Tomás Lozano takes you on a journey through centuries-old musical Spain by way of ballads about knights, kings, princesses, shepherds, maidens, sailors, millers and death. This is the nine hundred year old tradition of the Spanish "Romancero". Lozano mesmerizes audiences with his voice in accompaniment of spanish acoustic guitar and hurdy-gurdy.

A symphony of guitar, banjo, charango, ukulele and various children's percussion toys and keyboards. Only the Missile was inspired by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Ani Difranco and Eminem. Robin Grey's debut album was recorded in a small white room with a blue door around 2007-08 largely by accident, with a few friends helping with the colouring in.

"Robin Grey has a lovely fresh approach to the folk genre. A honeyed yet clear voice and his lyrics are arresting. A real treasure."
- The Londonist

"Robin Grey will not need to do too much to prove himself an incendiary artist in the world of folk music. There is literature in his words and his calmly exquisite mannerisms seem to bring you back to a simpler time and place."
- Fensepost

"Bluesy and folky, really bloody good."
- Song by Toad

In Kananga transports the heat, pure power and color of West/Central Africa between Tanger (Marocco) and Kananga (Kongo). There we meet the famous medicine man.

The inseparable force of rhythm and harmonies creates floating pictures you never imagined before. The track "How to ride an elephant" explains better that any special elephant-user-guide how to do what it says.

The song "Cutzi" is sung in Purepecha (the language of the Central Mexican Indians) and is an entrance to deeper meditation. Perhaps you will find here even more spiritual power than in the wise words of the medicine man. "Lovedrive" is a rare but at the same time impressive dance somewhere between industrial and trip hop.

Andreas Ecker (aka The Headroom Project), designed new instrument phrases by separating the overtones from existing samples and treating them like independent notes, changing their time-lapses and pitch-curves. You can hear the results on "fragile piano suffering under micro organismas" or on "Gerome" (where the percussion hits in the background).

Lunatic Binge veers from sick rock and roll to melodic musings about life. Think Trent Reznor meets the Bee Gees (after a drug binge). Think Pink Floyd for the 21st Century. Think Ozzy and a sequencer doing battle for each others' soul.

Mike locked himself away in his "Sober Sucks Studios"--lovingly caressing his guitar strings in the most god-awful perverted way. His poor keyboard was banged and hammered from one end of the studio to the other. Between psychotherapy sessions Mike and his mixer/therapist Paul Kurzweil, wrote and recorded 18 songs, 13 of which come together on the deliciously demented and aptly titled "Lunatic Binge".

The compositions on The Glass Desert are instrumental and range in moods from ambient and celestial to darkened and tragic, always with a layering of harmonies and an intricate structure. The writings are usually in minor key and can sometimes end up gothic sounding. The style is very unlike traditional classical guitar music, using multiple instrument parts, elaborate arrangements, and unusual timings.

The front cover artwork is one of Harlan's original paintings. These detailed works have been on display in galleries in North Carolina and Louisiana. The subjects are all structural or things that don't actually exist, sometimes taking as long as an entire year to finish.

All of the song titles on this recording are found somewhere in the scope of Christian history or directly in the Bible itself. For example, "In Nomine Domini" is Latin for "In the Name of the Lord", "Gregory IX" was the pope who instituted the inquisition, and "The Limb of the Fiend" is 16th century reference that's another way of saying "The Arm of Satan".