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Wandering around Jamendo is always fun, their collection of electronic artists never cease to amaze me. Today’s offering comes direct from their front page. Chill Carrier is basically Sebastian Kretzschmar. I wish I could tell you something about him but there isn’t a lot of info.

Guitar fetish time (and when isn’t it? I hear some of you ask). Today is about a single acoustic guitar, with six (count ‘em folks not five, not seven but six) nylon strings and being wrangled by Jason Vieaux.
Jason is a phenomenal classical guitarist. I only discovered him a while back when I was looking [...]

East meets West musical meditation is how multi-musician Prem Joshua describes his style of music. He and his impressive band combines Vedic chants and Sufi poetry in a fusion of jazz, ragas, reggae and much more.
The band is Prem Joshua on Sitar, Bamboo Flutes, Soprano Sax, Dilruba and Vocals, Chintan Relenberg on
Loops, Keyboards, Darbouka, Tabla [...]

Have you ever been rummaging through your playlist and found a band and not have any idea where it came from. That’s what happened to me with Almadrava. They have been on the MP3 player for months now, they show up and I think “Wow, that’s really cool” and the list move on and at [...]

The things you find on the Internet… Terry Riley has a Myspace site, well actually it’s the Italian Terry Riley Fan Club’s page but you what I mean, besides Terry is still busy writing music.
So who is Terry Riley I hear you ask. Well for me he is one of the first experimental musicians I [...]

“Explosions In the Sky“. Now I ask you, isn’t that just the coolest band name you have heard for ages. It conjures up (in my mind at least), wonderful images and the Mythbusters… but that would be me.
Even better is that there are three guitars (yes folks that’s three guitars) and drums. That’s it. None [...]

Way back in the past there was this wonderful (but weird) group called “The Portsmouth Sinfonia“. It was a real orchestra founded by a group of students at Portsmouth School of Art in the Seventies. But there was a catch, to get in you had to be either a non-musician, or if you could play [...]