Newcastle, Australia (2004 - present) Alps is the solo project of Chris Hearn, from Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia and now living in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Alps plays a mixture of pop and experimental music, using electronic, electric and acoustic instruments, drawing inspiration from Australia and New Zealand's rich history of pop, folk and noise via labels like M Squared, Xpressway, Terse Tapes, Flying Nun, Spanish Magic.
Samuel and The Dragon is a collaboration between James Cameron and Samuel. Their debut release is on Moshi Moshi records on November 14th 2009.
There are multiple artists with this name: 1) A Japanese artist. 2) Lumiere is an Irish group consisting of two fine female voices, Éilís Kennedy and Pauline Scanlon. Both of them come from the small Kerry town of Dingle. Their sound recalls very early Joan Baez - just perfectly tuned voice with acoustic instruments. On their 2010 album, Lumiere, they sing seven songs in English - all in the Irish tradition - and four in Irish Gaelic.
Scissor Lock is an experimental ambient project of Sydney musician Marcus Whale, primarily using voice, tape feedback and laptop processing. Since 2005, Scissor Lock has released music on sound&fury, HellosQuare, Monstera Deliciosa, Curt and La Main Gauche and performed around Australia with, among others, Seaworthy, Shannon O'Neill, Anonymeye, Seth Rees, Pimmon, Justice Yeldham, Jeff Burch, Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn, Knitted Abyss and No Anchor.
Formed in 2003 in Newcastle, Australia, Grannyfist started as a 2 piece blast/grind/noise band, featuring Granny (Luke Hoskins) on guitar/vocals/samples and Saint Fistopher (Paul McIntyre) on drums and backing vocals, with the occasional noise and vocal contributions from Cut Off Bloody Hand (Matthew Close).
Other people did guest appearences on recordings, but the core line up was with Granny and Saint Fistopher.
There are a few bands with the name In The Wake. Hopefully you can tell our musics apart [1] In The Wake, a four piece band from Wichita, Kansas, performs/writes/records original music. With each member of the band having different musical influences the music that ITW writes has a unique sensibility that appeals to a broad audience. In The Wake's live shows are very high energy, the band demands attention with raw, but refined performances.
Lucie Thorne is a singer-songwriter raised in Melbourne and based in New South Wales. She has released three albums, the most recent of which 2009's Black Across The Field, was nominated for an Australian Music Prize. Her style is a frequently sparse, languid and evocative form of folk-rock. Thorne uses her songs to distill the poetic from the everyday, and each new song opens onto an unlikely world of stories and characters. It’s this breadth and depth of writing that makes her music feel a little like a favourite book: the moment you finish, you want to read it again from the beginning.
Britta Phillips was the singing voice of the hit 80's tv cartoon character Jem of Jem and the Holograms. Later, she was a member of several other "real-world" bands, including The Belltower, Luna, and Dean and Britta.