Sweet Billy Pilgrim is Jana Carpenter and Tim Elsenburg. 

They’ve made five albums since 2004, including the Mercury Music Prize nominated Twice Born Men (released on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label in 2009), and 2012’s Crown & Treaty (“A stone masterpiece” ***** Mojo Magazine), and their sixth, Somapolis, is due at some point late in 2022.

Somapolis is either a musical map of an imagined city or an X-ray of a broken heart, or both.

They’ve created their work in two garden sheds, one bothy, a small attic and a bedroom.

Baptised in a torrent of renegade frequency, Persona Non Gratis exploded out of West London at the beginning of the 90’s. As the first wave of electronic hardware booted the doors of possibility off the hinges, he and his partner formed Persons Unknown, one of the most influential live acts at the genesis of the rave scene. As warehouses and festivals throbbed to a euphoric new groove, Persons Unknown pushed the envelope of live, improvised performance, blazing a trail into the mesmerising new world of jamming hardware.

Triggering wave after wave of sonic electricity at Spiral Tribe and Bedlam parties, Persona Non Gratis played a key role in Spiral Tribe’s musical development and influenced a whole new generation of musicians as he burned memory after memory into the cold steel of post industrial London
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Raw, volatile and shot through with the timeless warmth of pure soul, Person Non Gratis is bang on the case to this day, throwing up tune after tune and liveset after liveset from his West London bunker. A true pioneer, a true original and a true innovator - keep it locked....

Recordings Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger.
For the upcoming UK play see:
http://cosmictriggerplay.com/tickets/

This is my songwriting showcase. Most of these songs are entirely written by me: where there is a co-writer, he or she is named in the track info. 

Introduction

Triangulators are a loose limbed, multi-personed band, who gather together for the purpose of creating and performing music to provide platform & embellishment for the words of poet and lyricist Felix Rey. .  Felix is a very curious chap and has spent more time than is good for him thinking about the question 'What is going on around here?', having not yet been able to discover a satisfactory answer to this question Felix channels his frustration into the creation of poetic meditations on existence.  Sometimes these get pretty feisty.  The music created by Triangulators is lively and sensitive, drawing on hip hop, sixties counterculture and rock'n'roll for inspiration, and the shows are wilfully entertaining, subversive and provocative.

Bio

Triangulators formed in the basement of the old Bridewell Island Police Station in the summer some years ago.  As we remember it, there was some kind of Invisible Circus there, creating other worlds behind a set of apparently impenetrable blue gates.  We wrote a musical story about our time in the Police Station with the Invisible Circus, and we called it 'Open Up The Gates', it is an at least partially true account of a meeting with an old poet tramp who used to wander the streets of Bristol, offering his poetry to anyone who would take the time to listen.  Perhaps he still walks the Bristol streets? He is certainly alive and well in our strange hip hop fairytale, leading our intially lost protagonist on a weird and wonderful journey, through altered states and realms, towards a different way of being in the world.

The full 'Open Up the Gates'album was released in 2013.  This marked the end of a three year journey for the Triangulators.  Which saw us grace stages at many wonderful and strange events.  Our first gig was at one of the legendary Carny-Ville events, a theatrical otherworld of circus, burlesque and bawdy pantomime. We played in the occupied London Old Street Magistrates Court and Bank of Ideas, accompanying our Ring-Master friend on forays into the unknown, and a front-side seats in the rebellion.  We played in the hold of an old East German Merchant ship following a Brazilian Carnival drum band, and travelled with the Wandering Word yurt to the riotous Bommtown Fair and Shambala Festivals.

In 2014, the Triangulators had a rest. Frontman and lyricist, Felix Rey,  retreated to the hills for a few months, to do some writing and created a set of poems, collectively titled 'Beyond the Gates: Universal Trancsendentalist'.  In July we performed a live set of these poems at the 'Old England' pub in Bristol, with a new Triangulators line up (having previously only numbered 3, through a combination of circumstances, and a liking for parameters, Triangulators are now numerous in number, and equally numinous by nature).  This set was very well receievd by our friends, and a provident meeting with Dug Wolfsohn of Omniphonic Records, led to us recording at the Omniphonic Studios in Wiltshire. The result of this recording is the new 'Beyond the Gates' album, which is going to be released in September this year.  It is a strange, disturbing and funny collection of poems spoken over fat beats and basslines, superbly played and imaginatively delivered.

Reviews
 
"Can we look with a smiling eye at injustice and unfairness in society?  Is it possible to clearly see what’s wrong in it’s myriad of ways, and not be gripped in fear or paralysed into inaction?  Can we see the human comedy in our lives, and a way to a better future where we see the divinity in ourselves, and respect each other as kings and queens?  

Felix Rey’s poetry taps directly into the human condition.  He tells the truth in a way that cuts through the media bullshit and resonates in our hearts.  But when he turns it into music with Triangulators it becomes joyful and exuberant, a celebration of life – and eminently danceable.  How does that happen?

Maybe we have to see ourselves as we really are, to unmask the deceptions and defrock the demigods, and then it’s easy to move on.  Felix’s first album with Triangulators is a shamanic switchback, tribal storytellng of a journey through a dark city’s Concrete Streets, through gain and loss, chance encounter with an old man to loss and redemption – Lift Up, Stardust, Together.

His new material goes to the next level.  The poetry goes deeper and darker, but injustice is mocked by prankster musicians who turn our twisted society into comic theatre.  And it works – I found myself grinning with delight as our demons are debunked.  Again, very danceable, as the evening shifted from serous acoustic, through comic hip-hop and the dancing becomes general." - David Saunders

"The Triangulators are one of my favourite Bristol acts, and in a rich music landscape that's saying something. Their musicianship and togetherness as a band are great, but what makes their shows for me is the bravery, humour and rawness of Felix Rey's lyrics and delivery. His lyrics deal with the big stuff like mental and spiritual isolation, impending apocalypse and the pains and pleasures of striving for truth and oneness in a world that's hatefully afraid of both. That sounds kind of doomy and portentous, but channelled through Felix's amused, bemused and beaming stage presence it just seems like good sense, and cathartically funny." - Naomi Smyth

Lund Quartet are an instrumental band from Bristol. Five years in the making,their unique approach to music blends the space of the Scandinavian Jazz scene with the creative opportunities of subtle turntablism. These highly skilled players seek a careful balance between precision and improvisation, combining the power of a jazz piano trio with the solo recordings of specially recorded performances of local musicians, both straight and scratched.

Lund Quartet consist of the self-taught Simon Adcock on piano and theremin, hip hop producer Jake Wittlin on turntable, and the dub, ska and drum ‘n’ bass influenced Rob Childs and Sam Muscat on double bass and drums. In 2010, they decided to dedicate themselves to the Lund Quartet by renting out an industrial unit in a car mechanic’s yard and building their own studio, with materials and equipment scavenged from skips and willing friends. This ability to build from the most diverse of sources is at the heart of the Lund Quartet manifesto.

At ease with technology, their compositions often form around the recording of a hypnotic groove, then inviting someone to play over it. This is then chopped up, sampled and replayed through the turntable. Check out a beautifully filmed live version of ‘Sequoia’ on YouTube to see this almost effortless process at work. A rhythmic pulse of the double bass. A train-trackdrum pattern and an emotional sweep of piano keys. Then along come the gloriously plaintive Afro horns, distorted and scratched.

Already making radio waves from Gilles Peterson on Radio 1 to Radio 3’s Late Junction, Lund Quartet are taking their sound to a wider world of jazz, hip hop and electronica. In a dark corner of your soul it might even provoke a feeling of resentment that here is a band that’s just making it look all too easy.

The album is available as a CD and digital download. For more information, including live videos of the band in the studio see www.lundquartet.com

Formed in West London, Ex Libras is all about building and shattering... sonically speaking.

Tight beats, loose melodies, and dirty noises.

3LX

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