released May 3, 2020

AMY DENIO (Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame) is an award-winning composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist and singer behind 500+ works and has produced 50 recordings.
She operates Spoot Music, her recording studio/label and publishing company, creating music for theater, film, television and modern dance.
Co-founder of Tone Dogs, The (EC) Nudes/Pale Nudes, The Entropics and her all-women sax quartet The Tiptons, also works with the folk metal band Kultur Shock and has been playing with Abel Rocha and Madeleine Sosin in Correo Aereo/Ama Trio since 2003.
In "All Together Now", Denio set out to create a song using her special coded alphabet: Starting with a title, she then assigns tones for each letter, and bases her music composition on that information. In this case she also assigned particular instruments to each letter in ALLTOGETHERNOW (accordion/lamp on/lamp off/theremin/oats/guitar/electric bass/Eb saxophone/trampoline/heater/
rack/nuts/orzo/wood chipper).

TERMS are an instrumental experimental rock duo based out of St. Louis, MO and St. Petersburg, FL.
The project was formed in 2018 and features Christopher Trull (Grand Ulena, Yowie) on guitar and bass, and Danny Piechocki (Jitters) on drums.
Their debut LP 'Asbestos Mouth' will be released in Fall 2020, and "Great Silences Sweep Like Wind, Holding Inside Them Forces Of Destruction" is a QR-V/A exclusive track introducing you to the incredible sound of Terms beforehand.

GONZALO FUENTES is an outsider graphic artist, musician and producer. He's made the artwork for several albums in the USA, UK, Latin America and Japan.
He has illustrated Shawn Pesinger's music book Nobody Knows I'm Famous, and has produced compilations such as Frets Of Yore (2017), Chakra: Live & Unreleased (2019)
and Funny Smells (2020). His work as guitarist ranges from acoustic compositions to experimental and free improvisation. He is about to release his first solo recordings.
"Son Of Dota-Can" was recorded at home in Aoba, Yokohama, Japan, February 2020.

KLEISTWAHR is the solo project of Gary Mundy from Ramleh, Skullflower and also founder of the Broken Flag label. It originally existed in the 1980s as an electronic project and was revived in 2009 as an outlet for Gary’s solo electronic/noise/organ/guitar compositions. Kleistwahr have released 6 albums since 2014. Kleistwahr’s latest album "Winter" was released as part of the project "On Corrosion" released on the Helen Scarsdale label in 2019. The next album is completed and will be released in the second half of 2020.
"Fatigue States" was performed and recorded by Gary Mundy, 2020.

INÉS NAVARRO is a pedagogue from the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Her music is experimental, tending to noisy pop and sometimes to melodrama, based on surreal or inconsequential elements.
She have recorded more than 39 albums (in bands, in collaboration or solo) since 2001.
"Fabi Fobi" was recorded in a precarious home studio using a Yamaha PS 55 Keyboard, an ARP Odyssey Synthesizer, a sampled personal sound file for drums and a $4 electric guitar.

ESMECTATONS started as L. Borgia Rossetti's DIY avant-garde project in São Paulo, 1998. The group is known for their absurd, controversial and theatrical live performances.
The discography counts with more than 100 albums and soundtracks contrasting euphoric shapeshifting "zolo" sound with hopeless and depressive music, bending from everything as complex recording and jazz/prog songwriting to lo-fi free intuitive jams and harsh noise.
"Every Devastating Frame" is a cartoonesque nowave track recorded by L. Borgia Rossetti (guitar, sax, vocals, drums) and Bruno Leal (keyboard, synth, mastering at Zolo Caust studios).

JEAN-LOUIS COSTES is a French noise musician, performance artist and film actor. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin for his scatological and radical performances, and one of the first punk-DIY French artists, self-releasing dozens of tapes and CDs from the early 1980s to nowadays. His discography is surprisingly rich and outlandish, melding experimental, spoken word, electronics, sometimes hip-hop or metal, often parodying the French variety-song culture.
Costes appeared in controversial movies - including Irréversible (2002), wich he wrote a disappointment note about the same - and also published a variety of books, including collections of short stories, novels, comic-strips or photo-novels.
"Alone in My Basement" is his song about isolation in coronavirus time.

DJ TRISTEZZA (DJ Sadness) was born as a joke, to implement a fake radio broadcast in the 90s paired with another fake dj called Dj 'mpoittante (Important Dj), the sound radio series was called "Radio Cazzo" (Fuck Radio).
Over time the nickname was recovered to make Disk Jockey events and release a couple of demo CDs.
"Violetgirl" was recorded by DJ Tristezza

ELLIOT SHARP is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author. He leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies including fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors.
His collaborators have included Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cecil Taylor, Debbie Harry, Hubert Sumlin and Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt.
"‘IsoMusic Four-Two’ was performed "live" without any electronics on the Arches H-Line, an instrument I built last year as a tribute to Hans Reichel (the name is an anagram). Each set of strings has its own pickup and can be patched into any FX.”

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS is an avant-rock band led by artist Gregory Jacobsen and bassist Alex Perkolup (Cheer Accident). Using Jacobsen's grotesque paintings as a basis, they write theatrical suites that morph from of-kilter dance anthems to punishing and ridiculous prog.
Influenced by artists such as Fred Frith, Magma, The Residents and Captain Beefheart, Lovely Little Girls moves between No-Wave, Rock-in-Opposition prog, metal and free jazz. Initial simple musical motifs quickly deform into charges of odd harmony and tangled polyrhythms; yet it is grounded in a love for catchy melodies. Jacobsen's syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose adds to the absurdity with lyrics about over-ripe food, incompetent sex and undignified death.
"Shadow of Bees" was performed by Alex Perkolup (songwriting, bass), Gregory Jacobsen (words, vocals), L Wyatt (vocals), Mike Hagadorn (trombone), Jeff Goulet (guitar), Cory Bengtsen (baritone sax), Heath Chappell (drums)

KAWABATA MAKOTO is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band Acid Mothers Temple and has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in the late 1970s.He was part of one line-up of Gong when Acid Mothers Temple and Gong briefly fused into one group.
"Waiting For The New World" was engineered, mixed and performed by Kawabata Makoto (electronics, bowed guitar), recorded at Acid Mothers Temple, Apr. 2020

BRIX & THE EXTRICATED feature original Fall vixen Brix Smith-Start on guitar and vocals, powerhouse duo Steve Hanley on bass and brother Paul Hanley on drums (‘The greatest rhythm section in rock n roll’ – Luke Haines), Steve Trafford on guitar and vocals and virtuoso Jason Brown on guitar, this is a dream line up for lovers of The Fall sound.
They have released three albums since 2017, performed live sessions for fellow ex-Fall member Marc Riley's 6 Music show, played the Latitude and Rebellion festivals and completed several successful tours of the UK.
Their album art, advertising campaign and merchandise were designed by Rufus Dayglo (Tank Girl, 2000AD, Gorillaz, Judge Dredd, Ramones).
"Strange Times" is a sample of their latest work called Super Blood Wolf Moon, performed by Brix (vox), Jason Brown/Steve Trafford (guitars) and Steve Hanley (bass).