experimental

In early 2010AD, TYSARC (an acronym for The Ympersand Suspended Animation Research Centre ) formed as an open collective, conducting experiments within improvised sound and music. Session inspirations come from environment, mentality and instrument availability, and the extended aural explorations span many musical aesthetics and sonic textural forms, yet consistently excite, hypnotize and envelop both collective members and audiences alike.

Originally a string quartet formed by four girls (Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir) at the Reykjavík College of Music in the late 1990s, Amiina went on to cut its teeth as Sigur Rós' string section for the next decade. Now a sextet after a recent masculine infusion, Amiina released its second full length album, Puzzle, in September 2010.

Light Music meets Dark Electronica.
Described as music that has elements of warm jazz and light music mixed with close up electronic beats, basses, melodies and momentary glitches. HealeyIsland is the one man electronic music project of a South West, UK based musicalist and composernaut. An exploration of where genres meet and collide, a place where dark Electronica meets Light Music, the music is deliberately diverse and eclectic in its reference points. HealeyIsland’s next album, Not Afternoon, But Evening, is out on White Label Music.

Graveyards is a free music jam squad led by John Olson of Wolf Eyes and Dead Machines, and the American Tapes label. Total fire-music free jazz ecstatic skronk that finds Olson trading caveman electronics for post-Ayler animal alto sax, backed by Ben Hall on percussion and Hans Buetow on cello.