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Mounira Mitchala is a singer from Chad. She was awarded RFI’s "Découvertes" ("Discoveries") prize in 2007. She has recorded songs in Chadian Arabic and English, in a modern take on the sounds and rhythms of her native country. She also took part on Frédéric Galliano's 2005 album African Divas. Her first solo album, Talou Lena, was released on January 2008 on the Marabi Productions label. .

Adam Michalak is a Polish deep ambient musician. Michalak uses dusty vinyl, bells and whistles, electromagnetic buzz, echoing keyboards, drones, silence, field recordings and many other sound textures to build immense walls of amazing ambient music. .

High Brow Low Art Music is the debut release of Halal Kebab Hut – a band of seven improviseurs de junk (no they don’t sound like Stomp), and was recorded in the cold, dark and final days of 2004. The group is the gastrosonic brainchild of, East London-based composer/improviser/anarchist/teacher/cyclist, Simon Katan, who creates all the algorithmic fodder for the band. This takes the form of game pieces - rigorous, non-linear, rule-based structures that provide differing systems of organisation without prescribing content - that bind the performer’s actions together into complex networks of interrelations. In case it isn’t already clear enough,...

Aurora Halal is a producer, video artist, and creator of Brooklyn's Mutual Dreaming party series & the Sustain-Release festival. Shadowy & psychedelic, her hardware live & DJ sets have a hazy sensuality and metallic dancefloor intensity, always pushing her compositions further into deep hypnotic states. She's spent the last years touring some of the most forward-thinking underground clubs and festivals including Unsound, Atonal, Stattbad, and more. .

Suphala is a tabla artist, composer, and producer. She is a protégé of tabla players Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain and is based in New York City. .