WAKO | ar

1) Czech rap artist and member of Rook's Squad. 2) Norwegian acoustic jazz quartet formed in [bandformed]Trondheim[/bandformed]. The band members are Martin Myhre Olsen on saxophone, Kjetil André Mulelid on piano, Simon Olderskog Albertsen on drums and Bárður Reinert Poulsen from the Faroe Islands on bass. The members met at the Institute of Performing Arts at NTNU in Trondheim in 2013. The quartet plays its own music consisting of beautiful melodies, complex rhythms, and pure improvisations. The band strives to improvise as freely as possible in the given frames of the compositions, and to collectively find something truly spontaneous and...

Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. She has 5 solo albums from Baskaru, 12k, Anticipate and And/OAR, and 1 split album as sawako + daisuke miyatani from Schole. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig. Sawako did live...