La Chimera | en

There are several bands called Chimera: 1) The oldest is a UK Acid Folk/Baroque Psychedelia group which recorded a self-titled album in 1969-70. Chimera were formed in the late 1960's by West Country girls Francesca Garnett and Lisa Bankoff. The line up of musicians supporting the girls often changed and among them featured artists such as Mal Luker (the Smoke), Bob Weston (Fleetwood Mac), Nick Mason/Rick Wright (the Pink Floyd) and Wil Malone (Orange Bicycle & later arranger for The Verve, Simple Minds, Massive Attack etc). Chimera were signed to Morgan Bluetown records and as so often happens with record...

Christian Rentschler began his music career in 1995 at the age of 14, when he founded his first performance group "Spirit of Dance“. The group consisted of five members. Christian wrote, choreographed, and performed the group's entire repertoire. He sang the lead vocals with another female member, while the other three complimented the dance and vocal numbers. Christian was also behind the business aspect of the group. He produced, recorded and marketed all of the groups material. In 1996, Christian was elected by the readers of Germanys No. 1 music magazine Bravo. Out of 60,000 applicants, Christian was among those...

Sabina Colonna Preti founded in 2001 the violin group La Chimera which, since first meeting with Eduardo Egüez and Quito Gato, immediately took a new form. While preserving its sound characteristic of the overall origin of violins, La Chimera became a group with a variable geometry made up of artists of international reputation. The focus of La Chimera concentrates on originals project creation where converge various forms of art with an intimate interest for the bonds that connect old world to the modern world. The first project of La Chimera, 'Buenos Aires Madrigal' was the subject of a recording CD...

Started by Benatos Thompson in 2007 as a change in sonic direction from his more IDM/Glitch endeavors, he began to play with elements of Dubstep and noise more and more in composition and focus on the the punk rock energy of live performances throughout 2008 to 2010 as a solo artist. Emily Steigerwald volunteered both expertise in images and sonics to help forge Cursed Chimera into a new decade of electronic mayhem by adding the intense VJ element lacking in past performances. A new two headed beast rises from bog and into the burning sun to cast its shadow over...