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Asphodel Records
Asphodel Ltd ( ''Asphodel Records'') was a San Francisco-based independent record label founded by musician Mitzi Johnson and Naut Humon in 1992. The label is named after the mythological flower that grows along the banks of the River Styx in Hades. The label had shut down as of January 2011.Definition of Asphodel's name Asphodel has a diverse catalog of releases with a prominent experimental thread in the genres of turntablism, electronica, ambient, illbient, electroacoustic, trip hop, spoken word, noise, techno, and lounge. History The label's first release was the self-titled debut by Johnson's band, Blue Rubies. Naut Humon became the official Asphodel head of A&R in 1994. Erik Gilbert, once served as the label's General Manager,Erik Gilbert profile at IODA before becoming the Vice President of Content at the Indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naut Humon
Naut Humon is a San Francisco-based composer, curator, performer, and leader in experimental electronic music and audiovisual projects such as Rhythm & Noise, Sound Traffic Control. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Recombinant Media Labs (RML) and its internationally touring project RML CineChamber. Biography Humon began his career in the arts as a child actor in Seattle. Cellar-M was a musical project of Humon, percussionist Z'EV took part in this project.Hovancsek, Mik''Z'ev: Swords into Plowshares''. Adventures in Sound. Retrieved on November 30, 2012. He eventually moved to San Francisco in the early 70's to stage underground performances that operated outside of the traditional theater. Humon is a founding member of the experimental music ensemble Rhythm & Noise, who released two albums on Ralph Records. Humon has also worked with avant-garde vocalist and composer Diamanda Galás, providing Sampling (music), samples for her album ''The Divine Punishment'', as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lounge Music
Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music-influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro-space age cultural elements. The earliest type of lounge music appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, and was known as light music. Retrospective usage Exotica, space age pop, and some forms of easy listening music popular during the 1950s and 1960s are now broadly termed "lounge". The term "lounge" does not appear in textual documentation of the period, such as '' Billboard'' magazine or long playing album covers, but has been retroactively applied. While rock and roll was generally influenced by blues and country, lounge music was derived from jazz and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Spooky
Paul Dennis Miller (born September 6, 1970), known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel ''Nova Express'' by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the executive editor of ''Origin'' magazine. Career Spooky began writing science fiction and formed a collective called Soundlab with several other artists. In the mid-1990s, Spooky began recording a series of singles and EPs. His debut LP was '' Songs of a Dead Dreamer''. Spooky contributed to the AIDS benefit albums '' Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip'' (1996) and '' Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon'' (1998) produced by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Darling (musician)
David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra and released many solo albums. Among these were 15 recordings for ECM Records, ECM. Music career Darling was born on March 4, 1941 in Elkhart, Indiana. He was interested in music from an early age, beginning piano when he was four, cello at ten, and string bass in high school. He studied classical cello at Indiana State University and after graduating remained there another four years as a teacher. He worked as a studio musician in Nashville, Tennessee and was a member of the Paul Winter Consort until 1978. During the following year, he was part of the chamber jazz group Gallery with Ralph Towner and released his first solo album, Journal October. Darling's performance and composition draw on a wide range of styles, including classical music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Menche
Daniel Menche (born December 4, 1969) is an American experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Since 1989 he has recorded many albums that are categorized as electro-acoustic, noise music, dark ambient music, abstract, avant-garde, experimental, field recordings, drone, minimalist music, percussion and soundtrack film music. His music has a range minimalist quiet to densely loud. The sound sources of his music are wide ranging and diverse. They include manipulation of acoustic and electronic instruments, field recordings such as storms and nature sounds, feedback noise, electric Rhodes pianos, pipe organs, brass horns, granular synthesis, effects pedals, vocal choirs, prepared guitar and cellos. The core instrumentation is and continues to be far ranging. Recordings are created with analog and digital technology. Career Daniel Menche has performed hundreds of concerts since 1991. Countries that he has performed in are: USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Roads
Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. Career and music Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Roads studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California San Diego. He is former chair and current vice chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.MAT: Faculty and Researchers ", ''Mat.UCSB.edu''. He has previously taught at the "Federico II", |
Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.European Graduate School Biography . Retrieved 25 June 2011. Early life and education Christian Marclay was born on January 11, 1955, in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byzar
Byzar is an American experimental electronic music ensemble, considered one of the founders of the Illbient genre, along with DJ Spooky, Sub Dub, We, and the Soundlab collective, active in the New York experimental dance/electronic music scene during the 1990s.Shapiro, P.: "the Illbient Alliance" , ' ' Wire Magazine ' ' , issue 154, December 1996 Background Founded in 1994 by Akin Adams, the earliest Byzar recordings were long-form textural soundscapes made with a 4-track cassette recording of multiple layers of heavily processed guitars, found objects and a badly damaged Farfisa organ. Adams played guitar in an experimental rock trio called S*A*M, worked as an engineer in a hip-hop and dancehall studio called "Midimation" with artists such as Mikey Dread and KRS-One, and co-hosted a weekly event called "The Abstrakt Lounge" featuring Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky at the "3 of Cups" basement lounge in New York's East Village in 1993. DJ Spooky lived in the nearby Gas Station, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biosphere (musician)
Geir Jenssen (born 30 May 1962)Thompson, Dave (2000) ''Alternative Rock'', Miller Freeman, , p.197-198 is a Norwegian electronic musician and composer who records as Biosphere. A resident of Tromsø within the Arctic Circle, Jenssen is well known for ambient and ambient house pieces, often inspired by Arctic or mountain settings, and his use of loops and peculiar samples from science fiction and natural sources. His 1997 album '' Substrata'' was voted by the users of the Hyperreal.org website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album.Se"Classic Ambient Recordings: The 2001 Survey"at Hyperreal.org He has also composed several film scores. History Prior to Biosphere (1962–1991) Jenssen was born on 30 May 1962 in Tromsø, a city within the Arctic Circle in the northernmost portion of Norway. He was inspired by the music of artists such as New Order, Depeche Mode, Wire, and Brian Eno, which he described as "like discovering a new universe—a universe which I wante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badawi (musician)
In Arabic onomastics ("Nisba (onomastics), ''nisbah''"), Al-Badawi denotes a relationship to or from Bedouin areas (consequently "badawi" may sometimes imply ''rustic''). It is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Ahmad al-Badawi, a saint in Islam *Al-Baydawi, philosopher and mufassir *Jamal al-Bedawi, also written Jamal al-Badawi, a contemporary Yemeni accused and convicted of planning the USS Cole Bombing *Jamal Badawi, Egyptian-born Canadian professor and author *Abdel Hamid Badawi, Egyptian jurist and Foreign Minister *Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's fifth prime minister *Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher *El-Sayyid el-Badawi, Egyptian businessman and the President of Al-Wafd Party *Helmy Bahgat Badawi, first chairman of the Suez Canal Authority *Mohamed Badawi, Sudanese linguist and publisher, singer and composer *Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist, and writer *Nadia Badawi, Egyptian-born Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Magnuson
Ann Magnuson (born January 4, 1956) is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by ''The New York Times'' in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does". A founding member of the 1980s band Bongwater, Magnuson starred in the ABC sitcom ''Anything but Love'' (1989–92). Her film appearances include '' The Hunger'' (1983), ''Making Mr. Right'' (1987), ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1994), ''Panic Room'' (2002), and '' One More Time'' (2015). Early life and career Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to a journalist mother and a lawyer father. She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS. She attended Holz Elementary and George Washington High School in Charleston. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City and was a DJ and performer at Club 57 and the Mudd Club in Manhattan around 1979 through the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
