b. 1973, Switzerland. Meier analyzed guitar from age 12, with portion of his musical education occurring in the Fribourg Conservatoire. From his first times, he drew affects from diverse musical resources including jazz, traditional, flamenco, rock and roll, Latin and, later on, the center East, specifically Turkey, which is definitely …

Anyone not really acquainted with Angel Pavement shouldn’t experience too bad. In the end, the music group was hardly children name in its heyday, and its own peak of publicity consisted of a set of failed singles at the tail-end from the 1960s in Britain. But they had been a …

Roy East, quite an obscure Uk woodwind player, might have managed to get into Leonard Feather’s special Encyclopedia of Jazz simply so the enterprising Feather could plug one of is own own tasks, an early-’60s album entitled 1 World Jazz merging jazz players from a number of nations. Feather defined …

Benjamin Zander is one particular rare musicians who all gained superstar only in the afterwards levels of their professions. A virtual unidentified, Zander begun to receive significant critical interest in the middle-’90s, generally for his recordings using the then-obscure Boston Philharmonic Orchestra; this resulted in great curiosity from concert promoters …

The Viscounts were one particular odd pop/rock & roll cross groups which were common to both America and Britain by the end from the 1950s and the beginning of the ’60s, but which always appeared to carry out better in Britain. The trio coalesced out of the eight-piece outfit known …

Raphael Wallfisch is among the leading British cellists of his era. His repertory is certainly vast, consuming 19th hundred years staples by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Dvorák, aswell as 20th hundred years criteria by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Respighi, and Barber. However he in addition has focused much interest on functions by United …

White colored Magic guitarist Sleepy Doug Shaw shaped experimental/indie/Afro-pop outfit Highlife in the past due 2000s. The London-born, NY City-based multi-instrumentalist documented an EP by using likeminded associates of Gang Gang Dance and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti aswell as Light Magic’s Mira Billotte, who offered history vocals. Highlife backed Animal …

Along with his own unique undertake racism, war, and global political issues, rapper and activist (and person in several supergroups) Lowkey has surfaced among the British hip-hop scene’s most outspoken artists. Delivered Kareem Dennis in London in 1986 for an Iraqi mom and English dad, he initial began rapping at …

Also known as a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation, NY City-based vocalist José James has combined jazz, soul, drum’n’bass, and spoken phrase into his unique make of vocal jazz. While he state governments his main affects as John Coltrane, Marvin Gaye, and Billie Vacation, his audio on early 12″ …

A veteran from the U.K. grime picture, Terror Danjah is normally a well-respected manufacturer known for his use N.A.S.T.Con. Crew (including significant MCs Jammer, D Dual E, and Kano) and Aftershock, furthermore to solo materials on Globe Mu and Hyperdub. His brash, kinetic productions, conveniently recognizable because of the regular …