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Alison Cotton is a British viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. As well as her solo work, she is one half of the Walthamstow-based songwriting partnership, The Left Outsides. She has been a member of Saloon, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Trimdon Grange Explosion, ... Read more on Last.fm

Dirty Three is an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis (violin and bass guitar), Mick Turner (electric and bass guitars) and Jim White (drums). They formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1992. During their career the group have spent much of their time overseas, when not performing together Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. The trio released their debut 'Sad & Dangerous', and eponymous album in 1995 Read more on Last.fm

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More than one artist has used the name "Glide". 1) Glide, born in September, 1975, is a Japanese music producer, DJ and drummer. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of breakbeats and first gained notice with the release of his debut track "The Experimental Phaser", which was constructed entirely from a laptop and some turntables. 2) Glide was a guitar band from Sydney, Australia, who were active during the mid-1990s. They released two albums (Open Up & Croon Read more on Last.fm

Amon Düül II (or Amon Düül 2) is a German rock band. The group is generally considered to be one of the founders of the Krautrock scene and a seminal influence on its development. The band emerged in 1968 out of the scene of hippies and squatters in Munich, Germany, but their strong interest in music led them to go their own way. They took their name from the old Egyptian name Amon, being an Egyptian sun god, and Düül, a character from Turkish fiction. Read more on Last.fm

Pentangle, along with Fairport Convention, were one of the shining lights in the modernisation of British folk music in the 1960s. Rather than adding elements of rock music, however, they leaned toward jazz, supplementing twin acoustic guitars with jazzy drums and acoustic bass. The band consisted of two of the superstars of British folk guitar, Bert Jansch (3rd November 1943 - 5th October 2011) and John Renbourn (both of whom also sang,) singer Jacqui McShee, bassist Danny Thompson and drummer Terry Cox. Read more on Last.fm

Cluster & Eno (1977) is a collaborative album by the German electronic music group Cluster and British ambient musician Brian Eno. The style of this album is a mixture of Eno’s ambient sensibilities, slight electropop influences and bizarre experimentalism. Having previously collaborated in the use of electronic instruments and experimental technique, Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conrad Schnitzler formed Kluster in 1970. This trio released three albums, Klopfzeichen, Zwei Osterei, and Eruption. Read more on Last.fm

The Pretty Things was an English rock band formed in September 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, with their name from Willie Dixon's 1955 song "Pretty Thing". They pioneered a raw approach to rhythm and blues (and later, psychedelia) that influenced a number of key bands of the 1960s British 'invasion', particularly The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie whose first hero was Phil May (born 1944; died 2020). The band did their final tour in 2018. The Pretty Things was preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys which consisted of Dick Taylor Read more on Last.fm

Kali Malone and Drew McDowall present Magnetism, their first collaborative album born from a decade-long friendship and ignited by a single day of creative synergy. When Malone stepped into McDowall’s Brooklyn home studio, a shared vision immediately took root and set the course for a remarkable collaboration between these two singular artists. On Magnetism, Malone’s poignant and evocative melodies manifest through McDowall’s signature timbral synthesis, creating a unified voice that soars freely and radiates with vitality. Read more on Last.fm