Leyla Pınar | en

A Haitian-American who sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, Leyla McCalla plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Deeply influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk, her music is at once earthy, elegant, soulful and witty — it vibrates with three centuries of history, yet also feels strikingly fresh, distinctive and contemporary. Born in New York City to Haitian immigrant parents, and raised in suburban New Jersey (with a couple of teenage years spent in Accra, Ghana), Leyla experienced a renewed sense of connection with her Haitian heritage after moving to...

Pınar Aylin (b.12 May 1972, İzmir), Turkish singer. İzmir Private Turkish College then studied at the Ege University Faculty of Communication. After graduation, she made a television program channel in the Aegean. Then came the world of music came to Istanbul. Maxi singles so far released 6 albums and 1 maxi. .

Jasper Leyland is the alias of York, United Kingdom-based sound explorer Jonathan Brewster, whose work combines melodic drone structures with deft acoustic manipulations and splashes of field recordings. He moves between a variety of instrumental sources such as zither, chimes, melodica, acoustic and electric guitars, and accordian, applying subtle digital processing and layers of found sound to craft dense organic compositions. Born in 1984, his first forays into music making began in autumn 2004 with a sampler and effects, before investing in a laptop six months later and delving into the possibilities of computer processing. His debut EP Capsize came...