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From their 2001 founding to the duo’s final shows (and subsequent hiatus) in 2008, Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson aka Yellow Swans carved an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore. During that time they released well over 50 recordings documenting studio experiments, live improvisations, and numerous collaborations. Together they relentlessly toured North America, Europe, and Oceania, performing at numerous international music festivals including Sonar (ES), Open Circuit (BE), and Sonic Protest (FR), and were invited to join Art Council England’s Free Noise Tour in 2007. After a 15 year break, they have returned to recording and performing. Their music continues to be restless, ragged, and forever in flux, untethered and unresolved.
Formed in 2022, Cheree is a 4-piece band from Oakland, CA. Their sound has often been described as intense, dark, harsh, and feedback-laden noise-rock with elements of industrial and drum machine-driven punk. Drawing influence from underground sounds of the last several decades and their contemporaries, Cheree attempts to embody a stark, yet emboldened perspective on the current state and woes of modern society and personal struggle.
"Noisy punk within an industrial sheen, Cheree's first EP consists of reeling feedback and distorted reverberated guitar stylings with desperate vocals that sound like they're being screamed from inside a haunted cell that's bigger on the inside than out." (Wuxtry Records, Athens, GA)
John Bischoff (b. 1949, San Francisco) has been active in the experimental music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 35 years as a composer, performer, and teacher. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis and the pioneering development of computer network music. He was a founding member of The League of Automatic Music Composers in 1978, the world’s first computer network band, with Jim Horton and Rich Gold. He is also a founding member of The Hub, a computer network band that has further developed the network music form since 1987. Recordings of Bischoff’s work are available on Artifact, 23Five, Tzadik, and Lovely Music. A solo CD titled "Audio Combine" was release by New World Records and was named Best of 2012 by The Wire magazine. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Mills College in Oakland, California.