Haiku Salut - Glockelbar

Artist: Haiku Salut
Track: Glockelbar
Album: Tricolore (2013)

Haiku Salut is an instrumental trio from the Derbyshire Dales in England, who fuse elements of neoclassical, folktronica, post rock, folk, and electronica. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums, and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as "loopery and laptopery".

The group formed in 2010, and their debut EP, “How We Got Along After the Yarn Bomb” (2011), was released on Team Strike Force records, with their debut album "Tricolore" (2013) released on How Does It Feel To Be Loved? Grab their music and more on Bandcamp, and stay up to date on Facebook.

Haiku Salut never speak onstage, and refer to themselves as "three mute girls".

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Requiem For The Static King Part 1

Artist: A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Track: Requiem For The Static King Part 1
Album: A Winged Victory For The Sullen (2011)

A Winged Victory for the Sullen are a neo-classical/ambient collective comprising L.A. composer Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid.

50% of A Winged Victory For The Sullen are on Twitter as @DustinOHalloran

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Minuet For A Cheap Piano Number Two

Artist: A Winged Victory For The Sullen 
Track: Minuet For A Cheap Piano Number Two
Album: A Winged Victory For The Sullen (2011)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran.

Buy the album from Erased Tapes here, of from Amazon here.

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Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið

Artist: Ólafur Arnalds
Track: Ljósið
Album: Found Songs (2009)

Ólafur Arnalds is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and edgy beats crossing-over from classical to pop. Arnalds was a drummer of hardcore/metal bands Fighting Shit and Celestine, as well as others.

In April 2009, Arnalds composed and released a track daily for seven days, instantly making each track available within 24 hours from foundsongs.erasedtapes.com. The collection of tracks was entitled Found Songs.



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Aesthesys - Sailing to Byzantium

Artist: Aesthesys
Track: Sailing to Byzantium
Album: Crossing The Shoreline (2010)

Aesthesys is a project of russian musician Nickholas Koniwzski (also participates in post-rock Курс Кая), founded in 2007. The music can be described as instrumental post-rock with ambient and neoclassical influences. The name is derived from the abbreviation AESTHE (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything) and it looks like misspelled word ‘aesthetic’.

A 5-album discography is available to download for free on the Aesthesys website, which is well worth getting.

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