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CHICO SCIENCE & NAÇÃO ZUMBI

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Chico Science & Nação Zumbi (CSNZ) was the former name of the Brazillian band led by Chico Science prior to his death on February 2, 1997. The remaining musicians continued on under the name Nação Zumbi. CSNZ released two albums by the time of Chico’s death, Da Lama ao Caos (From Mud to Chaos) in 1994 and Afrociberdelia in 1996. Both were critically acclaimed.  The band was the major name in the fertile musical scene in the Brazillian city of Recife by the 90’s. Together with the Mundo Livre S/A band, they were the main voices of the Manguebeat movement. The band integrants were: * Chico Science - Vocals * Alexandre Dengue - Bass * Lúcio Maia - Guitar * Canhoto - Percussion * Gira - Percussion * Jorge du Peixe - Percussion * Gilmar Bola Oito - Percussion * Toca Ogam - Percussion * Pupilo - Drums

YOUTHU YINDI

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Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for mother and child) is an Australian band with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members. The Aboriginal members come from near Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land.  The band tries to combine aspects of both musical cultures. Their sound varies from traditional Aboriginal songs which are literally thousands of years old to modern pop and rock songs.  In almost all their songs they try to blend the typical instruments that are associated with pop/rock bands, such as guitars and drums, with the traditional didgeridoo and clapsticks. They also adapted traditional dance to accompany their music. In a broader sense they promote the need for mutual respect and understanding in the coming together of different cultures.

SISTERS OF MERCY

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Originating from Leeds,  the Sisters of Mercy  were described by critic Steve Huey as playing “a slow, gloomy, ponderous hybrid of  metal  and  psychedelia , often incorporating dance beats.” The one constant in the band’s career has been deep-voiced singer  Andrew Eldritch . The band is named after the  Leonard Cohen  song “ Sisters of Mercy ” according to Eldritch. The band originally formed in 1980 with guitarist  Gary Marx  and drummer-turned-vocalist Eldritch.  Doktor Avalanche , the drum machine, joined them on their second single Alice. Guitarist  Ben Gunn  and bassist  Craig Adams  were added to make live gigs feasible, and the Sisters built a reputation through several singles and EPs. Gunn left the band in 1983 and was replaced by  Wayne Hussey .  They signed to WEA in 1984 and released the  Body and Soul  single. This featured a re-recording of  Body Electric ,  Train , and  Afterhours . This was followed by  Walk Away  towards the end of the year. The B-sides were  Pois

CRANES

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Cranes are a shoegaze/dream pop group fronted by Alison Shaw and formed in 1986. They were originally based on the south coast of England in Portsmouth. The band released their first album on vinyl, Self Non Self in July 1989.  The intensity of that album garnered very good reviews and caught the attention of John Peel, who picked up on the album right away, with the group recording a session for him in the album’s first week of release. Shortly afterwards they signed to the label Dedicated (which also became home to Spiritualized and Beth Orton) and went on to record their EP “Espero” in 1990, with the album “Wings of Joy” following a year later. The release of “Wings of Joy” caught the attention of Robert Smith of The Cure who picked the Cranes to open for them on their world tour in 1992.  They then went on to record the albums “Forever” (1993), “Loved” (1994), “La Tragedie d’Oreste et Electre” (1995), and “Population Four” (1997). After a 4 year break, Cranes re-emerge

XAVIER RUDD

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Torquay, Victoria (Australia) Xavier Rudd (born 1978) is a soulful Australian surf/roots artist from Torquay, Victoria (Australia), which is near the famous surfing location, Bells Beach. Rudd’s music is compassionate and always manages to render emotion in his fans. His songs include stories of the mistreatment of the indigenous people of his homeland; they tell of humanity, spirituality or the environment. The songs are written and sung with compassion and they urge the celebration of life.  Rudd is skilled with a variety of instruments, include guitar, shaker, didgeridoo, Weissenborn slide guitar, Tongue drum, stomp boxe, djembe, harmonica, ankle bells, and slide banjo. It’s an experience to watch him perform his songs live, as he plays the guitar, digeridoo and various percussion instruments simultaneously, using a unique stage setup. But the real magic comes when he opens his mouth and his soulful voice spills upon his audience. Rudd recalls that when he was 10, his

NITZER EBB

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Formed in Chelmsford when main protagonists Douglas McCarthy (vocals) and Bon Harris (drums, programming) were just 15, Nitzer Ebb cut a dynamic swathe through the electronic music and Balaeric beat scenes of the 1980s and 90s. They were electro-punks before the genre even existed, at a time when The Prodigy were not even a gleam in fellow Essex boy Liam Howlett’s eye. Militaristic, intimidating yet always accessible, Nitzer Ebb enjoyed a string of ferocious club hits and released five critically acclaimed albums on Mute. From their first-ever single, 1984’s ‘Isn’t It Funny How Your Body Works’ through to their final 1995 single ‘I Thought’, they were a band whose honed aggression, originality and precision were impeccable. The band’s musical adventures first began in 1982 when McCarthy and Harris, along with drummer David Gooday, formed the group whilst still at school in Chelmsford. Listening to the likes of Abwärts, Neubauten, Malaria, DAF, Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke and Bauha

STEREO MARACANÃ

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Stereo Maracanã is a capoeira eletrofunk music band from Rio de Janeiro, formed at 2002, their first record was “Combatente”, witch was famous for it’s live performances at Rio de Janeiro communities inside a bus with a stage in it, made by the band members and his record label, Maianga. The sound of Stereo Maracanã is a mix of capoeira, hip hop and electronics sequencers and drums, appreciated by Brazilians and all people around the world. Some of Stereo Maracanã music’s was selected by a various number of Brazilian compilations, and one of most famous was “Freestyle Love”, included at a compilation named “Brazilians Beats 5”, from a England record label Mr Bongo, open the Europe outboarders to Stereo Maracanã musicians, who was played in the most famous music festivals at Brasil. In 2007 Stereo Maracanã was invited to performance at           Popkomm in Berlim, Deutschland, after this they played at Brazilian movie festival at Paris, France, and Bruxelas,

SINKANE

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Sinkane has played/plays drums/other instruments in Caribou, of Montreal, and Born Ruffians. He now plays with Yeasayer. Sinkane music is derived from many bands, musical styles and feelings: Kraut, Psychedeli c, Shoegaze, Dream pop, Jazz, Drone, Classic Rock whatever you want to call it. It is ever changing/evolving.

THE GREENHORNES

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ( 1996  – present) The Greenhornes are a rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, formed in 1996, and featuring Craig Fox on lead vocals and guitar, Jack Lawrence on bass, and Patrick Keeler on drums. The band has released several full-length albums and singles. Their most recent release is 2010’s “****” (“Four Stars”), the first recorded by the band since their pursuit of other musical projects, such as The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. The band’s collaboration with Holly Golightly, “There Is an End”, featured on compilation album “Sewed Souls” was the theme song of Jim Jarmusch’s 2005 film, Broken Flowers.  Lawrence and Keeler, along with Detroit musician and producer Dave Feeny, were in the Do-Whaters, the band formed and led by Jack White of Detroit band The White Stripes for Loretta Lynn’s 2004 album Van Lear Rose. Lawrence and Keeler are now at work in The Raconteurs with Benson and White. Lawrence is also the banjo and autohar

SILVER JEWS

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Silver Jews’ earliest incarnation was the college band Ectoslavia, formed by future Pavement founders Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus and frontman David Berman at the University of Virginia in 1989. An exercise in joyous noise, the band disbanded after graduation and the three friends moved to New York to take up various jobs - Nastanovich, a bus driver, and Berman and Malkmus, art museum security guards. Pavement, a band started by Malkmus post-Ectoslavia, pre-New York, at this point began to gain attention. This attention resulted in a record deal and a constant inferiority plague placed upon the ‘Joos with Berman totally at the forefront of the group. Misinformed music fans now saw the band as a side-project and, even worse, Berman as being not good enough to play with Pavement, many band members being shared between the two bands. The connection to Malkmus and the now blossoming Pavement was not all negative, however.Drag City, then not the bastion of American folk m

CRUACHAN

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Dublin ,  Ireland  ( 1992  – 1997, 1999 – present) Cruachan (kroo-a-khawn) is a celtic and black metal band from Dublin, Ireland that has been active since the 1990s. They have been acclaimed as having “gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts to expand” the genre of folk metal. They are recognised as one of the founders of the genre of folk metal. With a specific focus on celtic music and the use of Celtic mythology in their lyrics, Cruachan’s style of folk metal is known as Celtic metal. The band named themselves after the archaeological site of Rathcroghan in Ireland also known as Cruachan.  Keith Fay had formed a Tolkien-inspired black metal band by the name of Minas Tirith in 1991. Around the same time, he began listening to more folk music and picked up Skyclad’s debut album the wayward sons of mother earth. Originally released in 1990, this “ambitious” and “groundbreaking” album made an impact on Fay and he set out to combine black metal with the fol