Alice Coltrane, born McLeod, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Recor
Octavian Nemescu is a composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere. Throughout many years, from his youth, he contributed decisi
A prolific producer of electronic music for more than two decades, Frankfurt born Peter Kuhlmann was one of the most influential figures of electronic and ambient music, with a significant - if not radical - contribution to this colorful and of
Costin Miereanu was born in Bucharest in 1943, but naturalized French citizen in 1977. Miereanu evolved his compositional style featuring a sensuous sonic fabric by combining Satie's techniques with an abstraction of Romanian traditional music.
Ornette Coleman was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album released in '61.Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant) in 1994. His album
Iancu Dumitrescu began composing his mature works in the early 1970s. In 1976 he founded the Hyperion Ensemble, described as "a multimedia group dedicated to experimental music". Several of Dumitrescu's early works for solo contrabass were reco
One of the most important contemporary composers from Romania, Adrian Enescu played a vital role in the music development of the '70s and '80s. Enescu composed over the years music for ballet in Italy, China and Australia, music for the stage i
Sun City Girls was an American experimental rock band, formed in 1979 in Phoenix, Arizona and disolved in 2007. Sun City Girls consisted of Alan Bishop (bass guitar, vocals), his brother Richard Bishop (guitar, piano, vocals), and Charles Goche
Brussels based DJ SoFa selects some of his old time favourite tracks by Aphex Twin which were made available for download recently and knits them together in a mix for The Attic.