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I spotted Laura B over at the Guardian – Band Of The Day back in September. The line that caught my attention was :Laura B (The Fantastic to her friends) is that rarity, a woman who not only writes, sings and performs her own material but also handles all the gadgetry in the studio and [...]

Jools pointed out that the YouTube meme “The Machine is Us/ing Us” has been updated. Fortunately the music is untouched. The music from this video is by Deus who I believe is from the Ivory Coast. I can’t really tell you much about him, but I can tell you that it’s damn fine music. Head [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]