Vocals), Jase Burns (Drums, Loops, Samples, Noise), Kenno (Bass, Noise)).

 

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Verslonden in een hoek van het labyrint

 

(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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Ponosnim otrokom Zaratustre

 

(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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Inspiration is born from sunset light

 

(Stereolab is an Anglo-French avant-pop band formed in London in 1990. Led by the songwriting team of Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, the group's music combines influences from krautrock, lounge and 1960s pop music, often incorporating a repetitive motorik beat with heavy use of vintage electronic keyboards and female vocals sung in English and French.

 

Their lyrics have political and philosophical themes influenced by the Surrealist and Situationist movements. On stage, they play in a more feedback-driven and guitar-oriented style. The band also draw from funk, jazz and Brazilian music, and were one of the first artists to be dubbed "post-rock". They are regarded among the most innovative and influential groups of the 1990s.

 

Other longtime members included 1992 addition Mary Hansen (backing vocals, keyboards and guitar), who sadly died in 2002 in a street accident, and 1993 addition Andy Ramsay (drums). The High Llamas' leader Sean O'Hagan (guitar and keyboards) was a member from 1993 to 1994 and continued appearing on later records for occasional guest appearances).

 

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Bilinmeyene doğru bir yürüyüş

 

(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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Desenterrando evidencias silenciosas

 

(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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