Sleep/Swim

The trio uses prepared double-bass, guitar and piano to create a multilayered textural enviroment, ultimately giving the illusion of a single meta-instrument. Exploring a variety of sound possibilities and combinations, the group invites the listener into a musical panorama which is both kitchy and cute, but at the same time dirty and obscene. The name sleep/swim is borrowed from a song by an Icelandic band; coincindentally these are also the main activitives from a member of sleep/swim's fictional honeymoon.

The band is:

Jasper Stadhouders: (prepared) guitar / found or stolen objects.

Andrea Taeggi: (prepared) piano/synth /harmonium/stolen or found objects.

Santiago Botero: (prepared) double-bass.

The Norwegian duo Ballrogg is bass and reeds in an acoustic setting, balanced with improvisation and semi-composed originals from their latest album. The duo released their second album Insomnia in January 2010 on the Norwegian record label Bolage. 

Since their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album the duo has moved into significantly deeper water, drawing influences from European contemporary music as well as American avantgarde. On Insomnia, their influences are mixed with a cinematic sensitivity, creating soundscapes that are deeply disturbing and stunningly beautiful.

Ballrogg is saxophone and clarinet player Klaus Ellerhusen Holm and double bass player Roger Arntzen. 

www.myspace.com/ballrogg, www.ballrogg.no

GAIL PRIEST

Simultaneously harsh and ethereal my sound is created from multiple manipulations of vocal & instrumental material and field recordings with the intention of releasing the hidden melodies and broken beats found in sonic debris. My works seek the slippage between the visceral and the digital, the sensual and the intellectual, the figurative and the abstract, to create potent atmospheres and nearfuture fantasies. www.gailpriest.net

“Gail Priest has been exploring the timbre and elasticity of sound in a way that has become distinctly her own… Treading a tightrope between darkness and light, texture and space, Priest creates sound worlds that never feel too gloomy or melancholic. It is this duality in her work, which keeps refreshing her sound and charting new directions.” Roger Mills, review of Fear of Stranglers, Furthernoise, June 2010 http://www.furthernoise.org/