Conjure One, Jaren | ja

Conjure One is the label given to the creative outlet for Canadian producer Rhys Fulber, also member of the electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly and the ethnic electronica band Delerium. With a stylistic origin based in the genre of electronica, his songs usually range between downtempo, ambient and pop, also bearing strong influences from world music and Central Asian culture. It can also be observed to seek a fusion between the contrast of organic and electronic sounds, sometimes leaning more towards one direction than the other. Since the release of the eponymous debut album Conjure One in 2002, Conjure One...

Musical director Kip Hanrahan instigates some of the most visionary, funky, bluesy modern world music amalgams on record with Bad Mouth, alongside his sonic congregation, Conjure. He assembled the group in 1984 to set writer Ishmael Reed's poetry to music, on both a self-titled debut and a second outing, Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon (1983). Past members of Conjure include Bobby Womack, Eddie Harris, Don Pullen, Taj Majal, Olu Dara, Allen Toussaint, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Scott and Jack Bruce. Kip Hanrahan's biography: A producer, a composer, a percussionist and facilitator, Kip Hanrahan has an uncanny ability to assemble...

Upcoming producer and DJ Shawn Mitiska entered this world on January 28th, 1986. Throughout his life, Shawn has had a general love for sports, art, and music. Growing up, Shawn found his musical interests to be the likes of classic rock and early 90's pop. As the times changed, Shawn's musical interests progressed into the "electro rock" genre that included bands such as Orgy and Linkin Park. The beats and rhythms associated with the "electro rock" genre were the first electronica-related musical elements that would eventually lead to his love for dance music. Shawn then again shifted his musical focus...

Lejaren Hiller (b. February 23, 1924, New York City, d. January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) was an American composer who founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson. This was his fourth string quartet. He originally trained as a chemist, and worked as a research chemist for DuPont in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1947 to 1952. He developed the first reliable process for dyeing Orlon and coauthored a popular textbook. [1] He played piano, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone as...

JAREN hails from a small town in Wyoming where electric blue irises grow in vast fields under a big, windy sky. The beauty of this landscape can be heard in Jaren's emotive and powerful voice which dance music fans worldwide have heard on "Light The Skies" (Armada/ Baroque) and "Saved Again" (Somatic Sense). At the age of 16 Jaren got her start as a country/folk singer. While touring Sweden a few years later, she had the opportunity to write and work with the musical minds behind such major pop acts as Roxette, Ace of Base and Jill Johnson. This formative...