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RICHARD KNOX
{website} Founder of The Eternal Return Arkestra. 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 Death Rattle Press. 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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BENOIT PIOULARD
[website] Since a young age, Thomas Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He began playing piano before his feet could reach the pedals, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment by combining remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard. CONTRIBUTIONS: • SZ |
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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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OWEN JOHN KINGSLEY JONES
[website] Owen Jones is a London-based musician and recording Engineer. He is a founding member of black noise contingent Wren, releasing music through Holy Roar Records, Astral Noize Records & Gizeh Records and touring with the likes of Death Engine, Fvnerals, Kowloon Walled City & Fórn. He also runs a recording company based in London, England under the moniker The Well - Recordings. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Twenty Thirty (Nine Four Two) |
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JULIA KENT
[website] Canadian-born, New York City-based cellist and composer Julia Kent creates music using layered and processed cello, electronics, and found sounds. She has released five solo records, the most recent being Temporal on UK label Leaf, and has toured throughout North America and Europe. In addition to her albums, she also composes music for film, theatre, dance, and television. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Espalier |
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AARON MARTIN
[website] Aaron Martin is a Kansas-based cellist and composer. His solo work has appeared on Eilean Rec., IIKKI, and Preserved Sound, among other labels. He also regularly collaborates with other artists, most notably, his ongoing project with Dag Rosenqvist called From the Mouth of the Sun. In addition to his main music work, Aaron has recently begun scoring films, including a feature-length score for A24's "Menashe" with Rosenqvist. CONTRIBUTIONS: • A Chime Drone With Hints Of Rhythm (Waking Tired) |
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MONDKOPF
{website} Paul Régimbeau, aka Mondkopf, is a household name among the edgiest international festivals such as ATP, LUFF, Bozar or CTM, post-industrial warehouses of northern europe, industrial parties (Berghain in Berlin, Kaos in London) as well as more solemn atmospheres of churches, museums (BAL, Pompidou Center in Paris) or auditoriums (Philarmonie de Paris, Lyon’s Auditorium). Mondkopf has put forward his talents as a live artist, giving his melodic ambient music a power and a rager inspired by extreme metal. After a long period of solitary evolution, he has developed in this last years multiple collaborative projects, with Charlemagne Palestine, Saaad (in Foudre), Autrenoir, Oiseaux-Tempête, the japanese black metal band Vampilia and the noise american artist Pete Swanson (in VMO), libanese guitarist Charbel Haber (in Good Luck In Death). CONTRIBUTIONS: • Meditation In G |
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MONNIK
{website} Monnik (Monk) is a very apt moniker for this Belgian based experimental one-man band. Monnik wants to explore the boundaries of spiritual isolation, making his musical drones almost ascetic meditations. Layer upon layer of sounds and textures try to evoke an almost shamanistic - if not religious - atmosphere, in order to captivate the audience in an introspective hold. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Veroordeeld Tot De Dood |
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N
{website] N is one of the most prolific German drone / ambient artists - being active since the early 1990s he has released more than 50 records. CONTRIBUTIONS: • N(89) - Tossens |
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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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PADDY ROPER
Paddy Roper is best known as a former member of Manchester-based post-metal outfit Pijn, with a wealth of UK and European touring under the belt, including appearances at Arctangent and Roadburn. A multi-instrumentalist and experimentalist, he uses lap steel, double bass, keys and electronics to explore dense, unstructured soundscapes and gentle, subtle harmony - all of which is used with care and discretion in the upcoming dark exotica project POLA. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Bruise on Silence |
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CYRIL SECQ
[website] Cyril Secq (France) is the founding member of the group Astrïd. As part of the band he has released records on different labels (Monotype, Rune Grammofon, Gizeh Records) and collaborated with Sylvain Chauveau (Butterfly in The Snowfall) and Rachel Grimes. Cyril has also released records under his name with Orla Wren and Sylvain Chauveau. Based on instrumentals Astrïd’s and Cyril’s solo works consist in minimalist, primitive but also ambient, contemporary and cinematographic forms using many different instruments (guitars, keyboards, harmonium). CONTRIBUTIONS: • G1 |
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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 |
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THE STAR PILLOW
[website] The Star Pillow is the drone-ambient-experimental project of the italian composer and guitar player Paolo Monti, born in December 2007 and mainly based on the research of expression and relation between sound, space and human emotions. The Star Pillow actually has published 16 albums on labels like Boring Machines, Midira Records, Time Released Sound, Paradigms Recordings, Dead Vox. Continues uninterruptedly to play several tours and live gigs throughout Europe with intense and extreme performances. CONTRIBUTIONS: • Espalier |
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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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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 |
