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Artist profile: Jan Koekepan

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Jan Koekepan promotional photo

Jan Koekepan is a Pacific Northwest musician and composer. His musical roots lie in the rich soil of classical guitar, but he was inspired to grow in the alien light of Kosmische Musik by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis. Today he plays an elaborate array of devices that combine to form a symphony of timbral layers, a cloud that floats between Cosmic Music and Space Ambient.

Personnel:

  • Jan Koekepan — Electronic devices

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Artist profile: Jack o’ the Clock

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Jack o’ the Clock promotional photo

Oakland’s Jack o’ the Clock “conjures up stirring visions of a hybrid American history, part fact, part poetry, part visionary hallucination…” (Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector, UK). The quintet has been developing its subtle, acoustic avant-rock on stage and in the studio for nearly a decade, and has released five critically-acclaimed original albums as well as an EP of radically-reinvented cover songs. Fred Frith describes them as “one of the most original and compelling groups I know playing some amazing compositions that seem to tread effortlessly between Van Dyke Parks and folk music from an as yet unidentified culture, while making all the things you’ve always thought of as difficult sound as effortless and natural as breathing.”

Personnel:

  • Damon Waitkus — Vocals, guitar, hammer dulcimer
  • Emily Packard — Violin, melodica, psaltery
  • Jordan Glenn — Drums, accordion
  • Jason Hoopes — Bass, vocals
  • Kate McLoughlin — Bassoon, vocals, flute

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Artist profile: Ibex

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Ibex promotional photo

Coming together from the Seattle Eastside, the Snoqualmie Valley, and Spokane, Ibex formed in Bellingham, WA in 2013. Members Carly Gilliland, Darin McQuestin, Shiloh Smythe, and Loren White had been making music together in various permutations since they were teenagers, but began writing and performing regularly while in college.

Drawing influence from jazz to classical to indigenous music from around the globe, Ibex works from a heavy foundation of prog-rock. They share a mutual admiration for pioneers like King Crimson, Soft Machine, and Yes, as well as many other more recent artists from both the underground and pop music.

Personnel:

  • Shiloh Smythe — Drums
  • Carly Gilliland — Violin
  • Darin McQuestin — Guitar
  • Loren White — Bass, saz

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Artist profile: Human Ottoman

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Human Ottoman promotional photo

Human Ottoman is a power trio like no other power trio you’ve heard before!

The band consists of Susan Lucia (drums), Julian Kosanovic (cello), and Grayson Fiske (vibraphone). After meeting in Oregon as music school misfits, they joined forces, quickly creating a repertoire of raucous, rhythmically dynamic music which combined their enthusiasm for music of all cultures with classical backgrounds and modern genre-mashing-jazz sensibilities, characterized most of all by their unique instrumentation. Their first album, aptly named Power Baby, was independently released in 2014, and received an Independent Music Award in the “Instrumental” category. Their second full length record, Farang, was released in August, 2015. Since then, they have been actively ear-pillaging up and down the West Coast. From brain-crashing cello solos and atomic vibraphone drops to drum solos that scholars are still struggling to understand, Human Ottoman is bringing polyrhythmic rock to the masses.

Personnel:

  • Susan Lucia — Drums
  • Julian Kosanovic — Cello
  • Grayson Fiske — Vibraphone

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Artist profile: Fraktal Phantom

Fraktal Phantom promotional photo
Fraktal Phantom promotional photo

Fraktal Phantom is a Seattle area trio presenting a hard-hitting flavor of psychedelic rock. Drummer Jack Gold-Molina and bassist Cary Kindberg are also in the band Spectral Waves.

Personnel:

  • Jack Gold-Molina — Drums
  • Cary Kindberg — Bass, vocals
  • Sean Fisher — Guitar

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