Having taken piano lessons at a young age and learning how to play the guitar as teenager, music has always been a great love to me.  Wanting to explore music further, I went on to study music at both Liverpool Community Arts College and Liverpool Hope University.  I graduated from Hope University in 2007 with a BA Combined in Music and Music Technology, gaining a 2.1.  
Today, I tend to write/record music as a hobby when the mood takes me.

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The sixth album from Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) Buoys, was co-produced and co-mixed by collaborator Rusty Santos in Lennox’s adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal. The album features Lennox’s bright, sincere voice along with his beatific approach to melodic structure and vocal phrasing, with miles of space surrounding it, a guitar and a few textured samples fleshing out the dubby sparseness and undercurrent of speaker-limit-pushing sub-bass low-end. Animated by their ongoing interest in contemporary music production techniques, it retains a deep layer of experimentation coursing through its hyper-modern production – a hallmark of Panda Bear releases that will feel intimately familiar to fans of Lennox’s decade-plus body of work.

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Douga is a band based in Manchester, formed by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Johnny Winbolt-Lewis. Douga have grown from wide-eyed, exploratory experimentalists to become a BBC 6 Music-featured act, who have now created a record gripped with a gentle but firm sense of cohesion and clarity. The group have built their album on the foundations of Johnny’s love of kosmische music, through rhythmic repetition and psychedelic drones.

"Douga serve up a mind-melting blend of traditional songwriting and endless, restless experimentation"
City Life

"There is an enigmatic beauty in the compositions Douga make with beautiful orchestrations which live and breathe alongside distortions and more aggressive arrangements"
http://stipe07.blogs.sapo.pt/douga-the-silent-well-510451

"Psych-flecked Americana from Manchester"
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-douga-partly

"Douga produce eerie atmospheric indie which exhibits a dreamy quality...[Mono No Aware] An utterly beautiful collection of songs from a frankly lovable band" http://barrygruff.wordpress.com

"Douga consistently reinvent themselves....perhaps the closest reference point I can give you here is that of Syd Arthur, who are similarly uncategorisable, and I mean that in a good way." 
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2017/12/11/douga-hidden-tapes-golden-tide-make-merge/

"Combining elements of Americana, psychedelia and an unmistakable tinge of Manchester grit, Douga go to great lengths to get their sound just right."
http://www.forfolkssake.com/news/36388/exclusive-album-stream-douga-hidden-tapes-and-the-golden-tide

"charming, chiming and occasionally unpredictable jams with clever lo-fi pop twists and understated arrangements."
http://www.thisistruluv.com/douga-kids-tomorrow/

"Nuanced, intelligent and ambitious"
http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=11204

"rich in sonic textures and psychedelic influences"
http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/music/the-silent-well-an-interview-with-douga/2014/06/30/

"the debut record by Douga is a minor scale gem. By turns gentle, languid, distorted, and psychedelic, The Silent Well will remind listeners of bands like Yo La Tengo, and feels like a trip into a haze of psych-rock bliss."
http://symbioticreviews.com/2014/07/17/symbiotic-recommends-10-albums-june-2014/

"Douga are a band for musicians and real music lovers. They’re no “flash in the pan” indie act with their debut feeling like a solid statement going forward. We look forward to hearing more from these guys."
http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/uk/2014/04/uk-artist-week-douga/

"The songs are brilliantly conceived, with pretty melodies and seductive chords, the rhythm section is as fine as any you’ll see and the beautiful washes of delayed noise and dreamy psych that bookend each song are the key ingredient that turn this band into the top-notch entertainers that they are. It’s aesthetically comparable to ‘A Storm In Heaven’-era Verve, but there’s something new here too. Go find em." 
http://dbhmusic.wordpress.com/page/2/

"It’s hard to say exactly what sort of music Douga make, and if this is not necessarily by design, it’s no real accident either. Former Plank! drummer Johnny Winbolt-Lewis has formed this foursome of like-minded experimentalists to explore his love of kosmiche music and sonic textures, with some intriguing results"
http://www.forfolkssake.com/song-of-the-day/28006/447-douga-blue-is-nothing

"Their melancholy and smouldering output seems to fit into the Neil Young territory, somewhere between After the Goldrush and before Like a Hurricane"
http://www.manchestermusic.co.uk/live/archivelive.asp?item=2144

Deradoorian’s new album 'Find The Sun' is out now on ANTI- Records. Purchase and stream at https://deradoorian.ffm.to/findthesun. 

Her first song collection, 2009’s Mind Raft EP elicited praise from Pitchfork for being “passionate and lovingly crafted.” The Fader hailed her “zen weed energy” and “moody dervish spirals.” Her debut LP, The Expanding Flower Planet reflects a remarkable creative journey.
 
Others imitate the past and others divine inspiration and transmit it elsewhere. Deradoorian embodies the latter idea, synthesizing faint hints of Alice Coltrane and Can, Terry Riley, and Dorothy Ashby. A new world springs from ancient traditions—with East Indian, Middle Eastern, traditional Japanese music and Native American rhythms aligned with Deradoorian’s singular orbit. The songs glide through a odyssey of self-exploration—glowing and warping, burning brightly and floating gracefully, permanently transcending.

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