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Strata (formerly known as Downside) was a four-piece from Campbell, California. Strata released two independent EPs before their major-label debut. In 2001, under their previous name Downside, they released a 9 track disc entitled "Sleep," and in 2003 a 7 track disc under the Strata name entitled "Now the Industry is Outnumbered. Their Factories are Burning Down." In 2004 they released their self-entitled debut album on Wind-Up Records. The album featured on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, where it peaked at #41.[1] Their song "Piece By Piece" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie "The Punisher"[2], and the video...

Strata Institute was a name for what was essentially the M-Base All-Stars, an umbrella group that matched together many of the young players in the late '80s who were playing free funk SI's most notable members included Steve Coleman and Greg Osby. Strata Institute recorded Cipher Syntax in 1988 for JMT and Transmigration for DIW/Columbia in 1993. The other players on the first date were guitarist David Gilmore (not to be confused with the Pink Floyd guitarist), bassist Bob Hurst and either Tani Tabbal or Marvin "Smitty" Smith on drums, while the second outing had bassist Kenny Davis in Hurst's...

Pavel Stratan (b. 11 November 1970) is a Moldovan folk singer born in the village of Nişcani, Raionul Călăraşi, Moldova. In 1977, he played the guitar for the first time on stage, at school. In 1983, he wrote his first lyrics, while in 1996 he had his first real show-business experience as a sleight-of-hand artist. He graduated from the Academy of Music, Theatre and Plastic Arts in Chişinău, Moldova. In 2002, he launched his first album, Amintiri din copilărie (Memories of Childhood), in Moldova. In 2004, it was released in Romania, where it sold "like hotcakes" and where Stratan became...