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Minneapolis indie rockers the Get Back again sowed the seed products of their music group back middle college. Guitarist/vocalist Craig Casey, bassist Troy Pinard, and drummer Grady Kenevan have been messing around musically from around age group 12, but didn’t solidify the Drive Back’s lineup until early 2003, if they …

A collaboration between two of experimental music’s most prolific and mercurial practitioners, Kaada/Patton sees Norwegian composer and producer John Erik Kaada and Faith No Even more/Mr. Bungle/Fantômas frontman Mike Patton distilling their like of both film and music into something really unique. Mainly orchestral, with Kaada offering the sonic vistas …

DJ Jan Erik Kaiser come up with a mix recording of the 1st several Areal produces for Bis Neun, released in early 2003. The 1st CD display for the Cologne-based label, it presented highlights from famous brands Metope, Basteroid, Konfekt, and Undo/Redo. Another blend, Bis Neunzehn, adopted in Apr of …

Pianist Liam Vocalist was raised in Portland, OR, visited university in Ohio, after that moved to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. He began composing music for the piano and, with several close friends, founded the unbiased label Tell-All Information, which released his debut record, The Empty Center from the Chameleon, in …

The brainchild of cosmic lo-fi Los Angeles-based indie folk artist/high-school science teacher Chad Matheny, Emperor X began its aural assault in the past due ’90s. Matheny’s quirky mixture of surreal, offbeat lyrics and haphazard plans combined with an innate pop sensibility 1st made an appearance in solid type in 1998 …

Made up of virtuosic sisters Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza Holbrook, Colorado-based indie folk quartet SHEL (an acronym of their initial brands) cast a distinctive spell, weaving together folk, rock and roll, Celtic, pop, and almost anything else off their drain of affects. Their creative abilities had been nurtured from …

Taylor McFerrin’s initial recorded appearance was being a history vocalist on “Jubilee,” a tune included on his dad Bobby’s 1982 debut album for Elektra. A few decades later, younger McFerrin was referred to as a beatboxer and set up a career being a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, manufacturer, and vocalist. In 2006, …

Drummer and composer Mike Reed was created in Biclefeld, Germany, in 1974 but spent the majority of his years as a child developing up in Evanston, IL, just north of Chicago. Still located in Chicago, Reed is a big component of this city’s lively jazz scene, using the Treehouse Task, …

Summoning an imaginative world of percussive rhythms, Mimmo Cafiero provides affected the jazz of Sicily for greater than a quarter of a hundred years. A member from the Enzo Randisi Music group, Brass Group Big Music group, as well as the Reinhardt Jazz Research Orchestra through the 1980s, he’s continuing …

Guitarist Todd Clouser is a forward-thinking and adventurous musician using a bent toward contemporary creative jazz and genre-bending varieties of improvised music. A Minneapolis indigenous, Clouser went to Berklee University of Music in Boston, and he toured as person in the rock-band 4 Letter Guy. Around 2006, Clouser relocated to …