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The band, holding many shapes and forms, evolved originally from experimental Americana music to a certain cinematic form of rock music. The authentic journey down the lyrical pathways that the band explores is guided patiently and with utmost care by the musicians involved. At times introverted and often tense, the music is the direct result of a reflection of the band's experience. .

Sam Lowry is an artist that is perhaps best described as "dark americana". Lowry and his ever-changing ensemble of talented back up (members of Murder by Death, Early Day Miners, and Duraluxe among others) have released four albums out on Higher Step Records, including the latest release 'Songs of My Enemy". Overall Sam Lowry's work is a brutal and self-aware and honest look at a mans mind as he sinks into a post-divorce depression, deals with abandonement through the breaking of social patterns, and always displays the sort of hope for something better that has been a staple of the...

Róisín Murphy (pronounced roe-sheen) originally from Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, gained fame with Mark Brydon as the lead vocalist for UK electronic duo Moloko, formed in 1995. Murphy recorded her first official solo material in 2004 with producer Matthew Herbert, who had previously done remixes for Moloko. She released her debut album, Ruby Blue, in June 2005 in the UK on Echo Records. "Ruby Blue" produced two singles "If We're In Love" and "Sow Into You". She released her second album Overpowered on 15 October 2007. On 10 January 2008, Overpowered received a nomination for the Choice Music Prize in...

Mark Alan Lowry (born June 24, 1958 in Houston, Texas) is an American evangelical Christian comedian and singer. From 1988 to 2001, he was the baritone in the Gaither Vocal Band. Lowry attended Liberty University (called Liberty Baptist College at the time) from 1975 to 1980. He intended to get a business degree, but instead followed a self-described "spiritual calling" into the music business, and he ended up singing in many independent Baptist churches in the United States. Right after graduation, Lowry's agent, Roy Morgan, booked him in 43 cities in 41 days. He began his career as a comedian...

Moi, le voisin know their roots, but like screwing around with them. The Dutch band plays a mixture of folk and indie pop, inhabiting a space somewhere between Neutral Milk Hotel, Jacques Brel en Will Oldham. Moi, le voisin have released 3 self-released albums and 1 EP and have played shows on streets, boats, in tents, living rooms, trailers, on grass, in theatres, followed by actors dressed up as animals, and occasionally in normal clubs. www.moilevoisin.nl [myspace]www.myspace.com/moilevoisin[/myspace] .