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her integration of Eastern and Western influences into her compositional style is less about a fusion of styles as it is about tapping into a cartography of her own personal memory and experiences

The second installment of the recording of Schubert's complete string quartets by the German Diogenes Quartet

to the very adult world of touring

and edited by Erhard Bodenschatz

become the rawest

vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly

resulted in a shoegaze-effect that set IRIS a world apart from the grey mass of random synthpop acts

with it's location at the southern tip of western Europe

and San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Gunz and Bars prove themselves to be both lyrically and sonically compatible

light-hearted character of the second

Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish