Guy De Bièvre (BE) is a composer, musician, sound designer and sound art curator.Since the Eighties, Al Margolis has earned himself an international reputation as a vanguard for experimental music, running the indie cassette label Sound of Pig Music

Jonah Parzen-Johnson is a baritone saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. From the moment he put a saxophone together, in his hometown of Chicago, he found himself surrounded by musicians like Matana Roberts and AACM mainstay, Mwata Bowden, who were dedicated to finding an individual path to musical discovery.

Foljahn is part of the extended Sonic Youth family — a frequent collaborator with Steve Shelley, the original guitar player on Thurston Moore's Psychic Hearts, a member, with Moore, of Male Slut. He was Cat Power's first guitar player, too (through the first Matador album), and has played with Townes Van Zandt, Half Japanese and Boredoms. Jonathan Wood Vincent's songs straddle the borders between improvisation and composition, control and chaos, sentimentality and thaumaturgical esotericism. The Joseph Smith of Mars, imagine Scott Walker as a Goth Liberace.

Ed Askew is a painter and songwriter who has garnered a close following by virtue of his legendary tiple album from 1968 on the infamous ESP-Disc label, "Ask the Unicorn." Trummors is a duo formed by Anne Cunningham, a songwriter and Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature, and David Lerner, formerly of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Using primarily acoustic instruments, Trummors harken back to the warm sounds of close-harmony duos, country-rock, and seventies pop, while also incorporating elements of psychedelic folk including harmonium drones and finger style guitar.

Tom Brosseau is a folksinger and songwriter from North Dakota. He comes from a working family with a musical background, though none have received formal training. His grandmother Lillian Uglem taught him the acoustic guitar while he was in grade school.Liv Carrow's introspective, narrative folk songs draw from the rich history of the bardic template to weave poetic wordplay and reference together with captivating melodies, fingerstyle guitar playing and a clear, direct voice that can hush a chattering room