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Isidore Isou (January 31, 1925 – July 28, 2007), was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism. Born into a Jewish family in Botoşani, Isou started his career as an avant-garde art journalist during World War II, shortly after the August 23 coup saw Romania joining the Allies (see Romania during World War II). With the future social psychologist Serge Moscovici, he founded the magazine Da, which was soon after closed down by the authorities. He moved to Paris, having...

Isidore was born when Jeffrey Cain (from Remy Zero) approached Steve Kilbey backstage after a concert when the Church were touring the US, and handed him a demo of an instrumental song he had written. This song was to become Transmigration. At home in Sydney, Kilbey wrote the lyrics and added vocals in his brother Johns Karmic Hit studio. Thrilled with the result, Cain sent Kilbey more music, which resulted in the s/t album Isidore which was released on Karmic Hit records in 2004. After years of hiatus, on february 21st of 2012 finally the 2nd album Life Somewhere Else...

Psychedelic group from Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). It was formed in the 90s by Marc Ros (singer, guitar and bass guitar), Jesus Senra (singer, guitar, bass guitar, sitar) and Axel Pi (drums, bongos and tablas). .

Sido Martens (1949) is a Frisian folk musician. He makes Dutch music inspired by several folk songs, put in a modern jacket. He sings in Frisian, Dutch and English. Before he went solo until 1982, he played in the bands Farmers Union and Fungus where he released several LP's with in the seventies. Since 1996 Sido is busy with a second career. From 1985 until now, Sido released 13 solo albums. According to his website, Sido Martens is Songsmith in the tradition of the craft. .

Sido is the stage name of the Berlin rapper Paul Würdig (born November 30th, 1980), one of the most successful artists of the German record label Aggro Berlin. Sido distinguishes himself through uncomfortable, provocative, aggressive lyrics. He often wears a silver mask. The name is an abbreviation that is spelled as "super-intelligentes Drogenopfer" = "super intelligent drug victim". However this is the new interpretation while originally the name did spell as "Scheisse in Dein Ohr" = "shit (goes) into your ears". In 2004, Sido's debut album, "Maske" ("Mask"), sold more than 100,000 copies in less than a month. In September...