CATE KENNAN - Los Angeles keyboardist/guitarist/bassist whose debut album The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams offers 12 concise episodes of a sonic reverie that buffer you from the world’s horrors with utmost subtlety.
The press release from Kennan’s Post Present Medium label compares her music to that of refined synth masters like Cluster and Harmonia’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band’s Malcolm Cecil, and the English eccentrics in Deux Filles. That’s sort of accurate, but more strongly present are serene yet slightly melancholy moods reminiscent of Boards of Canada and Mort Garson circa Plantasia.
SPIRITUAL EXIT - Aaron Davis aka spiritual Exit has been performing experimental music in the PNW since 1998 under many aliases, Acre being the longest running. He has spent many years performing and touring in bands with members of Wolves In The Throne Room, Gowns, The Mae shi, EMA, Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live, and many others much more obscure.
STERILE GARDEN - Is the alias of recent transplant, accomplished music journalist Jacob Deraadt.