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Corpus Callosum is finely-crafted songs and obsessively-arranged music, paired with experimental puppetry, installation and performance-art. Self-produced with a DIY spirit, but a professional ethic, this ensemble manufactures wonderment with quality musicianship and understated magicianship. A Corpus Callosum show starts small: an accordionist approaches the stage alone. He squeezes a slow chantey from the yawning bellows of his accordion. He sings. One by one his band mates emerge from the crowd. Each member of Corpus Callosum carries a worn brown suitcase. The lilting solo ballad effloresces into full orchestration as the performers divest their suitcases of the instruments therein concealed. Accordion...

The Giallos Flame aka Ron Graham follows in the footsteps of artists who made their names scoring images of lurching zombies, violent murders and frantic chase scenes. The movies of Argento, Fulci and Romero were all greatly enhanced by the compositions of Fabio Frizzi, Goblin and Ennio Morricone, and it is clear that these soundtracks left their mark on Graham. Built of a foundation of rock solid drums and heavy synthesizer abuse, The Giallos Flame became a creative outlet for the funk fuelled psychedelic nightmares of the multi-instrumentalist, and as word of his productions spread, he was approached by Baphomet...