Pastelpower is the pop-up electronic bedroom project of Cherie Ko, who is also the lead guitarist of fuzz-pop quintet Obedient Wives Club, and lead vocalist of noire-pop duo, TOMGIRL. Contrary to her guitar heroics in her bands, Cherie weaves off-kilter tales of quirky and eccentric characters from her cleverly crafted imaginary world, all on the keyboard and in pastel colours.

Touted by MTV Iggy as part of the "future sounds from across the globe", Pastelpower has released two EPs: Sparkling Eyes Demo (October 2014) and Pastelpower: Broadcast Live (December 2014) under her own label, Deer Island Records, and played various festivals (Baybeats, Verve Arts, and 100 Bands Festival) in Singapore, as well as regional shows in Thailand and Malaysia. 

After a good three-year run, Pastelpower made her swan song at the last leg of the Singapore: Inside Out exhibition with a full length album release titled Farewell Cruel World on December 2, 2015. Featuring a talented girl gang of musicians from various local bands, the finale performance was a spectacular blip and a culmination of the magic and glitter that made up Pastelpower and more.

While good byes are never easy, the story of Pastelpower is like a collection of life's magical moments - always fleeting and ephemeral, and there will always be beauty in letting go. Instead of losing oneself somewhere at the end of the story, perhaps this will be the prelude to the beginning of another one.

Alison's Halo was formed in Tempe, Arizona in the fall of 1992 by Catherine Cooper (vocals/guitar), Adam Cooper (guitar), Lynn Anderson (bass) and Alison (the band's battered drum machine). Within months of formation, the band burst onto the local scene by securing coveted slots with other like-minded national and international acts such as The Verve, Ultra Vivid Scene, Curve, The Boo Radleys, Stereophonics, Medicine, Half String, JImmy Eat World, Stereophonics, Lovesliescrushing, Bailter Space and many others. The next three years were spent fine-tuning their songs in front of ever-growing crowds. The desire for more propulsion and impact in their live shows led to the addition of Thomas Lancer on drums. Finally, feeling prepared to harness the volume, noise and feedback of their legendary live sets, the band entered their rehearsal room studio and emerged with material that would become their first single.

The Dozen/Calendar 7-inch was co-released by the band and Independent Project Records in early 1995 to wonderful national reviews and extensive college radio airplay. The single's beautiful blend of chiming guitar noise and Catherine's breathtaking melodies perked many an ear and fueled the overwhelming desire for the band to load up the van and head out for a successful string of west coast dates.

During the following years, the band went through a few personnel changes with David Rogers taking on bass duties while Roger Brogan manned the drums. With this "classic" lineup in place, the band appeared on numerous compilations, played countless shows and festivals (CMJ, SXSW, INTEL, etc.) and continued developing their own brand of noisy space-pop. For Eyedazzler, their debut CD release on Burnt Hair in 1998, the group carefully sifted through a mountain of various 2, 4, and 8-track porta-studio cassette recordings, to assemble a stunning collection of songs that properly traced the band’s growth in both songwriting and recording fidelity.

With the resurgence in atmospheric-driven music, Brooklyn's infamous Captured Tracks record label approached the band about reissuing the long out-of-print Eyedazzler album on vinyl. Alison’s Halo are currently recording new material that will appear on an EP later this year;  their first recordings in more than 15 years.

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