Author: Sweeperlutze

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris. Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a Sex Pistol concert. While Joy Division’s first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk, […]

Hailing from the rural outskirts of Cornwall, Ted Jasper grew up on the Southwest coast where, inspired by his surroundings, he began an obsession with producing, remixing, and re-working electronic music. The short but powerful discography of London based house prospect Ted Jasper has shown the producer is willing to paint outside of the lines. […]

Like the New Orleans street music it offers, Ramène Ta Trompette was formed around the streets and squares of the pink city of Toulouse, and now extends its territory wherever it is welcomed. The band consists of Clarinet – Mathieu Viry, Trombone – Fanny Schubnel, Tuba – Coline Lemarchand, Banjo/Vocals – Valentin Oustiakine and Washboard/Vocals […]

N’famady Kouyaté is a young energetic master musician from Guinea, who relocated to Cardiff in 2019. A talented multi-instrumentalist who wowed audiences across the UK and Ireland during autumn/winter 2019/20 with his modern interpretations of traditional West African Mandingue songs and rhythms supporting Gruff Rhys on the Pang! album tour. N’famady’s primary instrument is the […]

Pon Jantapon is a well-known Thai artist working under the Pordeemuan Studio. She was a member of the project group SODA5. She made her solo debut on February 2017 with the digital single “Poo Neep E-Pi”. It gave her, her highest charting position at No.3. Pon Jantapon’s song have spent spent 5 weeks in the […]

The Band Perry were an American band composed of siblings Kimberley Perry (lead vocals, guitar), Reid Perry (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Neil Perry (mandolin, bouzouki, backing vocals). Kimberly sang in her own band as a teenager with her brothers Neil and Reid working as roadies. At ages 8 and 10, the brothers began performing […]

While the title makes you think otherwise, something about the portrait of Taiwanese singer Lily Chao on the cover of Chinese Folk Songs tells you that this is not exactly an album of folk music. Maybe it’s the silky pink dress; maybe it’s the look on her face, big eyes gazing upward as she poses […]

Julian Edwin Adderley was born in September 1928, in Tampa, Florida. His elementary school classmates called him “cannonball” (i.e., “cannibal”) after his voracious appetite. He was a jazz alto saxophone of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during […]