Blood Lotus is the music project of Hannah Wu, who fuses club, experimental R&B, avant-pop, and traditional Chinese instruments to push the sonic parameters of genre. She constructs spectral worlds where the past and future collide in motion; intimate vocals flutter over shapeshifting beats, scaffolded by oscillating synths and glistening strings. 

With a focus on collaboration, she has worked closely with Kuya Neil, Ryan Fennis and Voidhood to produce her debut album, slated to be released with CONTENT.NET.AU in 2025. 

She also makes ambient music in collaboration with poet Panda Wong, under the moniker Lotus Threads.

Improvised, exploratory & otherwise out. Started in Naarm/Melbourne by a Tasmanian and now based back in the island state. Not a jazz label. Not afraid of contradiction.

Bill Stevens has been driven by a quote he attributes to Miles Davis, “I have to change”, but he will be the first to tell you that his music is embedded in a deep understanding of history brought to the present and beyond. He is always thinking about the process of creation, finding the new, pushing boundaries both in his playing and especially in his compositions where he has always looked to follow the voice inside of him toward his own spiritual path throughout a life in music. 

Although Bill’s current music is based in sound and color through electro-ambient sound settings that often utilize spoken word, fine art inspiration and field recordings, he also has a robust back catalog of straight ahead Jazz, modal Jazz in an ECM style with an emphasis on Impressionistic harmony and Romantic based melodies, free Jazz and avant-chromatic funk.

It has been a journey with many accomplishments (signed by iti Records, grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, conference speaker and guest performer in Norway and Australia to name a few), but there have been challenges on the path as well (years of overcoming a distinct fear of performing, a break from the exhaustion of maintaining a career in music that turned into a six year sabbatical to a debilitating almost career ending bout with bells palsey that affected his ability to play the trumpet. Bill refers to his sound on the horn today as a ‘fragile beauty’). But Bill’s middle class upbringing in Syracuse, NY taught him the value of hard work, that anything worth caring about as much as he cares about his music is worth fighting for. It was out of these trials that Bill began to commit toward sharing his love of music with a younger generation in the New York City public schools. Bill has worked to inspire and provide his students with creative experiences through his love of music, performance and composition.

Bill wants his fans to know how important they are to him. He always ends his newsletter by saying, “Thank you for being the most important part of my music”. For Bill this is not just a slogan, but his mantra. He genuinely cares about the lives of the people who listen to his music by often saying that his mission each time he performs or each time someone listens to his music at home is to transport them away from their daily grind, to have them momentarily forget about their job, issues at home, whatever the case may be to find a moment of relaxation and inner peace transforming them through instrumental abstract concepts as a fuel to empower and enlighten.

the donkey's tail is an experimental, abstract, free noise, improv, garage ensemble using electric guitars, drums, percussion teamed with banjo, triangle and trombone. the group was formed in early 2007 by abstract artist john nixon as a recording project. To date 45 studio cds have been released with nixon solo or in combination with 1 or 2 other members from the ensemble. A live cd of the toff in town gig in October as part of the you don’t have to call it music series has also been released. early in 2008 the group played at the palais theatre in the united artists show and in june a gig at the toff in the maximum arousal series. the group have played at horse bazzar, make it up club and the old bar, aswell as the national galley of victoria in the experimental music at the ngv series. The live group comprises 4 or 5 members. the ensemble is: john nixon, john bartley, ljiljana green, danny lacy, matt hinkley, warren taylor, emma nixon, daniel argyle, david palliser, sean bailey, simon stephenson, francis plagne, justin andrews, merryn lloyd, dylan martorell, maria vesterinen, victor meertens, patrick o'brien, wjm kok, laura delaney, irma koulouris, trent brown. john nixon with marco fusinato founded the noise band SOLVER in 1996 releasing various 7" records a full length cd and recently a 12" lp in 2006
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