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Il Volo is either a) a contemporary Italian vocal trio (biography below) b) an Italian prog-rock supergroup that released two albums in the 1970s, "Il Volo" (1974) & "Essere o non essere?" (1975) Il Volo (Italy, 2009). In May 2009, three fresh-faced teenagers, Piero Barone (23), Ignazio Boschetto (22), and Gianluca Ginoble (21), appeared on the popular Italian talent show “Ti Lascio Una Canzone” and dazzled television viewers with their flawless rendition of the Neapolitan standard “O Sole Mio.” The boys, who won the competition easily, decided their group needed a name. “Il Volo,” meaning “flight,” was chosen to signify...

Agnivolok is a dark folk side-project of Chaos As Shelter members which was formed by Vera Shapiro (from Jerusalem) and Vadim Gusis (from Rehovot) in 1998 in Jerusalem, Israel. Vocalist Vera plays guitar and writes the lyrics. Vadim plays various musical instruments and does the arrangements. Two other members of Agnivolok taking part in the recordings are Shurik Weits and Igor Krutogolov, an avant-garde musician leading his project Kruzenshtern & Parohod and also playing in the experimental dark ambient act Crossfishes. http://www.myspace.com/agnivolok .

Zavoloka is a stage name of Kateryna Zavoloka - Ukrainian sound artist, experimental electronic music composer, performer and graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine, currently based in Vienna, Austria. Zavoloka mainly explores digital and analogue synthesis and combines them with recorded herself Ukrainian ancient folk songs and different instruments. Her music consists of intensive varied sound motions and unexpected combinations piped into carefully controlled electronic flows. Zavoloka collaborates with: Kotra (UA), Mark Clifford of Seefeel (UK), Feldermelder (CH), AGF (DE), she was invited by Aphex Twin (UK) to support his audiovisual shows, frequently works and playing live with Laetitia Morais (PT)...

Dernière Volonté (French for "last will" or "last wish" before execution) is a project of French musician Geoffroy D. (assisted by Pierre Pi). Earlier work is seen as martial industrial, dark ambient or martial ambient, emphasising atmosphere, rhythm, and historical samples, rather than vocals and melody. Recent work, from "Les blessures de l'ombre" (2003), is typically seen as military pop, with verse-chorus song structures and pop melodies. Dernière Volonté is controversial for its considerable use of fascist imagery, style, and voice samples, and of themes from European fascism and the Second World War. The first album "Obéir et mourir" (1998...