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Ornatos Violeta were an influential Portuguese alternative rock group whose music was informed as much by jazz and ska as the dominant guitar rock format of the time. The band was formed in the city of Porto, in 1991. With Manel Cruz (vocals), Nuno Prata (bass), Peixe (guitar), Kinörm (drums) and Elísio Donas (keyboard) and only two albums, they quickly became a reference in Portuguese music at the end of the 90's, despite the most successful part of their career lasting for only three years, ending when its members split up. History In 1997 they composed Cão (Dog!) their first...

Classically trained pianist, John Boy Walton took the Nekromantik score as a holiday off from his Berlin based rock band The Waltons. John Boy Walton playing "Scelette delicieux" with Monika M. on vocals available on Youtube.com (Nekromantik 2) .

First, there are three bands named The Waltons: an Award winning acoustic folk- rock trio from Canada, a cowpunk band from Berlin, and a rockbilly band from Perth. The Canadian band (with albums featured here such as Lik My Trakter and Empire Hotel) is a Pop Rock trio with a bit of country flavor. They toured with the Barenaked Ladies in the early nineties. The group formed in Regina, Saskatchewan, when college friends Jason Plumb (lead vocals and acoustic guitar), Keith Nakonechny (bass and vocals), and Dave Cooney (drums) began performing Plumb's songs in clubs around town. After gigging around...