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Soft Circle is the project of New York City based musician Hisham Bharoocha. His debut album, '' Full Bloom'', was released January 23, 2007, on the Eastern Developments Music record label. His sound is characterized by looped guitar riffs, drums, and repeated vocals. In 2009 Ben Vida (formerly of Town & Country) joined Soft Circle. The duo released an album entitled "Shore Obsessed" on November 6, 2010. Hisham Bharoocha is active on the social media platform Instagram as “Soft Circle” *(10/25/18) Discography *'' Full Bloom'' - Eastern Developments Music (2007) *"End of Summer" 7" - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever Vol. 6 - Geographic North Record(2010) * "Shore Obsessed"- PPM (2010) Splits *''with High Places High Places is a band originating from Brooklyn, New York, that subsequently relocated to Los Angeles, California. The band is a duo comprising multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson. Pearson and Barber met while Mary was comp ... 12" on PPM Re ...
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Brooklyn () is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Kings County is the most populous Administrative divisions of New York (state)#County, county in the State of New York, and the County statistics of the United States#Most densely populated, second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State
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with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the western portion of Long Island and shares a border with the borough of Queens. ...
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Experimental Rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisation (music), improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics (or instrumentals), unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it was not until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended and complex compositions through advancements in multitrack recording. In 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as Popular music, pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with electronic music, ...
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Eastern Developments Music
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New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ...
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Hisham Bharoocha
Hisham Akira Bharoocha (born March 12, 1974 in Niigata Prefecture, Niigata, Japan) is an American musician and visual artist best known as an ex-member of the Providence, Rhode Island, Providence bands Lightning Bolt (band), Lightning Bolt and Black Dice. Currently, Bharoocha is involved in his band Soft Circle and works as an artist in New York City. Biography Early life Hisham was born in Niigata, Japan, to a Japanese mother and Burmese father. As a newborn, the family moved to Tokyo and then to Toronto when he was two, then to Los Angeles when he was six, and spent the rest of his elementary school years in San Diego. Bharoocha's mother moved the family back to Tokyo after his father died of cancer. It was at this time he began to study the bass guitar and found an interest in Heavy metal music, heavy metal. After graduating from high school, Bharoocha attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island, where he stu ...
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Full Bloom (Soft Circle Album)
''Full Bloom'' is the debut solo album by Hisham Bharoocha, aka Soft Circle. It was released in January 2007 by Eastern Developments Music Eastern may refer to: Transportation *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways * Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991 * Eastern Air .... Track listing #"Ascend" – 3:01 #"Moon Oar Sunrise" – 8:20 #"Sundazed" – 7:06 #"Stones and Trees" – 7:08 #"Shimmer" – 7:01 #"Whirl" – 7:02 #"Earthed" – 7:09 2007 debut albums Eastern Developments Music albums Soft Circle albums {{2000s-experimental-rock-album-stub ...
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High Places
High Places is a band originating from Brooklyn, New York, that subsequently relocated to Los Angeles, California. The band is a duo comprising multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson. Pearson and Barber met while Mary was completing a music degree in bassoon performance at Western Michigan University and Rob was working in visual art, teaching lithography and etching in New York. Both were performing as solo musicians at the time, Mary as Transformation Surprise, and Rob as the Urxed. The two began collaborating under the name High Places in May 2006, after Mary relocated to New York. High Places, has performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art the New Museum and the Kitchen in New York City. They have performed at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as part of Doug Aitken's SONG 1 (2012) in Washington DC. In Berlin, they have performed via Volksbühne and Berghain's main room. With Lucky Drago ...
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PPM Records
Post Present Medium (or PPM) is an Independent Record Label l started and run by Dean Allen Spunt, also from the band No Age. Spunt started the label in 2001 with the release of a 7" by Portland/Olympia post punk band The Intima. Initial funding came from a settlment Spunt received as a teenager, when he got into a car accident with a member of the Backstreet Boys. PPM has released records from artists that include Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda, Barr, Best Coast, No Age, Gun Outfit, Silk Flowers, John Wiese, Eric Copeland, Infinite Body, and SFV Acid. PPM has at least 75 releases to date. Releases typically get 500 to 1000 pressings. Currently the roster includes Behavior, Syko Friend, Otis Houston Jr., P22, Gen Pop, Mayako XO, Brontez Purnell, Chronophage The Corpus Clock, also known as the Grasshopper clock, is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom, at the ...
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, the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ...
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