Amhakara:

Started by John Zorn (saxophone) of many, many things, most notably Naked City, Mick Harris (drums) of Scorn, Napalm Death, and Bill Laswell (electric bass) of Praxis, Material, Tabla Beat Science, in 1991, PainKiller is an extreme mix of free jazz, hardcore, dub, and noise.

Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia:

Tortured Souls:

Their style can be described as a mix of avant-garde jazz and grindcore; later albums also incorporated elements of ambient and dub.  The band has also had several musicians make guest appearances both live and in the studio, including Yamatsuka Eye, Buckethead, Mike Patton, Makigami Koichi, Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green of Godflesh, and Keiji Haino of Fushitsusha.

John Zorn established in 1995 the record label called Tzadik Records, wich is a not-for-profit, cooperative record label with a variety of artists with diverse musical backgrounds, including, but not limited to free improvisation, jazz, noise, klezmer, rock  and experimental composition.

Links: Mick Harris page, Wikipedia, MySpace, LastFM,

Part II

Part III

From the album The Resistance

Jason Webley is a Seattle-born singer-songwriter known for playing a mix of gypsy, folk, and punk. He has released five albums on his own label, Eleven Records. These feature Webley on the piano, guitar, accordion, and a number of other instruments, though when touring he only brings his guitar, accordion, and a vodka bottle containing coins from around the world, which he uses for percussion.

In high school Webley played in a punk band called Moral Minority. He picked up the accordion in 1996 in his last year in college at the University of Washington when he was part of a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and wrote a couple songs for the play on the accordion. He later recalled, “I was just a geeky kid; accordion came later. It’s since playing accordion that I’ve become cool. I used to be a geek with an electric guitar. I had a guitar and played in punky bands and I had a computer. I sequenced stuff. I was much geekier.”

Webley is the brains behind the Monsters of Accordion tour, an all-accordion extravaganza that takes place on the West Coast. The tour came together when Webley was invited to play at an accordion shop in Oakland, and met two Bay Area accordionists, Daniel Ari and Aaron Seeman. They decided to do a little accordion only tour, which was the first Monsters of Accordion. The tour has since featured such accordionist as Corn Mo, Geoff Berner, Amy Denio, Mark Growden, (former Gogol Bordello member) Stevhen Iancu, and Eric Stern (frontman of Vagabond Opera).

Icarus (with Amanda Palmer from Dresden Dolls):

Check also this amazing street performance of Icarus here.

Kitchen video clips:

MySpace, LastFM, Facebook, iLike, Internet Archive, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube channel, Official page.

Make a name as a businessman:

Corporate landscapes and casual fridays:

MySpace, LastFM, Facebook

After 3 years, Gossip is coming back with a powerful sound.

If you don’t know them, take a look. You’ll surely remember them

Standing in the way of control

Standing in the way of control (Roisin Murphy cover)

More and more after the jump!

Careless Whisper (cover)

Listen up

Don’t make waves

Myspace

Sainkho Namtchylak is an experimental singer, born in 1957 in a secluded village in the south of Tuva, an autonomous Russian state bordering Mongolia. She has an exceptional voice, spanning seven octaves and proficient in overtone singing; her music enmeshes avant-jazz, electronica, modern composition and Tuvan influences.

Lonely soul:

Inuit Wedding:

Excerpt from documantary “Sainkho -- a voice on the edge -- a journey of extremes”:

Order to survive:

Midnight blue:

Ritual Virtuality:

Kaar Deerge:

Old melodie:

Let The Sunshine:

Live performance from Lithuanian National Philarmonics, Vilnius:

TV russian show:

Performances:

Concert at “Yi du tang” in Shenzhen:

Links: Official page, MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Clever mix of music (eclectic fusion of dub, raggae, techno, trance and folk) coming from London (the band was formed in 1993).  With very unusual samples, their sound evolves from album to album, so check some new stuff too…and i bet they are great live too…

Myspace http://www.myspace.com/gregdread

Official site http://www.dreadzone.org.uk/about1.html

I feel sorry that Timbaland used their Courtship Dating song for a bad purpose and people don’t realise yet what’s good music and what crap:

Short bio:
Crystal Castles is a Toronto-formed band, consisting of multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass. Crystal Castles are known not only for their own efforts as a band, but also for their chaotic live shows and Kath’s remixes for a number of groups, including “Hunting for Witches” by Bloc Party, and “Atlantis to Interzone” by Klaxons.

Their musical style has been described as having “ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever”.

Links: Official page, MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Alice Glass is absolutely gorgeous. Gorette knows why… ♥♥♥

See also the previous posts with Crystal Castles: Knights and Crimewaves.

I don’t know yet if I like it or not…My doubts are that this band is too commercial and sort of linkin’ park dramatic…they do have some electro sounds that I liked…So, I let the audience judge…Bulgarian band that started (2001) with a project to create soundtracks for computer games and then they decided to stick to music…

Black Box Recorder are a British pop/indie group. They debuted in 1998 with England Made Me, a collection of lyrically sophisticated pop tunes. Musically, the group are influenced by trip-hop, ambient music, and French electronic groups such as Air. However the lyrics to these lush and romantic melodies are frequently bleak, ironic or sarcastic.

Links: Official page, Unofficial page, MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.