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Laura Cannell is a British composer, fiddler and recorder player. She is the founder member of the innovative folk and early duo Horses Brawl. Playing fiddle, overbowed fiddle, double recorders, sometimes percussion and other rarefied wind instruments, Cannell draws on ancient transcendental and earthly musics. Her sense of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is super sensitive. Whether solo or otherwise she explores the spaces between ancient Read more on Last.fm

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James Holden is an electronic musician and tinkerer who has worn many hats across his twenty year musical career: producer, remixer, DJ, record label boss, synth maestro, band leader, mix engineer, software developer and all round jack of all vaguely musical trades. He lives in London with his partner (in life and business) Gemma, and their rescue Staffy Heidi. Holden was just nineteen years old and not quite finished university when he fell into a Read more on Last.fm

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Nihiloxica is a project that harnesses the full force of the ancient Bugandan drumming tradition of Uganda and focuses it on the contemporary dance floor through a dark lens of techno sensibility. Formed by UK musicians Spooky-J & pq and members of the Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, incubated in Kampala by acclaimed label Nyege Nyege Tapes, the cross-continental band explore the common ground between techno and tradition, a conversation between two cultures with a common aim: to make people dance. Read more on Last.fm

Brìghde Chaimbeul (born in 1998) is a Scottish piper who plays the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes. She won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016, and the "Horizon Award" in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Chaimbeul learned the fiddle and piano before taking up the pipes at the age of seven, having been inspired to learn the pipes after hearing Rona Lightfoot at the age of four. She received tuition from Niall Stewart Read more on Last.fm

Ex-Easter Island Head are a Liverpool, UK based ensemble, composing and performing music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Their music uses repetition, percussive processes, resonance and amplification with multiple electric guitars to create a sound that draws on minimalism, drone music, ambient sound and process music. As equally austere as it is sonically dense, the music of Ex-Easter Island Head is immersive and organic. Read more on Last.fm

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