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British band: "When someone comes to you in a dream and tells you to make an album about your homeland – the Orkney islands- would you disregard it? Especially when that someone is Betty Corrigall, the Orcadian girl who in the 1770′s killed herself having been cast out by her village after becoming pregnant by a visiting sailor?” Well, would you? In January 2011, it’s the spark that led Orcadian singer-songwriter Erland Cooper to group together his Erland & The Carnival band mate Simon Tong and singer/orchestral arranger Hannah Peel (of last year’s solo ‘The Broken Wave’ album) to form...

The Electromagnetic Azoth is one of the six Secret Chiefs 3 subbands, focused on genre-hopping tunes. .

"We're an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band," says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg, "We've got the market cornered. There is no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department." The Trachtenburg Family are a domestic trio (father: Jason, mother: Tina Piña & 12-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections theyve found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. Whats more, from their retro fashion sense to their disavowal of modern conveniences, the Trachtenburgs are...

Magnetic Island's debut LP "Magnetic Island": Call it scene one, take two. When Magnetic Island emerged from the remnants of Renminbi with a flurry of new recordings, they sounded like a band that was still sorting through the rubble of their old ideas and processes. On various singles and the Out at Sea EP, the re-christened band experimented with new textures and arrangements but hewed closely to the Renminbi sound: an economical, recorded-live sound, with clear guitar front and center. These early recordings were gradual, cautious and exploratory. Their trajectory was uncharted. With "Magnetic Island," it's anything but. For all...

(1) Magnetica (producers/live act) is the fusion of two producers from the Venezuelan electronic music scene, Daniela Peña aka Veda and Daniel González aka Biosampler (aka DarkOhm), together, they have more than 10 years of experience on the local and international scene. This new Project intends to mix different musical tendencies from their past musical background as well as from the various new tendencies worldwide (ambient, electro, IDM, new wave, trip hop) in order to provide you with a very eclectic and unique sound. Magnetica is not only a producer duo, but a live performing duo executing electronic music concerts...