Artist Profile: James Sudakow explores dark matter with his electric violin

Having been raised on these kinds of records, James Sudakow, an electric violoinist based out of Long Beach, California felt like a sort of soothing blanket. He mixes synths with electro-loops and recycled breaks with live drums, percussion, electric guitar and bass and of course his whining, squealing, soaring electric violin played through a Marshall stack. […]

Artist Profile: The Sweet Acoustic Daydreams of Tom Bolton

This long-time songwriter has been working out his material around the world for a good long time and his Australian roots mixed with a love for Ryuchi Sakamoto, Arvo Part and Michael Nyman won our hearts over. It grabs you before your intellect has a chance to kick in with its jaded analysis and sends you on a wave of daydreams. […]

Artist Profile: Harlan Mark Vale

At times evoking Ryuchi Sakamoto, experimental John Cale, instrumental David Sylvian, or *gasp* George Benson, Harlan Mark Vale’s music summons delicate things in the imagination – a water spider skating across the surface of a lake, a meditative gaze beneath a willow tree. But there is something edgy about his work that keeps it in […] […]