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Nigel Stanford is a New Zealand composer, best known for his soundtrack for the movie TimeScapes directed by Tom Lowe, as well as his music videos Cymatics and Automatica. Discography: Timescapes (2012) Solar Echoes (2014) Automatica (2017) .

As the title suggests, Deep Space is an album of compelling and expansive trance rhythms that take listener out to the farthest reaches of the universe. Created by twenty-five year old New Zealand sensation John Stanford, his stellar debut on White Cloud Records (11034) is a striking fusion of hypnotic beats and textured layers of music reflecting the great eternal dance of space. It's an exploration of the outer and inner worlds; a journey of the mind out to the farthest reaches of the infinite, and deep into the space of imagination. Despite its astronomic aims, Stanford modestly credits modern...

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (September 30, 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer. Stanford was born in Dublin, the only son of John Stanford, examiner in the Court of Chancery (Dublin) and clerk of the Crown, County Meath. Both parents were accomplished amateur musicians; his father sang bass and his mother was a pianist. Charles trained under R. M. Levey (violin), Miss Meeke, Mrs Joseph Robinson, Miss Flynn and Michael Quarry (piano); and Sir Robert Stewart taught him composition and organ. His precocious ability was recorded in an article in The Musical Times in December 1898. He came...

A supergroup formed in late 2012 by Joe Pernice (Pernice Brothers), Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Mike Belitsky, who has played drums for, among others, The Sadies and Neko Case . They are named after the Mendicant Friars, an order of Catholic monks who depend entirely upon charity for their livelihood. Their first release was the limited-edition six-song Australia 2013 E.P. It came out in February 2013 and contained three new songs, two instances of Joe and Norman covering themselves, and one INXS cover (This TIme). According to their manager Joyce Linehan, "Joe, Norman and Mike all live in...