L’Avenir is the dark synth project of veteran electronic musician and sound artist Jason Sloan. Known throughout the space and ambient music scenes for his contemplative electronic soundscape work for close to two decades; Sloan founded L’Avenir in 2011 to explore his long time love of dark synth and minimal wave music created purely from analog and vintage equipment.

While releasing over a dozen solo solo electronic ambient albums and E.P.’s under his own name, Sloan has played solo all over the US, Canada and Europe including the influential Live Constructions radio program at Columbia University, STEIM in Amsterdam and Philadelphia’s The Gatherings concert series, one of the country’s oldest continuing ambient and electronic music series.

Sloan is a Professor and Chair of the Interactive Arts department along with being the founder and director of the Sound Art program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Whoarfrost is:
Jon Lipscomb - Guitar/Vocal
Tim Shaw - Bass
Ethan Snyder - Drums

Based in Baltimore, Whoarfrost follows their ears towards the unknown. A band not afraid to fail. Listen to the music and support if you love it !!!

Beth Brown (of Brune) is a draftswoman, composer, and experimental phonographer practicing in Baltimore, MD. 


The Expanding Man is the alias of CARLOS GUILLEN, guitarist, samplist, and sound designer working out of Baltimore, MD in the USA.

Jonathan Badger is a guitarist, composer and video artist.  He studied composition with Stephen Jaffe, Scott Lindroth and John Harbison at Duke University Graduate School of Music.  He also studied in Guitar Craft, a school founded and guided by Robert Fripp.  JB's work ranges from postrock sludge to neobaroque chamber music.  In live performance his compositions and improvisations show themselves in electronic garb, all the while maintaining the character of guitar music.  Often his performances include the use of a distinctly musicalized video projection system.  

PRESS

"This melancholic, mosaic record—the second from Baltimore-based aural alchemist Jonathan Badger . . . shuffles nimbly between extremes of darkness and light the way an Olympic figure skater transitions from twirls and spins to Lutzes and axles, a suite of fluid, involving instrumentals that draws from disparate genres to arrive at a sort of post-ambient survey course."
Raymond Cummings, Baltimore City Paper


"One of the draws of 'Unsung Stories' [is] the way Badger manages to maintain the structural familiarity of ... rock, while crashing it at speed into the forward-thinking subversion of a compositional approach unfettered by convention.
     Throughout the disc, Badger uses that subversion to unseat the comfort we take in a melody by twisting and roughening it. It makes us stop listening passively and start looking actively at what’s being done so that we can try to understand."

John Shanahan, Hypnagogue

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