Sara Galan is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist based in Valencia.
She holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and MA in Creation & Investigation
from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), MA in Visual and Media Arts
from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), specialising in sculpture, sound and new media.
Sara also studied music and new technologies for performance, working since 2008 in projects that hybridise this step
along the academic world of the classic music and this most conceptual artistic formation.
As a musician focuses she focuses her research on discovering new ways of sound creation through improvisation and purely performative work.
Her works have been published by labels such as Audiotalaia (Spain) o LOUD! Label (Italy),
Envelope Collective (Spain) and RRS Reina Sofia Museum.
Sara has participated in festivals in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, Gijon, Bristol,
London and Rome leading to live performance her personal project and Cello + Laptop project
(with Edu Comelles) with whom she appeared at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona 2013.
Currently involved in several individual and collective artistic projects that come into direct relationship with sound and performing arts.
Sara also created the beautiful artwork for my album Moccasin Flowers and the background image on this site.
Veronique Vaka is a cellist and composer from Montreal, Canada, based in Iceland.
She studied electro-acoustic composition at the University of Montreal.
In 2012 Veronique received a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts for a mentorship in instrumental and electronic music in Iceland.
During her stay in Iceland she composed and recorded her first EP called Tveir Heimar.
Alongside her personal projects, Vaka composed scores for Seltjarnarnes Sinfoniuhljomsveit Ahugamanna's orchestra,
Ensemble Paramirabo and Icelandic's Duo Harpverk in 2013/2014.
Meanwhile, Veronique Vaka composed soundtracks for film, theatre and has taken part in many collaborations,
both as a performer and composer, with different bands from Iceland, Canada, Germany, Russia and more.
Tsumugine are a music performance group which has been active since 2008, initiated by Yasuno Miyauchi.
They play by using mainly voice and keyboard harmonicas.
Instead of reproducing a timeline which was created in advance, every member becomes a particle of the sound.
The particles follow a simple rule, and everyone creates a sound while moving, colliding, changing, and fusing.
The performance evolves spinning these spatial sounds together.
Tsumugine aims for a music performance which is not only producing sounds, but extends to special and visual expression.
Cyril Secq learnt guitar alone.
Attracted by its «noise/experimental» range of use, then he went to other instruments
(piano, harmonium, rhodes, analog synthesizer, sound objects).
He played in different bands then started Astrïd in 1997, with Yvan Ros.
From the begining of the 2000’s, he started to produce and record albums and has played with different artists.
(Mathias Delplanque, Floating Roots Orchestra, Charles-Eric Charrier,
That Summer, Sylvain Chauveau, Rachel Grimes, Orla Wren, Thousand and Bramier).
Grand Salvo is the name under which Melbourne singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paddy Mann records and performs.
He has quietly and unassumingly developed a body of work that has inspired both hardcore devotion and more recently, wider recognition.
Grand Salvo has engaged a depth of feeling to a most unique and affecting level.
It’s another affirmation of a true talent in Australia.
Lori Scacco and Eva Puyuelo are Storms.
They first met through mutual friend and collaborator Guillermo Scott Herren
when Lori was asked to tour as part of the Savath & Savalas live band.
They soon discovered that they had a deep-rooted creative connection and a shared love of 70’s psych-folk one-offs.
Lori Scacco was a founding member of Seely (Too Pure, U.K.)
and released her first solo recording, Circles, on Eastern Developments Music.
She lives in New York.
Eva Puyuelo is a member of Savath & Savalas (Warp). She lives in Barcelona.
Born in 1978 in Paris, Frédéric D. Oberland began music on the piano at the age of 6.
As a teenager, bored with his inability to play jazz piano he gave up on classical music and turned to electric guitar.
As a composer and musician, he has since collaborated with a wide range of talent:
from modern-classical The Rustle of the Stars with Richard Knox,
The Freemartin Calf with Gaspar Claus to ambient outfits Colin Johnco, Monolyth & Cobalt,
folk Arborea, Three Black Eyes, Dave Olliffe, spoken word Elisa Point, Brian Lewis Saunders,
free-noise-psychedelic Le Réveil des Tropique electroacoustic Bérangère Maximin, Sacha Gattino
Cinémathèque Française in Paris afforded him a carte blanche ‘Les Songs d’une Nuit d’Eté’, featuring a retrospective of his work.
Aaron Martin began his musical life at age 11, switching between guitar and drums.
At the age of 17, he decided to change paths and learn how to play the cello, which he went on to study in college.
While earning his music degree, he began to experiment with recording.
After creating several self-released collections of music, and graduating college, he recorded Almond,
which caught the attention of the Australian label Preservation, and became his debut release.
He has gone on to record two more albums for Preservation, River Water and Chautauqua
as well as one album for Experimedia called Worried about the Fire.
He has also collaborated with a variety of other musicians, including Machinefabriek, Orla Wren, Part Timer,
Dawn Smithson (as Winter's Day), and Dag Rosenqvist (as From the Mouth of the Sun),
with releases on Type, mobeer, morc, and Under the Spire Recordings.
Aaron Martin lives and records in Topeka, Kansas.
Katie English, aka Isnaj Dui, writes neo-impressionistic music using flutes, home-made dulcimers and electronics.
She has released several critically acclaimed albums, performed at venues such as the National Portrait Gallery
and Union Chapel and has collaborated live and on record with numerous artists from electronica acts to folk bands.
Katie is also one half of the bands Littlebow and Lowered.
Keiron Phelan is a multi instrumentalist.
Along with David Sheppard he was one of the founding members of post rock luminaries State River Widening.
Together as Phelan Sheppard they then released the album Harps Old Master on The Leaf Label.
Keiron formed the band Smile Down Upon Us with Japanese vocalist and musician Moomlooo in 2008,
they released a self titled album on Static Caravan.
Currently Keiron is one half of the band Littlebow with Katie English.
Moomloo is one half of Smile Down Upon Us.
Smile Down Upon Us is the duo of London-based multi-instrumentalist Keiron Phelan
(littlebow, Phelan-Sheppard, Silver Servants, etc.) and Tokyo-resident singer/electronicist moomLoo.
They are assisted on this album by, among others, guitarist/percussionist David Sheppard
(Ellis Island Sound, Snow Palms, and Keiron’s erstwhile partner in renowned UK post-rockers State River Widening),
cellist Katie English (Isnaj Dui, Doomed Bird of Providence, littlebow) and nomadic sonic alchemist Tui (Orla Wren).
Brimming with invention and gleaming instrumentation, the album proffers a cavalcade of plangent acoustic plucking,
mellifluous woodwinds and head-spinning electronica topped-off with moomLoo’s sweetly exotic, acrobatic vocals
and Keiron’s contrastingly declamatory baritone.
Fans of Tunng, Psapp, Tenniscoats, World Standard, Lucky Dragons and Contact Field Orchestra will all find plenty to wet their whistles here.
MoomLoo and Keiron were first introduced via social media and recorded the entire first Smile Down Upon Us album
(which was also eponymously titled) by exchanging files and without ever meeting in person.
That album was released in 2008, to much critical acclaim, by Static Caravan in the UK and by Yacca/P-Dis in Japan,
since when Keiron and moomLoo have been in the same room precisely twice.
Jessica Constable sings written texts or stream-of-consciousness lyrics.
She uses them to explore resonance and texture, sometimes using electronic filters, echoes and modulation to transform her voice.
Jessica also plays as a duo with New York sound artist Andrea Parkins, tours regularly with Ellery Eskelin,
Andrea Parkins and Jim Black (with whom she has also recorded two critically acclaimed cd’s:
which also included guests Marc Ribot and Melvin Gibbs and Quiet Music).
She has composed for dance and theatre and performed in recent years with French Jazz Patriarch Francois Jeanneau’s Pandemonium big band.
And has recorded albums and/or toured with amongst others Orla Wren, Jeff Sharel, Soulreactive, The Flow and Tellemake.
Russudan Meipariani is a Georgian composer, pianist and singer.
Her music refers to elements from Georgian, Scandinavian, Indian folk music,
as well as from classical, rock, minimal and medieval music.
Heidi Elva is a sound and visual artist who grew up in a small town in New Zealand.
She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Heidi creates music using an iphone, ipad, an app, 3 part harmony vocals, the harp, minimal beats, delayed effects, samples and loops.
Her art is influenced by ancient mysticism, 90s hip hop, the moon and the galaxies, fashion,
cinematic modern classical pieces found on the internet, South American culture, landscapes and streetscapes.
Hinny Pawsey is a North East based fiddle player.
She is a graduate of the Folkworks music course based at Sage Gateshead.
Hinny now teaches at home and at Sage Gateshead, providing youngsters great opportunities to watch,
listen and participate in traditional music, song and dance.
Urban9 is a graphic designer from Montreal.
He designed the album covers for the albums Book Of The Folded Forest, The Blizzard That Birthed Her
and Soil Steps.
Still transparencies from Urban9 were projected at various live performances 2014/2015.