Soldiers of Allah | ru

Toy Soldiers is a rowdy, hard-working bunch who spent most of 2011 playing 120+ shows across the east coast and southern U.S. tearing through everything from tiny dive bars to festival stages to big theaters with a brand of soulful rock n' roll music that takes it's roots, puts it in a blender and pours out that good old feeling made for today. From it's beginnings as a duo started by Ron Gallo in Philadelphia in 2007, to it's era of fluctuating cast of players and it's eventual growth into a solid 5-piece band consisting of Gallo (lead vocals, guitar),...

Билл Кэллахан, также известный как Smog (Смог), американский исполнитель и автор песен, родившийся в Silver Spring, Maryland. Кэллахан начал работать в lo-fi жанре, и, оставаясь вполне неизвестным в широких кругах музыкантом, выпустил четыре магнитоальбома. Более позднее сотрудничество с лейблом Drag City, с которым оно продолжается и по сей день, принесло Биллу популярность. .

Faris Nourallah is now at his fourth solo album. After “I Love Faris”, “Problematico”, and the last acclaimed “King of Sweden”, the free-floating pop genius from Dallas is back in action with the brand new and exotically entitled "Il suo cuore di transistor" (“Her transistor heart”), this time on the Italian Awful Bliss imprint. As usual Faris is an inexhaustible mine of surprises, and a beacon from where melodies come easily and non-forced. His personal worlds of melody are painted beautifully on "Il suo cuore di transistor". Played, recorded and mixed all by himself in the inner depths of his...

Abdallah ag Oumbadougou (* um 1962 in Tchimoumouneme bei Agadez) ist ein nigrischer Musiker (Gitarre, Gesang). Er ist Angehöriger der Tuareg und kämpfte als Aktivist für die Rechte seines Volkes. Er gilt als einer der Väter des „Tuareg-Blues“, der Rock und Blues mit traditioneller Tuareg-Musik kombiniert. .

Deb was born and raised in the Boston area and can't remember a time when she didn't love to sing and dance to music. She always had her ear to the radio and stereo and was a regular participant in theater, choruses and choirs growing up. When she was eight years old, she had the unique opportunity to study at the Elma Lewis School for Black Cultural Arts in Roxbury, MA. She studied African American music and art and this opened her ears and heart to the sounds and rhythms of gospel and traditional spirituals. While attending college in Maine,...