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RICHARD KNOX
{website} Richard Knox (b. 1980) is a musician and artist living and working in Glossop, situated in the Dark Peak district in the North-West of the UK. Currently writing and touring as A-Sun Amissa, he is also a founding member of The Rustle of the Stars and Glissando and a member of Shield Patterns. He formed and is still currently running the independent record label Gizeh Records and alongside his design work and mixed media art projects he co-founded the screen-printing and art studio SmilingPaperGhosts. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Slow Breaths Of A Frail Figure |
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AIDAN BAKER
{website} Aidan Baker is a Canadian musician and writer currently based in Berlin, Germany. Active with a variety of group projects, most notably the drone/doom duo Nadja, as a solo artist, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music that ranges from experimental/ambient to post-rock to contemporary classical. Baker has released countless albums on many different underground labels — Alien8 Recordings, Ici d’ailleurs, Karlrecords, Gizeh Records, and Important Records, to name a few — and has toured extensively with performances in Europe, Japan, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and North and South America. CONTRIBUTIONS: • A Chime Drone With Hints Of Rhythm (Waking Tired) |
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JEAN D.L.
{website} Jean D.L. (guitar & tape machine) develops a universe at once intimistic and noisy, made of hazy soundscape. Jean D.L. has worked in solo but has also collaborated with the likes of Lee Ranaldo, Mauro A. Pawlowski, Teun Verbruggen, Jozef Van Wissem, Anla Courtis, Jozef Dumoulin, Julia Kent, Karen Willems… CONTRIBUTIONS: • Bruise On Silence |
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ERIC QUACH
{website} Eric Quach is a Montreal-based artist/musician known for his guitar-based solo project Thisquietarmy & defunct post-shoegazer band Destroyalldreamers. After quitting his corporate day job & engineering career almost 10 years ago, he unleashed close to 50 releases on labels such as Consouling Sounds, Aurora Borealis, Denovali Records, Midira Records, Shelter Press & three:four Records, and performed more than 500 solo gigs in 40 countries, mostly through North American & European tour/festival circuits, but also off-the-beaten path such as in South America, Siberia, Southeast Asia, & Mongolia. He also collaborates (live & in the studio) with the likes of Aidan Baker (Nadja), Scott Cortez (lovesliescrushing), Aidan Girt (Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Away (Voivod), Noveller, Syndrome (Amenra) & Year of No Light. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Twenty Thirty (Nine Four Two) |
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RUTGER ZUYDERVELT {website} Rutger Zuydervelt is a Rotterdam based musician, mostly releasing music as Machinefabriek - on labels such as 12k, Miasmah, Western Vinyl and Edition Wandelweiser. He regularly collaborates with other musicians (Dirk Serries, Dead Neanderthals, Michel Banabila and Gareth Davis, to name a few) and composes scores for films and contemporary dance. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Two Overlapping Improvisations |
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ZENJUNGLE {website} Zenjungle is the sound project of musician Phil Gardelis from Athens, Greece exploring the fields of drone, ambient, jazz and noise music. He has released albums in several labels such as Midira Records, Flaming Pines, Futuresequence and others. He has collaborated with various musicians (Valiska, Siavash Amini, Karen Willems, Dead Melodies, John Daly and others) CONTRIBUTIONS: • Slow Breaths of a Frail Figure |
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DIRK SERRIES {website} The Belgian-based artist Dirk Serries has experimented with music on the border between avant-garde, industrial, experimental and ambient for more than 30 years. He released his earliest work (1984) behind the pseudonym vidnaObmana up to 2007 when he closed the book on this project (realizing an extensive discography). Other projects like Fear Falls Burning and his Microphonics series made him collaborate with several key-players like Steven Wilson, Justin K. Broadrick, Cult Of Luna, Steve Roach and toured extensively on the sides of Jesu, MONO, Low, My Bloody Valentine and Cult Of Luna. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Primary |