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Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian band formed in 1981 in Rīga, Latvia. Their name means "the yellow postmen" in Latvian, and is sometimes abbreviated to DzP. They were among the pioneers of new wave as well as reggae in the former Soviet Union. The music has ranged from guitar/bass/drums-based post-punk to minimal synthpop to experimental tape manipulation. The constant core members of the band have remained Ingus Baušķenieks (bass guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Viesturs Slava (guitars, keyboards, vocals), with Zigmunds Streiķis (keyboards) and Ilgvars Rišķis (drums) completing the "classic" line-up. Their first six albums (1981-1987) were home-recorded using consumer tape...

Uldis Stabulnieks (1945- 2012) was a Latvian jazz pianist and popular music composer. Starting out in the underground Soviet jazz scene as a member of various bands, including a collaboration with trumpeter Gunārs Rozenbergs, Stabulnieks eventually went on to become one of the most prolific Latvian composers of popular music. Despite his songs becoming standard repertoire for various Latvian pop singers and writing scores for a number of Latvian movies, Stabulnieks continued to perform his own material as a respected solo artist right until his death in 2012. .

Catherine Russell (*1956) is a native New Yorker, born with an enviable musical pedigree. Her father, the late Luis Russell, was born in Panama and moved to New Orleans and then New York City, becoming a pioneering pianist/bandleader, and Louis Armstrong’s long-time musical director. Her mother, Carline Ray, is an outstanding bassist and vocalist and holder of advanced degrees from Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music, who has performed with Mary Lou Williams and Wynton Marsalis. Not surprisingly considering her roots, Catherine Russell is a one of a kind vocalist. She has toured the world, performing and recording with a...

Born in Bruges, Belgium in 1952, Moniek Darge has worked as a composer, violinist, performer and installation artist. She studied music theory and violin at the Music Conservatory of Bruges as well as painting at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Arthistory, Philosophy and Anthropology. She has published extensively on her musical experiences in Kenya, Rwanda, Japan, China, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, both in 'Logos-Blad', the monthly magazine of the Logos Foundation (of which she is editor), and on numerous radio programs. She is currently assistant professor at the Hogeschool Gent where she teaches 20th Century Art History,...

Catherines Cathedral was a Gothic Rock band in Sweden in the mid 1990's. According to their entry in the discogs database they had released three albums; Flowerdust (1993), Intoxication (1994), and Equilibrium (1995) (the last two being signed under the Noxious Records label). According to the Gothic music blog called Hidden Pleasures the band had the following lineup: Guitar: D. Petersson Guitar, Vocals: M. Valley Keyboards: S. Morgana Bass: D. Hansevi Drums: Colonel Phobia .