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Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman are Scottish composers. They have orbited each other's worlds for a number of years through audio-visual collaborations spanning record releases, films and sound installations. Wasylyk’s cinematic compositions have been nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award and been awarded BBC Radio 6 Music’s Gideon Coe’s Album of the Year. He has collaborated with former National Poet for Scotland, Liz Lochhead, and written soundtracks for Radio 4. Read more on Last.fm

Sade is an English band formed in London in 1982 and named after their lead singer Sade Adu. The band consists of Sade Adu on vocals, Paul Denman on bass, Stuart Matthewman on saxophones and guitars, and Andrew Hale on keyboards and piano. The band has not had a permanent drummer since 1986 and employs session musicians for recordings and live performances. Sade's musical style spans soul, quiet storm, smooth jazz, and sophisti-pop. The band's debut studio album "Diamond Life" was released in 1984 Read more on Last.fm

Holy Tongue is a trio consisting of percussionist Valentina Magaletti (Vanishing Twin, Tomaga, UUUU, Raime, Nicolas Jaar, Jandek etc.), bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin, Vanishing Twin) and producer Al Wootton. Their music is psychedelic, and free form with inspirations from dub and dance. They started releasing music in 2020. Their debut album "Deliverance And Spiritual Warfare" was dropped in 2023. Read more on Last.fm

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Born in Fife, Scotland, as a child Clarissa relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark, whose cultural landscape has continued to fuel her creativity. Over many years she’s explored the sacred sites, mythology, and music of Nordic culture, finding enduring inspiration in the Celtic tradition. While she’s maintained an active role in the thriving local music scene, a global audience has awakened to her sound. She first gained international attention with Tech Duinn (2018), an hypnotic EP named after a spiritual gateway in Celtic myth. Read more on Last.fm

In the early 80's with a background working as a cell animator and hailing from a mid-sized industrial town, Harrisburg, PA, Michele Mercure was embedded in the the town's visual arts community but suffered for lack of decent music - a familiar whinge from anyone who grew up outside of the big cities - so she made her own wickedly inventive and expressive sound using synths, effects, tape loops and vocals. Her visual and musical worlds first gelled in a 1983 soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Read more on Last.fm

John Leyton is an English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song "Johnny Remember Me", (written by Geoff Goddard and produced by the legendary Joe Meek) which reached Number 1 in the UK chart in August 1961. John Dudley Leyton was born on 17 February 1939 in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. After completing his National Service, he studied drama, paying his way through drama school with bit-part roles in films and on television. His first major acting role was his portrayal of Ginger in a 1960 Granada TV adaptation of Biggles Read more on Last.fm

There are numerous artists with this name, including: 1) Milkweed is an American metal band formed in Ohio in the late 90s; 2) Milkweed is an experimental folk duo from the UK; 3) Milkweed was a Canadian prog-rock ensemble from the Province of Québec; 4) Milkweed is an American ambient artist from Chicago. 5) Milkweed is an American pop-folk group from Binghamton, New York; 1) Milkweed is an Ohio-based band, with its main fanbase located in Cincinnati and surrounding areas. Read more on Last.fm

Mark Fry (born in Epping, Essex, on 4 November 1952) is an English psychedelic folk musician and also a painter. He is best known for his album "Dreaming with Alice", released in 1972, which has been hailed by critics as a psychedelic folk classic. In 1970 Fry enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, where he studied painting. It was in Rome in the summber of 1971 that he recorded his first album "Dreaming with Alice" over a three-day period with a group of session musicians. Read more on Last.fm

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