Elvin Brandhi(UK)

Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice.

Using sound and voice as an expansive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes, her live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. Her creative momentum comprises a range of collaborations and an endless nomadism.

Finlay Shakespeare(UK)

Crafting restless synth-pop from a background in DIY electronics and modular design, the London-based artist and modular synth head Finlay Shakespeare bridges the hooks of ’80s icons with the grit of experimental sound. His albums channel melodic intensity through analog circuitry, raw vocals, and dense rhythmic energy. Live, he blends charismatic performance with hands-on modular rig improvisation, landing somewhere between post-punk urgency and electronic futurism.

Kathryn Mohr(US)

The music of Oakland-based singer-songwriter and multi-media artist Kathryn Mohr exists in a liminal space of auditory dissociation. Drawing inspiration from lost items washing up on the shore of the San Francisco Bay, Mohr’s art chases the ephemeral nature of humanity, the warping of memory, and how trauma changes one's experience of this world. Mohr depicts the disturbing intricacies of her mind, transforming dull discomfort into a creative resource, a spring of creativity that pushes her world outside of herself.

KMRU(KE)

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. An awareness of surroundings through creative compositions, installations, and performances.

KMRU has carved out a serious and definitive space on the list of essential authors in ambient- experimental music-one of the most prolific and innovative artists in his field.

Polonius(EG/FR)

Polonius is the music project of Egyptian-French artist Seif Gaber, whose works span a decade of “science fiction archeomiragical time travel” explorations. Polonius’ grand vision encompasses a myriad of languages culled from kosmische travelings, exotica’s dreamlands, soundtrack psychedelia, spiritual jazz escape routes, and transmuted beat science to convey them into a sonic fiction where all these trails intertwine in a cosmological soundscape filled with wonder and speculation.

The Shadow Ring(UK)

Throughout their legendary, decade-long run, the Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. Before their disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit, formed by a group of rowdy teenagers in southeast England, left behind a mighty run of eight LPs, a handful of 7"s, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique.