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The avant-jazz guitarist Mary Halvorson has been making a stir in downtown New Music circles for a while now. She is noted for her collaborations with the violist Jessica Pavone, among many others. Halvorson's strong 2008 debut, DRAGON'S HEAD features her new trio, comprised of the extraordinarily fluent bassist John Hebert and drummer Ches Smith (of indie-rockers Xiu-Xiu). Together, they make a far-ranging, expansive, and even accessible sound. Hebert's more-or-less continual dialogue with Halvorson's spidery Read more on Last.fm

A trio led by guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen (El Doom & The Born Electric, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra). With one foot in heavy rock and one in jazz they combine the two, with a touch of blues. Fully instrumental apart from the distant shouting on a Melvins cover, their debut album Shoot! (2011) is more song structured than other, similar Norwegian guitar-led trios on Rune Grammofon, such as Bushman's Revenge and Scorch Trio. Their second album All Of Them Witches (2013) is a fully instrumental album built around Hedvig's guitar Read more on Last.fm

Mike Westbrook (born Michael John David Westbrook 21 March 1936 in High Wycombe, England) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces. He became a key figure in the development of British Jazz in the late 1960s. Westbrook spent his childhood in Torquay and went to art school in Plymouth where he began his first bands with such musicians as John Surman, Lou Gare and Keith Rowe. After moving to London, he became a key figure in the development of British Jazz in the late 1960s Read more on Last.fm

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Broadcast was a British ambient pop band formed in 1995 in Birmingham, England. The band's style explored 1960s influences like psychedelic pop and early electronic music through indie neo-psychedelia, heavily influenced by both the 1960s American psychedelic group The United States of America and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, using many of the same electronic effects and atmospheres. Their music fell under the style of British first wave post-rock -adjacent retrofuturistic acts like Stereolab and Pram. Read more on Last.fm

Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist whose current work is focused on concepts of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with acousmatic presence, environmental sound, obsolete media and the reappropriation of found sounds. A rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, answer-phone messages and other lost voices often find their way into his bewitching soundworlds. Read more on Last.fm

Rupert Hine (born Rupert Neville Hine in Wimbledon on 21 September 1947; died 5 June 2020) was an English musician and prolific producer in the synth pop era, helming albums such as Tina Turner's "Private Dancer", Howard Jones's "Human's Lib", SAGA's "World Apart", and The Fixx's "Reach the Beach". He was founder of the band Quantum Jump, and also recorded under his own name and the name Thinkman which he conceived as a virtual band. Many fans consider his tryptichon "Immunity" Read more on Last.fm

Rupert Hine (born Rupert Neville Hine in Wimbledon on 21 September 1947; died 5 June 2020) was an English musician and prolific producer in the synth pop era, helming albums such as Tina Turner's "Private Dancer", Howard Jones's "Human's Lib", SAGA's "World Apart", and The Fixx's "Reach the Beach". He was founder of the band Quantum Jump, and also recorded under his own name and the name Thinkman which he conceived as a virtual band. Many fans consider his tryptichon "Immunity" Read more on Last.fm

There are (at least) two groups called Supersister: a Dutch progressive rock band and a British girl group. 1. Supersister was an experimental rock band from The Hague, The Netherlands, active from 1968 to 1974 and again from 2019 onwards. They play a jazz-tinged brand of progressive rock. The classic line-up of the 1970s featured Robert Jan Stips (keyboards, vocals), Sacha van Geest (flute), Marco Vrolijk (drums) and Ron van Eck (bass). The band started as a playful school band under the name Sweet OK Supersister in 1968 Read more on Last.fm