The Painful Leg Injuries are Bill and Suzanne Byrne . Bill Byrne is an internationally exhibited multimedia visual artist who performs wildly experimental electronic and noise music as The Painful Leg Injuries, with his wife Suzanne.

The Painful Leg Injuries are about a pure love of sound. Bill combines field recordings, homemade electronics, circuit bent toys and keyboards, classic video game sounds, warped old trumpets, guitars and accordians. He uses unusual techniques including gathering audio data from file conversions of his visual art, and sampling every day sounds on his cell phone. Suzanne plays lovely cellos drones adding a classical sense of beauty. The result is a wall of sound that is aggressive, pretty, alien and comforting. At times it will recall sci-fi and horror sound tracks and at other times droney world music.

Byrne’s compositions display a structure that channels his influences into an ulikely mix. The Painful Leg Injuries merge noise music of Wolf Eyes or the Vibracathedral Orchestra, with the pop ambience of Fennesz and Boards of Canada. Byrne believes that cacophony needs to be earned giving dynamic twists which either build to a shift or take a sudden unexpected turn.

Live, the Painful Leg Injuries deliver a wide variety of dynamic sounds. Bill performs a plate-spinning act of playing his laptop, Gameboy, trumpet, xylophone, circuit bent toys, his Tincanjo (a homemade guitar of sorts, made from an aluminum peanut can and Suzanne’s broken cello strings), ipod, while Suzanne’s cello drives the kaleidescope of sound forward. They include Byrne’s animation video art as part of their live performances.

They’ve recently released their third album The Anomaly That Had Gotten The Better of Me on OKS Recordings of North America, the label Byrne runs with longtime collaborator Jonah Goldstein. They’ve also released a 3” CD-R on Hong Kong’s Lona Records called The Quicker Are The Encumbered. In late 2007 they released a full length album as a free download with the label Noise Joy, The Forever Ending Revolutions On Autopilot. 

The Painful Leg Injuries are currently based in Austin, Texas. All of their releases are available at oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com and iTunes.



Pocketsongs

Almost 3 were born thanks to two curious musicians' desire to have fun and experiment, with the intent to unleash their own creativity using the unusual match of a female voice with a cello and transcending stylistic bounds. From Depeche Mode to Noir Desir, from Gershwin to Soundgarden, each song is reduced to essence and becomes a "pocketsong", easily portable through time and from one genre to another. The cello looses his merely classical capacity, continuously gaining a new and unusual personality: thanks to "borderline" techniques, it turns into a bass, a guitar, a percussion instrument. In addition to the acoustic sound, loops, vocal effects, flute, kazoo and iPad complete the arrangements, creating a unique and incredibly varied sound.

Tine Surel Lange

Interdisiplinary artist and composer

www.tinesurellange.com

After a successful run releasing her last record, “Midnight,” where Joy found herself on the 2019 first-round GRAMMY ballot, selling out shows at the iconic Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, and featured in renowned publications such as LA Weekly, Autumn eventually packed her bags and moved home to Olympia, WA during the pandemic, leaving her the space to rediscover herself and revisit her sound. Joy leans into a communion with nature and her roots on her new projects––a warm, introspective, and honest rainy-day bedroom-pop album, and a moody, ethereal cover album, honoring her local WA songwriting hero, the late Kurt Cobain.

Traditional stomp blues & rag time band from Italy.

Flavia Barbacetto - vocals, washboard
Stefano Ronchi - guitars, vocals, footdrums
Fabio Kid Bommarito - harp
Stefano Cabrera - cello
Pietro Martinelli - double bass

St. Mud Avenue rose in 2013 by guitarist Stefano Ronchi and harp player Fabio Kid Bommarito. The main intention was, and still is, to combine personal arrangements of classic blues tunes, with the traditional language of this old brilliant music. In 2014 the band turned into a very special quintet, where the traditional sounds of Mississippi (footdrums, resophonic guitars and harp) can speak the same ol' language with cello and double bass.

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