Billie, Nina, Otis, Jimi, John & Alice Coltrane, Captain Beefheart, Graham Bond, Albert Ayler, Buffy Sainte Marie, Oscar Brown Jr, Andy Bey, Jeanne Lee, Kristin Hersh, PJ Harvey, Camille, Sainkho Namtchylak, Portishead, Tom Waits, Maggie Nicols, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Fred & Ginger, Gershwin, Gong, Balkan brass bands, Aretha, Stevie, Janis, Nick Cave, Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Doris Day, Juana Molina, improvisation, instruments, the moon, beautiful, weird & random everyday stuff... ♥
Hello, I'm Lou, primarily known as a vocalist but I also dabble with guitar, keys, production & other bits & bobs. I have been performing since my teens when, amongst other things, I busked the streets with my saxophone to make a living.
Current Projects:
I sing with The Blendaholics under the name of Lou Amour. Some of the songs on my player will be released on Venus, their debut album, out soon!
I'm also writing new songs for a bluesy-old time-lilt project with Pete Moody (Superkings) as well as working with Kid Cholera, a producer & musician based in Dallas, US.
You can hear some of my solo dabblings over here. I assure you they're evolving!
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Hey there Missus, shameless plug alert! feel free to kick it back tart about town that I am! Would love to hear your thoughts on the album cos I really value your opinion and support and no mistake...
I'm proud to give you "Heavy In The Beats Vol. 1 - A Different Drum", the first installment in my FREE mixtape series dedicated to drums and percussion. "Volume 1" focuses on the avant garde side of the instrument, and features pieces from Billy Martin (of Medeski Martin & Wood), myself, and others!
(you have to COPY AND PASTE THE LINK on myspace for some reason)
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Hi! Next Tuesday, 08/09/09 NATEMA, the most enjoyable electro tribal live act at 22:00 at GUANABARA, the largest Brazilian late night venue in London. http://gigs.guanabara.co.uk/live-music-7-nights/guanabara-summer-season-natema-live/ NATEMA brings together different extremes of electronic music and combine them with Brazilian folk rhythms. Exotic instruments like the alfaia, berimbau and the pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine), bass and guitar blend harmoniously with all with laptops, moogs and other synths, the result is an extremely dynamic and versatile live act. Formed by Boni (programing / bass), Luis Valente (guitar, vocals) and Pedro Campolina (Percussion) Come down and enjoy something unexpected! FREE ENTRY the whole night. See you there! www.natema.com
We just thought we'd just drop you a heads up about some of the stuff we've been blogging about at IndieLab this month, hope you enjoy it. Keep us in touch with what your up to....
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