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bandcamp: http://swimminginspeakers.bandcamp.com facebook: http://www.facebook.com/swimminginspeakers twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SiStheband spotify: http://spoti.fi/YR9f7u swimming in speakers is a duo that has been crafting music that deftly fuses thoughtful indie ambiance, synth pop and toe-tapping freak folktronica since 2009. Originally joining forces to compose experimental music for a theater project at St. Lawrence University, the two musicians realized their introduction was more than a happy accident and quickly created a well-received EP. With Christopher Clarke providing the music beneath the honey-dipped vocals of Meadow Elizabeth (once describe as "instant heroin"), the band achieved buzz when two songs from their eponymous EP appeared on ABC's “Grey’s Anatomy”...

Rik Emmett has his fair share of gold and platinum hanging on the wall after surviving three decades in the music business, after first surfacing as the lead guitarist, singer/songwriter of the rock trio Triumph. Awards like Best Guitarist at the 1981 Canadian Juno Awards, induction into the Canadian Rock Hall of Fame in ‘93, and Best Smooth Jazz Guitarist in 2005 highlight an ever- evolving career. There’s a true singer/songwriter at the heart of it all – a multi-dimensional artist, with nothing to prove except the dignity and maturity of his continuing commitment to great music. “I played everything...

Emmett Williams ( Greenville, South Carolina, April 4, 1925 – February 14, 2007, Berlin, Germany), was an American poet. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1949 to 1966. Williams studied poetry with John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, studied anthropology at the University of Paris, and worked as an assistant to the ethnologist Paul Radin in Switzerland. As an artist and poet, Emmett Williams collaborated with Daniel Spoerri in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry from 1957 to 1959. In the 1960s, Williams was the European coordinator of Fluxus,...

Hazards Of Swimming Naked are an instrumental group originating from Far North Queensland (Innisfail/Johnstone Shire). Their music is a reflection of their surrounding environment and isolated townships and of the imposition of society on this environment and the way people interact with it. This sound has drifted over the years from dense terrorscapes to late night grooves to dreamy, serendipitous currents and paranoid messes. While short punchy pop hooks will always have a place in the hearts and minds of the masses, we believe there is a place for music which is less immediate. Music which asks something of the...