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"COUM Transmissions was an transgressive performance art group, with inspiration stemming from Fluxus and the underground Mail Art scene, founded at the end of 1969 in Hull, U.K. by Neal Megson (soon to be known as Genesis P-Orridge) and "Jesus" Joheero. COUM expanded its members from 1970 to 1973 to include Cosey Fanni Tutti, Pinglewad, Spydee and Ray Harvey. During it's 10 year existence, the group featured a rotating cast of other members including Haydn Rob, Timothy Poston, Ian Evetts, The Very Reverend Lelli Maull, John Smith, Fizzy Paet, Foxtrot Echo and John Gunni Busck (a.k.a. John Lacey). In 1974...

Die 1972 in Thiés, Senegal geborene Coumba Gawlo gehört zu der neuen Generation des Mbalax. Ihre Karriere begann national mit dem Album "Seytane", 1990. Coumba nahm in Senegal weitere Alben auf, bis sie 1995 von dem französischen Künstler und Produzenten, Patrick Bruel, entdeckt wurde. Zusammen arbeiteten sie an der ungewöhnlich starken Stimme der Senegalesin, die ihre Karriere in Frankreich auf einem professionelleren Level fortsetzte. Mit dem Album "Yo Malé" (1998) gelang ihr der internationale Durchbruch, vor allem mit dem Remake des Miriam Makeba- Klassikers "Pata Pata". Sie singt auf Französisch oder in Wolof, der zweiten Sprache Senegals. Die Besonderheit ihrer...

Afel Bocoum (born 1955) is a musician from Mali, noted as a singer and guitarist. He began his career as a member of Ali Farka Toure's group ASCO, and Toure is often regarded as his mentor. Both men come from the town of Niafunke on the River Niger, and are members of the Sonrai people. Bocoum is an agricultural advisor by profession. His group, Alkibar (the name means 'messenger of the great river' in Sonrai) consists of two acoustic guitars, a njarka (a one-string fiddle), a njurkle (a kind of lute), calabash and djembe percussion, and two female singers as...

Wasteland Transmissions is a new journey by the man behind dark ambient project Svartsinn, Jan Roger Pettersen. Ideas has spun around for some time, but things finally took shape in early 2007. Being busy with Svartsinn has made sure WT have been a low priority so far, but glimpses of the project have been seen on two recent compilations. .