San Francisco’s Moon Duo was formed in 2009 by Sanae Yamada and Erik Johnson (Wooden Shjips). Inspired initially by the legendary duo of John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion and vocals, the duo plays space against form to create a primordial and disorienting sonic stew.
Assemble The Empire are currently spending all of their time writing and demoing new tracks for their debut album. They are going to self produce, engineer and mix the album and plan to start recording on a farm in the middle of nowhere at the end of 2010. The album will be mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge in New York City, who has also mastered Brand New’s “The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me” and “Daisy”.
Spokes are an alt-indie band based in Manchester, UK. Brought together in 2006 by a combination of boyhood friendships, family ties and a relentless love of recording and touring. They quickly made a name for themselves as a loud and passionate band as they travelled the country in cramped vans, steadily perfecting their ecstatic highs and devastating lows. In 2007 they recorded their debut EP People Like People Like You which combined their folk inflected indie with more flowing structures influenced by post-rock and classical music.
Brisbane, Australia. Restream is a producer creating shoegaze lofi post-rock. Though there are ideas from laptop music, glitch and abstract hip hop, this album is about songs, epics more often than not, with a firm focus on harmonies and textures more than the intricacies of beat science. His debut release "Loopsforstereogram" corresponds to a computer artist wringing life out of computers, repeating the improvised, integrating the indie record collection with the electronic.
Since their inception, The Matador have continued to cast themselves apart from the Australian mainstream of heavy music by pushing the boundaries of sound experimentation. Their progressive and dark undertoned layers of music range from down tempo, complex soundscape arrangements to epic, driving walls of earth crushingly heavy guitars, drums and vocals. With an imminent EP release on the way, expect to see The Matador continue to push these boundaries.
The Australian-born American singer who “looks like a pop diva but sings like a real one” (St. Louis Post Dispatch) regularly appears on the world’s most prestigious opera and concert stages and has an exclusive recording contract with Decca. For her debut solo album, Handel Arias, released in 2007, de Niese was named New Artist of the Year at the 2008 ECHO Awards, received the 2008 Orphee D'Or by the Academie Du Disque Lyrique, and was nominated for the 2009 Classical Brit Award for Female Artist of the Year.
bee mask is the project of the cleveland native chris madak. using oscillators built into glass jars, synthesizers, guitar, processing and other methods of electronic experimentation, this dude brings next level white light sounds similar to that of phill niblock, tony conrad, or even the mellow aspects of ash ra temple.
http://www.deception-island.com/beemask/
Black Metal/Ambient Lyrical theme(s) Anti-humanity, depression, suicide Origin Formed in Australia (New South Wales (early), Melbourne, Victoria (now)) Current line-up Due to personal and conceptual elements of Nontinuum, the band members wish to remain anonymous to the public. The demo CD "Dwelling In Oceans" is now available from Misanthropic Art Productions as well as through Nontinuum. Send a message for more information. At this stage, reviews for "Dwelling In Oceans" are overwhelmingly positive.
Hands of Ruin is colin z robertson's dark electronic music project, influenced by electronica such as Aphex Twin and Autechre as well as industrial bands such as Dead Can Dance, Arcana and In Slaughter Natives. HandsOfRuin.com
Devin Townsend Project begins where Ziltoid the Omniscient left off, with Devin Townsend at the helm. The project is a planned four-album series. Rather than a specific line-up of musicians, as he utilized in The Devin Townsend Band, and rather than performing the entirety of the music himself, as in Ziltoid the Omniscient, the Devin Townsend Project will feature a number of different musicians for each album.