Tag Archives: Laid-Back/Mellow

Three students at Bard University — Tahlia Harbour, Apr Hayley, and Caitlin Pearce — formed the Dry out Spells in 2002, prompted by an area news story about the accidental killing of the nine-year-old girl with a deer hunter. Sketching from traditional folk ballads, the trio began working on music …

Amsterdam-born producer and cellist Pieter Perquin began creating music as a kid, and was particularly influenced by traditional, jazz, and hip-hop. He began Unexpected Information in 2001 while he was still an adolescent, and released his instrumental debut EP, Outta Nowhere, offering saxophone improvisations by Benjamin Herman, the same 12 …