Art rock musician singer songwriter from South London. GRICE has built his reputation since 2012 with his debut album Propeller which was shortlisted in the MPG Awards. The release of his second album Alexandrine  has rewarded him with critical acclaim in left field and progressive art rock circles, plus the opportunity to collaborate with instrumental and production luminaries such as Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North), Raphael Ravenscroft (Pink Floyd, Vangelis/Blade Runner), Hossam Ramzy (Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin), B J Cole (Elton John, Marc Bolan, Scott Walker) and more. His music has featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC 2, BBC Worldwide, MTV, Sky, BBC Introducing and digital radio stations all over UK, Europe and USA. His albums have received highly positive reviews from UK & European press including PROG magazine, The Musician, Eclipsed Rock Magazin, iOPages and more. His previous album Polarchoral (2022) was voted Best Album in the Indie Prog Awards (Friday Night Progressive, NY). GRICE has also won a number of international awards for his ‘one thousand birds symphony’ album and short film (2021).

Discography: 
Propeller (2012)
Alexandrine (2015)
Refractions EP (2016)
The Grey of Granite Stone  EP (2017)
All Angels (Live album, 2018)
One Thousand Birds (2019)
The Absent Forest (vol 1) (2020)
The Absent Forest (Vol. 2) (2020)
The Absent Forest (Vol. 3) (2020)
Propeller Inner Workings (2020)
one thousand birds symphony (2021)
POLARCHORAL (2022)
Mordant Lake (2024)

‘GRICE makes music of exquisite beauty - gorgeously epic’  BBC Radio 6 Music

'An artist of rare refinement' - PROG Magazine

Mordant Lake “A stoic, strong and embracing new album from GRICE. Mordant Lake is epic in its scope, teasing out universal humanity and making emotion catch in your throat.” - The PRSD

“A distinctive, highly personal album from an immaculate artist.” -  PROG ROGUE 

“Grice is one of those special artists who craft their work infused with passion, and this comes very highly recommended.” - Lazland 

“Your hand involuntarily goes to the PLAY button again” - MLWZ

“A profound voice from South London and a true fusion of eclectic musical influences.”- Involving Music

Even if you live under the proverbial rock, it’s probably still apparent to you that pop culture’s fixation with American country music has reached a fever pitch. It is important to mention this because, though Frederik Hauch and Samuel Hällkvist, the two players who comprise the duo Orbit Stern, have both nursed a longtime affinity for twang, one thing should be clear that Hauch and Hällkvist won’t tell you themselves, so allow me: It is not enough to say that Orbit Stern is one step ahead of the hordes of current bands sporting 1970s haircuts and country-music affectations. That’s because Orbit Stern stands a world apart from them. In fact, the music on Orbit Stern’s new album Ude i Skoven, Inde i Byen (which translates from Danish as “in the woods, out in the city”) sounds closer to something that came from Mars than our quaint renderings of Appalachia or the American west of popular myth. Likewise, the duo’s obvious attraction to analog keyboard textures yields a similarly alien sound that has nothing to do with the new-wave synth retrophilia now raging within indie rock and chillwave circles like some form of contagious flu. This is, perhaps, where jazz comes into the picture.

In Denmark, where Orbit Stern was formed (drummer/programmer Hauch is Danish, guitarist/programmer Hällkvist is Swedish but based in Copenhagen, and they apparently have little trouble communicating even though Hällkvist doesn’t speak Danish), jazz has never ceased to be music of right now. It was never put in mothballs in the attic of collective memory to be  hung on the museum wall for erudite academics to discuss ad nauseum. In Orbit Stern’s home country, jazz remains a vital, street-level form. Which partially explains why Hauch and Hällkvist have come up with a sound that is completely, invigoratingly fresh by grafting their jazz training to synthetic drum machine beats, old but futuristic-sounding keyboards, eerie tumbleweed atmospheres, proggish Frippertronics, and instrumental hooks reminiscent of Revolution By Night-era Blue Oyster Cult. If Little Steven and the international music press had you believing that Scandinavia’s consists entirely of fanatical garage-rock and black-metal purists, think again. Even amidst the richly fertile creative environment of Scandinavia’s experimental pop scene, Orbit Stern stands out as its own singularly exotic flavor, a shining light in a constellation of shining lights all coming up with new ways to break down musical boundaries.

Fittingly, Orbit Stern started when Hällkvist and Hauch got together to play shows with Swedish songwriter/sound artist Hans Appelqvist but then found themselves going in unforseen directions. On Ude i Skoven, Inde i Byen, the pair is doing with its influences what we as listeners should encourage all artists to do -- that is, to recontextualize them, to free them of all their social baggage. In order to make what the duo half-jokingly refers to “disco country,” it had to travel to a musical world that didn’t exist, which means it had to be invented along the way. Hällkvist and Hauch accomplished this by following sound rather than style. Which is what a musician is supposed to do, not play dress-up with mustache cuts and clothes that were in-fashion decades ago. You would never guess what Orbit Stern plays from the way that Hällkvist and Hauch dress -- or, actually, from the other bands they play in. Hällkvist leads his own (more or less) jazz group, Samuel Hällkvist Center, and also plays in a bunch of other forward-thinking groups that bastardize jazz and pop, including Isildurs Bane, Television Pickup, the Liberty Balance, and Variety Of Loud. Hauch is best known for his work in Danish indierock and pop acts such as Budam, Southern Gothic Tales and August, the Yes Wave, MOMO, and the Red Apples.

Of course, aspects of Hällkvist and Hauch’s individual styles can be heard across all of their work. But these are players who time and again demonstrate their hunger to try new things. As such, much like their other bands, you can loosely-but-not-quite categorize Orbit Stern under familiar handles like “experimental” or “instrumental” or “post-jazz” or whatever. But the need to do so goes out the window when you listen to Ude i Skoven, Inde i Byen. It’s not like Hauch and Hällkvist have made an especially challenging or difficult record either. There’s a whimsical ease here and hooks aplenty -- all the more impressive given that there’s no singing. But these guys once again continue to impress by putting fresh twists on things. Music magazines and NPR can’t seem to get enough of bands who repackage old things. But there’s nothing inherently imaginative about creating hybrid styles of music. When people do that without being truly creative, that stuff can sound like the musical equivalent of putting clothes on a mannequin -- all surface, no heart. Orbit Stern deserves to be heard above all of that. I included Ude i Skoven, Inde i Byen in my favorite albums of 2013, even though it isn’t actually out until 2014. That’s because I’m really excited about it. I suspect that anyone who appreciates music that is effortlessly original because its makers are tapped-into genuine inspiration will be excited too.

Saby Reyes-Kulkarni -- musician, music journalist (Paste, Alarm, Nashville Scene), host of Feedback Deficiency and Not Your Parents' Jazz Show (December 2013)

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Un percorso di sonorità dell'Est e del Nord: dalle danze israeliane al klezmer, la musica degli ebrei di lingua yiddish che hanno attraversato l'Europa, e quindi dalla troika russa fino alle danze scandinave, come le polske svedesi. Se da una parte il suono del clarinetto, della fisarmonica e del violino ci porta ad Est, tra le carovane degli zingari nomadi, dall'altra il suono glaciale delle nyckelharpe ci porta a Nord nelle foreste di abeti e nei piccoli visstuga dove gli spelmän intonano melodie antiche.

Vaganto è un quartetto bellunese che propone musiche per danze klezmer e danze scandinave, in esperanto "vaganto" significa "vagabondo" ed è proprio vagabondando, in un viaggio senza confini, che la musica delle tradizioni ha la capacità di trasportare musicisti, ascoltatori e ballerini.

Good Music - Good People - Good Vibes - Whole New Adventure!

Positive vibes are hard to hide.  Laine, who is based in Finland, serves up a dose of what he calls “urban world music” and then some. Global electronic sounds abound along with a slew of instruments and other musicians on Laine’s debut. Prog-rockers especially will enjoy the effort. Give it a try.

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Artis-led independent record label est. 2010. Genres: Art Rock, Experimental, Folk Noir with a distinctive British flavour. Home to GRICE and Siobhan McCrudden. Their distribution network includes Bandcamp, Burning Shed, Nikos Xilouris shop in Athens and all usual digital outlets via AWAL.

Artist Releases:

GRICE       www.gricemusic.co.uk
                                                                                                                                            Propeller (LP) 2012
Alexandrine (LP) 2015
Refractions (EP) 2016
The Grey of Granite Stone (EP) 2017
All Angels (Live album) 2018
One Thousand Birds (LP) 22 March 2019
The Absent Forest trilogy (Vol. 1, Vol 2, Vol 3) (2020)
propeller inner workings (2020)
one thousand birds symphony (2021)
POLARCHORAL (2022) Best Album 2023 Inde Prog Awards

Siobhan McCrudden
The Mermaid in Your Glass (Single) 2018
Following You (Single) 2018
Icarus Girl (album) 2018
The Sub Sessions (2023)
Following You (Live from The Sub sessions)
Iron Goddess (Live from The Sub sessions)

Rudemà è un trio folk della provincia di Belluno, formato da Fabio Reolon (chitarra e voce), Francesco Chiarini (violino e nyckelharpa) e Luca Ventimiglia (cornamuse, flauti dritti e traversi, melodica). 

Il gruppo, fondato nel 2009, propone uno spettacolo di world music con reinterpretazioni di brani tradizionali e composizioni proprie, spaziando dal bal folk francese all’Irish folk, passando per la musica tradizionale veneta e del Nord Italia. 

Nel 2011 esce il primo lavoro discografico del gruppo, A perdifiato nel bosco, seguito dal più recente Aquiloni, registrato e mixato da Dario Ravelli presso Suonovivo Studio di Bergamo e distribuito da Rox Records.
L’originale proposta musicale permette ai Rudemà - precedentemente noti con il nome Diaduit - di raccogliere negli anni importanti consensi e di vincere concorsi come Suonare a Folkest (2010), Trentino Girofolk (2014 e 2018)  e il premio Scuola di Musica Popolare nell'ambito del Premio Nazionale Folk & World (2017), indetto dai festival M.E.I. di Faenza, Li Ucci di Cutrofiano e Festival di Musica popolare di Forlimpopoli. Il trio, inoltre, vanta numerose esibizioni live in festival nazionali e internazionali, tra cui: Andanças, Celtica Valle d'Aosta, Folkest, Festival Internazionale della Zampogna, Isola Folk, Novaria, Musica Nelle Aie, Irlanda in Festa al Teatro Geox di Padova, Celtival, Dolomiti Senza Confini, Fiera d’Irlanda, Oltre le Vette, Arte Imperina, Druidia e Artigianato Vivo.

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