Biography, fall 2007

Parades is the highly anticipated second album by Denmark’s Efterklang, the follow up to their underground hit of 2004, Tripper . Comprising 11 majestic, otherworldly pop songs, Parades manages to be both magnificently ambitious and engagingly intimate; a breathtaking panorama of sound with few clear antecedents. Music with no boundaries. In a parallel universe, songs ... [More]

Harold Budd is one of the very few artists who can correctly be referred to as an ambient composer. His music, a sparse and tonal wash of keyboard treatments, was inspired by a boyhood spent listening to the buzz of telephone wires near his home in the Mojave Desert town of Victorville, California (though he was born in ... [More]

Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, American born composer and pianist Erik Griswold has been a leading force in Australian contemporary composition for prepared piano for many years. Splitting his time between solo pursuits and his work with percussionist partner Vanessa Tomlinson, his compositions have been presented across the globe in the US, UK, China and other locations in Asia and ... [More]

Erikm has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turntabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up Erikm has followed up ... [More]