New York-based producer, composer and sound artist Nick Zanca has been releasing music under the name Mister Lies since 2012. The project began in a Chicago dorm room with the release of a four-track EP, Hidden Neighbors – over the years, his music has inhabited a specific intersection between intimacy and atmosphere in a maximalist mosaic of field recordings, sample-based textures, glitchy synthetic soundscapes and nocturnal pop songs. Zanca currently lives in Queens and is a founding member of the band Quiet Friend.

UK, Malta, USA, Canada dates - autumn 2018

New album:
https://perhapsy.bandcamp.com/album/a-carpenters-market

Perhapsy is the solo project of musician/graphic-artist Derek Barber, guitarist and songwriter of Oakland-based groups Bells Atlas, Salami Rose Joe Louis' live band, and former contributor to Curls (Christopher Owens of Girls), Madeline Kenney, and Astronauts, etc.

A Carpenter's Market is the upcoming and fourth full-length release from Barber's project — out on cassette and digital platforms March 5th, 2021. The album features his most personal songs to date as well as his most texturally-experimental sounds. There are songs about slowly-splintering relationships, the difficulties of recollecting family history, the blurry line between religion and drugs, and how an experience where one grows up can influence where one ends up living. 

Barber, who's been an active illustrator and cartoonist, recently took up animation in the last year. His work includes animations for Salami Rose Joe Louis, NIIKA, Glockabelle, Yolanda, Moonrun, Chris Alarie, and Bells Atlas. The self-animated music video for A Carpenter's Market song "Lake Erie (Whispering)" is his most detailed and ambitious animation work to date. 

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Indie rock band from Essex/London in the UK. Specialist Subject Records. Our third album "Idealism" is out 18th July 2025. Music/tour dates/merch/more here: dontworryband.com

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