Awkward rock

(The) Unbraggable Bad Guys on youtube and bandcamp

Thomas Butterfly   (band release)

Progressive Rock band from Porto Alegre, Brazil
Daniel Fontoura, Lauro Levandowski, Marcelo Xogum
Additional musicians: M.Wolff and Alexandre Godinho  

Divulging its unique progrock for 30 years, with 28 independent cd releases,
4 fully registered,
3 main players plus 28 featured musicians, over 30 videos, 4 radio hits, 
over 100 live presentations since ‘81.
These numbers may be modest in some points but meaningful in others.
They tell our band has welcomed many partners along the years.
They also show our numerous song production.
But most of all, the originality and variety of the songs can be noticed by those who hear them.
We invite you to explore this musical butterfly, with all its colors, 
bright and dark, soft and hard.
Thomas Butterfly is the name of a 13th century Scotish folk character
who was gifted with premonition powers by the underworld queen.

Recent bandsite:   www.thomasbutterfly.blogspot.com   (with links to songs)
History and bandsite:  www.thomasbutterflyband.blogspot.com    
(with links to songs)
Contact:  thomasbutterflyband@gmail.com

Leslie + Mikal = childlike//empress

Mikal - Percussion / production / guitar
Leslie - Synths / production /
instagram.com/leslielenchak
instagram.com/mikalnolan

Childlike//Empress (º2017, Wilkes-Barre, United States) are an avant-garde electronic duo composed of members Mikal Nolan & Leslie Lenchak. To put it simply, the two craft conceptual sonic artworks and performances. The pair accomplishes this by rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives; childlike//empress investigate the dynamics of musical landscapes (including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on the human assumptions of sound) rather than presenting a factual reality with their work. Ergo, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of the human imagination…

Childlike//Empress’ works establish a link between the rhythmic and tonal reality in the physical world juxtaposed with that imagined by those that listen. These works focus on not only concrete and mathematical questions that determine our very existence, but on the abstract and chaotic zeitgeist of the post 21st century. 

However, The conceptual sounds of their work directly respond to the surrounding environment and both Leslie and Mikal use everyday experiences from their lives as a starting point for inspiration. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context; but, by exploring the concept of music in a nostalgic way, childlike//empress creates with daily recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the listener is confronted with the conditioning of his or her own perception and has to reconsider their bias positions.

Leslie and Mikal want to make it very clear, that their work urges everyone to renegotiate conceptual art and music as being part of a reactive or - at times- autistic medium, often commenting on oppressing themes in our modern society.

progressive rock band (since '87)
thomas butterfly classics musicians: 
lauro levandowski, guitars
marcelo wolff,vocals,bass
daniel fontoura,drums ('89-'95, '01, '14-present)
romano duarte,drums ('02-'07) 
odir goulart,drums ('88-'89) 
marko,bass ('88-'90, '00-'01)
asdrubal llantada,bass ('91-'95)

more at:   www.soundcloud.com/thomas-butterfly-classic

Sun Z is high energy deep bass vocal breaks where old meets new and east meets west. Growing up mixing Florida breaks in the late '90s, he fell in love early with the raw power of breaks. His mixes move your heart, soul, and mind — the rhythm you live and die for.

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