Born in Vienna, Soumez has been touring the USA, UK and the African Continent as well as a numerous European countries as a DJ since the late 1990s. The musical influences from his travels shape his unique style, which is characterized by a seamless fusion of diverse musical styles. Soumez is driven by the fascination of opposites: both his productions and his DJ sets always combine the bitter with the sweet and the brute with the smooth. What emerges is the exciting new, the gripping and the hypnotic.

Ian Williams started out in the 1980s as a founder of Beautiful Pea Green Boat, whose ethereal, atmospheric sound pre-dated the current vogue for dream pop. More recently, he has released the solo, piano-based album, The Dream Extortionists, and a soundtrack for the French documentary film, Les Blessures Invisibles (Invisible Wounds).

Working with singer Claudia Barton as Gamine, he has released two albums of dark, piano-led torch songs and lullabies, and also collaborated with Lebanese choreographer Joumana Mourad's dance company, Ijad, during which time he produced music for several productions, developing a hybrid Arabic / classical / techno / ambient style.

His new album is All Becomes Desert:
 
"This is a series of (mostly) analogue improvisations, done a while back on my old Roland Juno 106 and recorded straight onto DAT (historical note - Digital Audio Tape, popular in the 1990s), then transferred onto a modern setup for processing and mixing. 

It is an album which uses processed minimalist ambiences and warm analogue soundscapes to evoke the wide-open, empty spaces of the great deserts and their hostility to human interference."
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