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Bridget Hayden wrote history as a violinist with Vibracathedral Orchestra, the mother of early twenty-first century European avant-garde drone rock. In 2006 she left the band to focus on her own work, which alongside that of intense drone pieces also includes poetry, film and painting. With guitar and viola she exorcices the heavy noise from her body. Read more on Last.fm

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Ian Humberstone is an independent researcher, musician and librarian based in Edinburgh, UK. He also records under the name Tissø Lake with various guest musicians. He is the founder of the ITLAN label and co-founder of Folklore Tapes. Read more on Last.fm

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Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian Pop singer. At the age of 16 she won the San Remo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non ho l'età" (I'm not old enough), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri. Her victory enabled her to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the same song, and she went on to claim her country's first-ever victory in the event and achieve the first UK Top 20 hit with a non-English-language Eurovision song. Read more on Last.fm

Nusantara Beat is a musical collective from The Netherlands that creates a contemporary world groove whilst paying homage to traditional Indonesian sounds. Featuring band members from Dutch bands such as EUT, Jungle by Night and Altin Gün, Nusantara Beat released their début single, 'Djanger', in April 2023. In the words of the band themselves: "Nusantara Beat's commitment to honoring tradition is only part of their mission. They also strive to showcase the immense diversity of Indonesian music and usher it into the future. Read more on Last.fm

Kit Sebastian is a duo formed in London by Kit Martin and Merve Erdem, spread between Turkey and France. Their music is a meeting point of different genres from Anatolian Pyschedelia and Brazilian Tropicalia to 60’s European pop and American jazz. Read more on Last.fm