Beach House is a dream pop group which formed in 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The group consists of Victoria Legrand (vocals, organ) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards). Legrand is the niece of french composer Michel Legrand.
The band release their third album "Teen Dream" last year, produced and engineered by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear). The album's unanimously good reviews have gained the band a much larger fan base, with celebrities such as Jay-Z and Beyonce being spotted at their shows.
Florrie is a 22 year old English singer-songwriter and drummer, not to mention the face of Nina Ricca! A busy lady by the sounds of things! She played in the Xenomania house band and played drums on bona-fide pop hits by Girls Aloud, Pet Shop Boys and Alesha Dixon.
Her latest track ‘Come Back to Mine’ featuring production by Moguai (recently signed to DeadMau5′s label) is her best yet – a six minute electro disco-stepper which has traits of all the best kind of pop music – big changes, big melodies, big production. Watch out for more from Florrie, destined to be a hit in 2011!
Meet Cloudhanger,a LA-based band comprised of Marc Monroe Johnson (vocals, guitar), Joe Luisi (drums), Tim Hafer (guitar, keys, vocals), and Jeff Remsburg (bass).
Jorge Narvaez uses an acoustic guitar and his daughter Alexa to cover Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros' Home and melt your heart.
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The Cinematic Orchestra is a U.K.-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe, which records on the Ninja Tune independent record label.
Other members include Tom Chant (saxophone), Phil France (double bass), Luke Flowers (drums), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar); former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), Alex James (piano), and Patrick “PC” Carpenter (turntables).
In both live and studio context, the Cinematic Orchestra employ a live band which improvises along with a turntablist and electronic elements such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In their studio releases Swinscoe will often remix the live source material to produce a finished product that is seamless combination of live jazz improvisation with electronics, such that it is difficult to tell where the improvisation ends and the production begins. It is worth mentioning that in the sound of the Cinematic Orchestra the role of traditional solo instruments, such as piano or wind instruments, is not the same as in traditional jazz; instead of performing intricate solos they provide a mature accompaniment environment and quite often there is more space for the drums and the double bass to have a lead role.
The Cinematic Orchestra have been noted for their new score to the classic 1929 Dziga Vertov’s Russian film Man with a Movie Camera. They worked on two other scores. They recorded some tracks for “Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d’enfants” (2004) and made the music for the Disney Nature movie “The Crimson Wing” (2009).
