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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Recognized as one of the most influential songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a prominent figure in popular culture over a career spanning more than six decades. With an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians. Dylan introduced increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to early 1960s folk music, incorporating literary and poetic influences Read more on Last.fm

Steve Roach (born February 16, 1955) is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space. His work has been influential in the trance and new-age genres. Roach was born in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. He is an only child. He developed a passion for Motocross racing in the early 1970s, experiences from which he incorporated into his composing and performing later on. Read more on Last.fm

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Tommy Peoples (20 September 1948 - 4 August 2018) was an Irish fiddler who played in the Donegal fiddle tradition. Tommy Peoples born near St. Johnston, County Donegal, in Ireland was a member of well-known traditional Irish music groups, including Sixteen ninety-one aka 1691 and The Bothy Band, as well as performing solo since the late 1960s. He played in the unique fiddle style of East Donegal. After moving to Dublin in the 1960s, where he was employed as a policeman Read more on Last.fm

Mat Ball is an experimental guitar player from Montreal, Canada. A founding member of the group BIG|BRAVE in existence since 2012, over the last few years he has been quietly developing and working on solo guitar music. Very much like his work with BB, relying heavily on amplitude and feedback with a strong emphasis on minimalism and the drone, deconstruction is a key element in his compositions. Read more on Last.fm

幾何学模様 (Kikagaku Moyo, meaning "geometric patterns") were a psychedelic rock band from Tokyo, Japan, founded in the summer of 2012 by Go Kurosawa and Tomo Katsurada. In January 2022, the band announced they would go on an indefinite hiatus after 2022, and that their album, Kumoyo Island (released in May 2022) would be their last. Their first self-titled EP was released in September 2013 on Cosmic Eye Records / Sound Effect Records. Their full-length album "Forest of Lost Children" was released on May 20 Read more on Last.fm

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LINGUA IGNOTA is the solo project of interdisciplinary artist, composer, and performer Kristin Hayter. A classically-trained vocalist, she works with a variety of media and technology to create dense works harnessing the tech-mediated or acoustically extended voice, and is inspired by vernacular extreme forms such as black metal, power electronics, and harsh noise, as well as sacred and liturgical music. The -official- discography consist of three studio albums, two extended plays, and a big variety of singles. Read more on Last.fm

Michael Hurley (born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1941, † April 1, 2025) was an American folk singer and guitarist who was essential to the New York Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to playing a wide variety of instruments (including the fiddle), Hurley is also a cartoonist and a painter. Hurley's music has been described as "outsider folk". Hurley's debut album, First Songs, was recorded Read more on Last.fm

Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Calgary, Canada) holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a master's degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. As a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music, Davachi's compositional projects are primarily concerned with disclosing the antiquated instruments and forgotten sonics of a bygone era in analog synthesis, with concurrent treatment of acoustic sources – particularly organ Read more on Last.fm