Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. The band was established following the dissolution of Graduate, an earlier group influenced by mod revival music. Associated with the synth-pop movement of the 1980s, Tears for Fears achieved international commercial success during the Second British Invasion. The band's debut studio album, "The Hurting", was released in 1983 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Natural Snow Buildings is a duo from Vitré, France, consisting of artists Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte. They play music which can be classified as experimental, psychedelic folk with drone elements and ambient influences. Formed in 1997, they have released numerous albums, many of them in extremely limited quantities. Both members of Natural Snow Buildings record as solo artists: Mehdi Ameziane as TwinSisterMoon and Solange Gularte as Isengrind.
Iranian musician, producer and recording artist Leila Arab moved to London after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. She started recording for Rephlex Records her own style of heavily IDM-influenced soul/ambient music. Described by DJ Gilles Peterson as 'the best of what Britain has to offer in the cutting edge of music', composer/producer Leila has collaborated and toured live with Bjork, been featured on Plaid 's Not For Threes debut, and remixed the likes of Acacia under her experimental Gramatix alter-ego.
Hugh Hopper (29 April 1945 - 7 June 2009) was a composer and bass player from Canterbury, United Kingdom who achieved his highest public profile through his work with Soft Machine between 1968 and 1972. Though mass-market acceptance was never high on his list of priorities, Hopper will be remembered by connoisseurs of British experimental art-rock for his instrumental gifts and his idiosyncratic composing style, with The Soft Machine, as well as on a long string of solo albums, the most recent of which was Dune (2008).
Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States in 1996, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1999, and John Olson in 2000. During this time, the band also briefly relocated to New York City and at one point enlisted Andrew Wilkes-Krier, now known to the public as Andrew W.K.. The group is rumored to have released over 150 recordings in their relatively short lifespan, on labels such as Bulb Records