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Haila Maria Mompie Gonzalez was born on the 28th of January 1974 in the easterly part of Cuba, Las Tunas. From an early age on, she was wrapped in the beauty of dance, music and singing. After finishing her dancing degree in 1991, she performed with different bands as well as in numerous musicals and cabarets. For the first time ever, Haila toured in Mexico together with the "Guajira Habanera Show" in 1992. Two years later, she joined the well known band "Bamboleo" and landed several hits in Cuba. Bamboleo filled the locals and concert halls. Haila was celebrated as...

Active in music and the art world, Mikhail Karikis was first spotted by music innovators Björk and Graham Massey and selected for commercial release on Björk's 'Army of Me' album. He has released alongside Scanner, David Toop and others. His music spans from electronica, to alternative pop, Balkan folk and avant-garde. Mikhail's solo album Orphica is to be released in Spring 2007 on Quatermass. Check out Mikhail's myspace profile http://www.myspace.com/mikhailmusic .

Чека́лин Михаи́л Генна́диевич (род. 27 мая 1959, Москва) — советский и российский композитор, исполнитель (фортепиано, клавишные электромузыкальные инструменты, вокал), художник, продюсер, артист аудио-визуального жанра, стоявший у истоков разных направлений современной музыки в эпоху андерграунда 1970—1980-х годов, автор сочинений электронной, экспериментальной, прогрессив-рок, симфонической и камерной музыки, а также музыки для театра, кино и балета. М. Чекалин признан основоположником направления Philharmonic New Age, а в контексте русской сцены в конце 1970-х является основателем отечественного эмбиента. В 1980-е он продекларировал такие направления и концепции, как «Пост-поп», «Симфония-Фонограмма». В 1990-е М. Чекалин вводит термин «Пост-симфония», которому верен до сих пор, интерпретируя в этом направлении...

UPDATE: (09/27/2010): Debut EP from Hailey's new band, WOJCIK, is available now as a FREE download at: http://wojcik.bandcamp.com . . NEW LAST.FM PAGE: http://www.last.fm/music/wojcik . . . On her full length album, DIORAMA, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Hailey Wojcik (VOY-chek) explores the many meanings of that word. Part theatre, part museum exhibit, each song is a musically unique and detailed glimpse at a life. The album was produced by Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owen Youngs) and makes use of a wide range of instrumentation, from Indian banjo to mellotron to recorded samples of animal noises, as well as strumstick, horns, ukulele...

The Hail Seizures translate dark punk and underground hardcore into acoustic instruments. There is a slipshod and improvised characteristic to their lineup: bottom of the line acoustic guitars, a drumset made from a suitcase, a childs violin and an old cello that clashes wildly with the ornately composed songs, that jump back and froth between catchy sing along choruses to brutal and lopsided rythyms that you would expect more from your local metal band than any normal folk act. They seem perfectly comfortable mixing up colors of Cyndi Lauper with those of crust-gods Ballast changing time signatures a couple of...