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Dave Willey makes his house in the American Western world, but his most noteworthy music pulls from affects elsewhere. An experienced multi-instrumentalist and composer, he flies in currents below the radar of mainstream music listeners, despite getting one of fairly few “avant” performers whose music is certainly uncompromising, difficult, and …

Swedish composer, accordionist, and keyboardist Lars Hollmer was a very much much loved artist who escaped the notice of several during his lifetime but who nevertheless handled listeners around the world from Europe to Asia to THE UNITED STATES. Provided his longstanding account in the quirky Samla Mammas Manna, he …

The Boulder, Colorado-based Hamster Theatre were founded in 1993, emerging from your music imagination of Dave Willey, an American accordionist/composer skilled in a multitude of instruments who had lived for a while in European countries and found himself drawn to the music of Lars Hollmer, Nimal, and similar Rock and …

An organization that seemed sadly destined to cult-band obscurity, without business recordings to record among the 1st musical projects from the performers whose exclusive genius would later on flower in to the hauntingly surreal Americana of 16 Hp and Thin Cessna’s Auto Golf club, the recordings from the Denver Gentlemen …

The band of Colorado experimentalists referred to as Thinking Plague venture in adventurous, challenging, and sometimes knotty musical directions similar in lots of ways towards the multi-genre explorations of Euro Rock and roll in Opposition bands, although Plague members may sometimes be inclined to reject the RIO comparison. Led by …

American singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Elaine di Falco has spent a lot of her music-making career in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Hill West, but a lot of her collaborations have included musicians surviving in Britain, Switzerland, or Italy. Di Falco got her begin using Phoenix, Az punk bands through …

Israeli mixing and learning wiz Udi Koomran had an indicator for Swiss folky avant-prog multi-instrumentalist Cédric Vuille in 2008: go see Coloradan experimental rockers Pondering Plague if they play in Geneva — to meet up TP bassist Dave Willey and singer Elaine di Falco. Koomran recognized that Vuille, Willey, and …