Brian Lopez is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter from Tucson, Arizona. A classically trained guitarist, Lopez has toured as a solo artist, with his psychedelic cumbia/rock band XIXA, and as a sideman for internationally renowned artists Calexico, KT...
When continents collide, they make a thunderous sound. Arabian fuzz, they term it, a vision that’s brazenly electric and deeply connected to its roots. Al-Qasar was started in the Barbès neighborhood of Paris by producer Thomas Attar Bellier. The musicians came...
Following the release of Aksak Maboul’s acclaimed double album "Figures" (mid-2020), fifteen artists have revisited songs from the legendary experimental pop band’s ‘comeback’ opus on Crammed Discs. The participants include experimental pop luminaries The Notwist...
Composer, Producer and Violinist Simon Goff’s work seeks to find inner space between genres, exploring how the violin can be manipulated and processed to create a unique sound that defies traditional definitions. Growing up as a violinist performing in concert halls...
Adrian Crowley is a singer, composer, songwriter, lyricist from Galway, based in Dublin. Before his life as a musician, Crowley originally spent time on other pursuits, such as studying architecture, illustration, painting and photography. Crowley has released eight...
Nordmann came into being after a successful improv session that was destined to last. The four musicians succeeded in fusing the liberties of improv jazz with the intensity of rock music, and their shows immediately caused a stir in their native Belgium. They managed...
Raoul Vignal plays authentic modern folk. Vignales trademarks are compositions down to the smallest detail, soothing vocals and multi-faceted melodies played with finesse. His music was often described by the audience as "evocative" and "hypnotizing". After releasing...
Formed by multi instrumentalists Xavier Boyer, Médéric Gontier, Sylvain Marchand & Pedro Resende, Tahiti 80’s adventure began in the French cities of Rouen and Paris in the mid 90s. Singer and guitarist Boyer and bassist Resende formed the pop combo as students at...
The alter ego of French singer-songwriter Dorothée Hannequin, The Rodeo has developed a knack for unusual covers including Marilyn Manson’s “Beautiful People,” and Kanye West’s’ “Amazing.” The Rodeo’s album Music Maelström (Naïve) was partly recorded in Dallas, Texas,...
The English word "rock" has many meanings, but for Gemma Ray the most important one is probably different as to most musicians. The Berlin-based singer/songwriter from Essex sticks to the basic word meaning: rock as in stone. When Ray goes on tour she always takes the...
Parachute is Mélanie Pains third album, one that defies gravity. From the first words there is a startling contrast, an illusion of lightness, chiselled lyrics. Melanie has widened her horizons, decided to explore new territories and move towards the light. These are...
The Meat Puppets’ story begins during the early 1980s in Phoenix. Bostrom and Curt Kirkwood were in the dawn of their twenties, unemployed and Cris was going to school. The collective influences in play ran the gamut—classic rock, British prog, the Dead, Zappa,...
Traveling between experimental, electronic, North-African, Arabic, or cinematic music Emel Mathlouthi delivers a sound that’s as sensitive and non-conformist as herself, far from clichés and easy categories. Constantly reinventing herself, Emel Mathlouthi aligns...
Armed with a sack of harmonicas, a mess of foot percussion and a Telecaster, Shawn “The Harpoonist” Hall and Matthew “The Axe Murderer” Rogers kick out raw and primal blues; continuing in the tradition of a ‘decades - deep blues style', while electrifying the genre a...
Having met at Music College, Stephen and Paul went separate ways creatively. Stephen delved into pop, recording albums and touring extensively under the guise of Sweet Baboo, while working with Cate Le Bon, H. Hawkline and others. Paul leaned into the piano, pursuing...
The Glücks are the savage Bonny & Clyde garagepunk duo from Ostend(BE) that unleash more sparks than a disc grinder. Slap bang in the middle of a Golden Triangle mapped out by The Cramps, The Stooges and Thee Oh Sees. It's The Exorcist, garagerock style !...
Giant Sand was the primary outlet for the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft of singer-songwriter Howe Gelb. In three decades he’s managed to mash elements of rock, country, blues, punk, garage, lo-fi, jazz, gospel, avant-garde noise and flamenco gypsy...
Let me set the scene – irresponsible lovers are canoodling in semi-lit booths, the jukebox is playing some old tunes by Frank and there’s some people over there who never want to fall in love again. It’s the last bar still open and the piano player mooches over to the...
Born into a musical household, 1981 in Los Angeles, Kelly Finnigan grew up without any musical education until his teens, when he dove into the world of hip hop, beats and sampling, and began DJing. Kelly founded the hip-hop production crew Destruments, his own...
When the four original members first got together in 1992, they were young peeps with classical instruments, jazz skills and a punky attitude about to discover the world for the first time in their young lives. The band took a quickstart in the slipstream of...
After giving solo concerts some years Jacky has gained an international reputation. Fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Jacky Bastek was looking for allies to explore new soundscapes with her. With the two jazz musicians Yannik Tiemann and Felix Ambach, they...
After studying classical piano and percussion at the Luxembourg Conservatory, Jérôme was drawn towards the freedom of improvisation and jazz. He devoted himself to drums, vibraphone and piano. Jérôme studied at the Brussels Royal Conservatory, a.o. with Eric Legnini,...
XIXA are psychedelic. XIXA are cumbia. But, most of all, XIXA are rock n roll. Their music is rooted in a South American heritage, but is equally informed by their hometown of Tucson, Arizonas vivid-legendary music scene. Their interpretation of chicha - Peruvian...
John Parish’s list of musical accomplishments is long, yet for years the self-e acing Bristol native has been happy outside the spotlight. This twice Ensor nominated composer and Mercury Prize winning producer delivers a collection of songs, including a duet with his...
Emily Jane White is a musician, songwriter, and poet from Oakland, CA. She began performing under her own name in 2003 and released her first album "Dark Undercoat" in 2007, with "Victorian America", "Ode to Sentience", and "Blood/Lines", "They Moved in Shadow All...
With three records in store and a few tours, Spain managed to gain a loyal fanbase between 1995 and 2001 that has stayed devoted to this certain fascination of their music. They were peculiar with their seizing sound that links melancholic and intimate truths to...
Described beautifully by Shabaka Hutchings as "One of my definite favourite saxophone players from this country … one of the most distinctive and personalised sounds on the instrument that I’ve heard in a very very long time." Alabaster is also a poet, a performer and...
Multi award winning Polish jazz sextet EABS are widely considered to be one of the most exciting and accomplished jazz bands in the world. They apply an innovative approach to jazz, distilling it through the prism of hip-hop, mixing it with elements of soul, funk,...
Rachael Dadd from Bristol, whose daydreams are set to music in the most elegant lo-fi style, has something childlike but is by no means naive. She rather seems to be playfully attacking you with her music. From her songs, you can glean her desire to travel, which...
Best-known for their 2016 collaboration, The Colorist and Emiliana Torrini, The Colorist Orchestra has also toured and recorded with Sumie, Cibelle, Gabriel Rios and Lisa Hannigan. In 2021 they release an album with Howe Gelb and Pieta Brown, Not On The Map.
Daniel Brandt, co-founder of acclaimed German ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, released his second solo album Channels with Erased Tapes. The seven-track LP is Brandts biggest statement yet, with the albums thrilling avant-garde framework interweaving chord-driven...
Sam Amidon is a singer-fiddler-banjoist-guitarist originally hailing from Vermont, US. He has released solo albums on the Nonesuch and Bedroom Community labels. Amidon's material for his albums often consists of adventurous reworkings of traditional American ballads,...