Tya 2 Studio Albums (2003 2007)

Dreams Of Marrakesh (2003). Join Kargo as they chart their travels through the captivating land of Morocco. Experience the night time delights as you find yourself in the heart of Marrakesh's world famous marketplace. Inspired by Moroccan music and culture, we discover a stunning album of traditional sounds and rhythms fused with modern styles and techniques. Guitars, Piano and Keyboards are masterfully backed by the authentic percussion of Djembe, Darbouka, Bongo and Hand Drums. The result is a 21st Century musical guide to this mystical and charming location..

One of Stereolab's many spin-offs and side projects, Monade (pronounced mon-ard) originally featured Laetitia Sadier and Pram's Rosie Cuckston. The duo began collaborating in the mid-'90s, and Sadier recorded the first Monade tracks in 1996 at Pram's studio, with Cuckston playing and also helping to engineer the session. Some of these tracks were released by Duophonic as the Sunrise Telling and Witch Hazel/Ode to a Keyring singles. Sadier continued to record at Stereolab's own studio without Cuckston, and one of these tracks, "Cache Cache," ended up as a B-side on Stereolab's Calimero single. In between her Stereolab duties, Sadier completed enough material for Monade's debut album, Socialisme Ou Barbarie: The Bedroom Recordings, which was released by Duophonic in Europe and by Drag City in the U.S. in spring 2003.

Bolt hail from Columbia/South Carolina consisting of two masterminds W. Heyward Sims (guitar) plus Geoff Maxey (bass) and were supported by drummer Bill Elliott. The music is instrumental, dominated by a skillful heavy guitar work demonstrating a bandwith from math/post rock and prog metal to a Robert Fripp alike style. The debut work, 'Circadian Rhythm' (2003) appearing as a raw and energetic album with more alternative rock and math influences. With the next effort, 'Movement And Detail' from 2006, the band managed to offer sophisticated grooving prog rock with edgy riffs and wide boundaries.

Prime Mover hails from Finland, but all the band members are Swedes. "Alias Drivkraft" (2004). Belonging to the Swedish minority in Finland, the musicians went on a voyage in search for their own musical identity, and started writing songs in their own native tongue. The music that evolved defies classification, making Prime Mover a true Progressive band since "Alias Drivkraft" (2004) pulls and fuses pieces of many different genres of music. Essentially, the music is a kind of jazzy Progressive folk-rock, spiced up with vintage flauvours…

Billy Talent (2003). Billy Talent takes its curious handle from a character name in the 1996 mock rockumentary Hard Core Logo, which traced the continuing adventures of an aging Vancouver punk band. The reference is probably more resonant in the Talent's home base of Toronto; everywhere else, it's a little awkward. Fortunately, the quartet's eponymous Atlantic release struggles mightily to make music matter more than moniker or stylized genre revivalism. Over a muscular, relentless, and viciously catchy 40 minutes, the band checks the wiry, melodic punk of the Buzzcocks while working Fugazi's dueling vocalist dynamic and searingly precise guitar breaks into its own three-minute anthems…

Following in the wake of Mostly Autumn, Karnataka aim to synthesise traditional Celtic music with melodic Progressive rock. Formed in the mid 90's, the original line-up of the Swansea based band included Rachel Jones (vocals), Ian Jones (bass), Jonathan Edwards (keyboards), Paul Davis (guitars) and Gavin Griffiths (drums), with Steve Simmons guesting on Saxophone. Their eponymous debut demonstrated the bands capability in creating romantic, melodic, Camelesque and Floydian soundscapes, laced throughout with strong folk and Celtic influences (enhanced through the use of flute)…

Colorado-based Thinking Plague explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic music meet. Thinking Plague has established itself as the logical successor to Henry Cow and Art Bears, bringing the Rock in Opposition style into the Nineties. As with all of the better RIO bands, Thinking Plague's music is both melodic and angular, containing equal measures of rock and jazz. Definitely on the cutting edge of the current progressive rock scene.
"History of Madness" presents a further maturation of the band’s sound. Its warm, organic sound is due in part to the inclusion of acoustic instruments in the mix, which is also interwoven with electronic sounds and samples…

Keeping their anonymity, Syrinx are comprised of four musicians playing acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and occasional flute. Syrinx normally is a nymph who works in the world of sound creation. As musicians, they are obviously influenced by all sort of music. The musical construction of Syrinx is called "Metamorphic Music" lending within a different texture to the complex arrangements. An excellent instrumental band between Priam and Taal, but more melodic.

US is a Dutch neo-prog band formed in 1998 by Jos Wernars (guitars) and Ernest Wernars (bass), but the musicians career dated back from 1978 when first incarnation of the band was named Saga, releasing one album and disappered in to oblivion. They reunite in 1998 and give the band name US, releasing first album in 2000. The second album from 2003 named "Eamon's Day" is a perfect neo-prog album. Everything is well done, elegant arrangements, brilliant vocal parts and above all the bass lines are very intristing. The voice of Stephan Christiaans is very smooth very good, with many jaw dropping moments and fits very well in the music they play. What is more intristing is that the bass is very predominant, sometimes is used like a prime instrument, with excellent chops and elegant interluding with the rest…

Ballroomquartet is a unique Belgian band with an exceptional sound and unusual instrumentation. The eccentric combination of classical and traditional instruments with electronics creates a dancy and dreamy atmosphere. On stage, they're always in for musical experimentation. Energy, virtuosity and sensitivity are the key words. It is a group that could easily be mistaken for a folkband: with a mandolin, accordion, violin and theremin the link sounds very clear. The interesting thing about ‘Soundmanifest’ however, the bands second album, is that these more traditional instruments are mixed with layers of fine electronica and over the top noise fragments (‘8 Minutes with Walter’). The mix between oriental oriented music influences and the folky Celtic touch end up in a exquisite bouillabaisse of sound.