Insect Trainers are a gamelan-inflected dream folk duo based in London, UK.

Insect Trainers is a duo formed of two composers, instrumentalists and song writers, Victoria Major and Nick Gray. We use two Balinese gendér wayang gamelan instruments along with guitar, violin, keyboards and vocals to create a web of urban dream folk with postminimalist, surrealist tendencies. With a name conjured from a phrase in a Chloe Aridjis novel, Insect Trainers invites you to worlds of magic animals, sonic vibrations and Swedenborgian correspondences.

Gendér wayang is the name given to a small group of bronze metallophones used in Bali to accompany shadow puppet plays and ceremonies.

Improbable global folk fusion between South America, North Africa, Western Europe and the Baltics and Nordics.

Cardiff University Music Graduate
Guitarist, Composer, Ethnomusicologist
Performer of Classical, Worship and non-Western Music

Experimental | Classical | Free Improv | Folk
~ Voice & Violin ~
always looking to collaborate

Cerddor, cyfansoddwr, arlunydd, a digrifwr (ar adegau) o Fetws-y-coed, sydd bellach yn byw ym Machynlleth yw Liam Rickard a.k.a. Worldwide Welshman.
Mae'r WWW yn perfformio gyda band dychmygol neu gyda band go iawn. Gyda'i chymysgedd amlieithog o tragi-comic parti-bangars ac eiliadau o melancoli, mae WWW a'i griw (o dan nifer i enwau gwahanol) wedi bod yn difyrru gynulleidfaoedd ar draws Ewrop a thu hwnt ers tua 2007

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Liam Rickard (Worldwide Welshman) is a singer-songwriter, folk-singer, artist and occasional comedian from Betws-y-Coed, now based in Machynlleth. WWW often performs with a band. When they're not available, he performs with an imaginary band. WWW and his friends (under various guises) have been performing their multi-lingual mix of tragic-comic party anthems and folk-pop ballads across Europe and beyond since about 2007.

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