ULTRAPHAUNA is an intercontinental band of art-rock veterans playing the music of Timba Harris (violin, trumpet) and Dorothy Wave (vocals, synths).  Toby Driver (bass) and Joel Murray (drums) are featured on their debut album No No No No.  The band’s rich pedigree includes Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3, a.P.A.t.T., Kayo Dot, Extra Life, Gyan Riley, Grails, Tzadik Composer Series, and many more…

Daniel Mark Williams is/ are Daniel Mark Williams (singer/ songwriter of Inflatable Dead Horse), Jason Toth (drummer of The Handsome Family and AM Higgins), Bruno Almosnino (also Inflatable Dead Horse) on keys/ piano and Hannah Al Kharusy (Mostly Noise) on the cello.

The Invitation podcast is a 'little retreat' to help you hear and respond to the God's invitation to a deeper relationship with him. Each episode is a guided prayer and meditation led by Josh Banner, a certified spiritual director. 

Nadine Khouri is a musician & songwriter currently living in Marseille.  

Her album ‘The Salted Air’ was produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey) in his hometown Bristol. A haunting collection of poetic meditations, with influences in folk, dream-pop, film soundtracks & spoken-word poetry, the album was included among Rough Trade's Albums of the Year.

In 2018, Khouri self-produced & released a 'A New Dawn' EP, in between touring commitments, which included shows with Low, Aldous Harding, Josh T. Pearson & many more.  She recently contributed vocals to albums by songwriters Adrian Crowley and John Murry.  

Her latest album 'Another Life', also produced by John Parish, was released on Talitres in November 2022.

https://nadinekhouri.bandcamp.com

Musician and composer Nathaniel Braddock tours internationally and performs an array of different musical styles in venues as disparate as underground arts spaces and Lincoln Center.  Based for years in Chicago and Sydney, he has relocated to Cambridge, MA in 2016.l.

Nathaniel leads the acclaimed Central African soukous group the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, a collaboration between American, Ghanaian, Zambian, and Congolese musicians including the great Samba Mapangala.  Nathaniel has performed and recorded with a number of indie rock bands, including Jenny Gillespie, Tobin Summerfield’s gigantic band “Never Enough Hope”,  The Zincs (Thrill Jockey), Ancientgreeks (Flameshovel), and others. He also played for years in the Butcher Shop Quartet, performing electric guitar arrangements of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and other 20th centurty classical works.  Braddock leads an eight-piece electric guitar ensemble that plays his original compositions.  He has twice been featured in Guitar Player Magazine. Nathaniel teaches privately, at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and was head of the Chicago Waldorf School’s guitar program from 2005-12.   OTS classes include African Guitar Styles, Fingerpicking Around The World, Fingerboard Theory, and British Folk Revival.  He periodically offers more specialized fingerstyle guitar classes such as The Songs Of Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Davy Graham, John Fahey and Bert Jansch.  His ensembles include Reggae, Afropop, Instrumental Rock, and “Kill Yr Idols”–a survey of influential punk and underground rock. Nathaniel also teaches fingerstyle, theory, songwriting, jazz, classical, and rock guitar privately.  Braddock also offers workshops and masterclasses in Europe and N. America on African  popular guitar styles and is a guest lecturer at Northwestern University.  Braddock has co-presented workshops with Ghanaian Palm Wine guitarist Koo Nimo, and Tinariwen guitarist Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, and Malian sensation Sidi Toure. Other non-guitar musics that Nathaniel has studied include church bell music, Javanese and Balinese gamelan.  He has presented many new works for dance in collaboration with Khecari, Hedwig Dance and choreographer Asimina Chremos, and with Julie Atlas Muz at the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York. He is also the recipient of 2002, 2004, and 2005 CAAP grants from the City of Chicago to fund the development of new work, and a 2013 DCASE granting funding music research in Ghana, West Africa. - See more at: http://nathanielbraddock.com/bio/#sthash.PJyBE0ti.dpuf

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