less info:

http://www.sevensymphonies.com/xo/index.html

http://desibeli.net/juttu/649



alphabet::

a: assembly line people program ("subdivision of being"), antony & the johnsons, arcade fire,

adam green, at the drive-in, arab strap, alice sebold

b: bas jan ader, belle & sebastian ("tigermilk"), bright eyes, ben okri, broken social scene,

bruckner, boards of canada, broadcast

c: clinic, constellation records, chk chk chk, cocteau twins, caribou, the church, concretes

d: david lynch, devendra banhart ("oh me oh my.."), divine comedy, the dears, douglas adams,

duke spirit, domino records

e: echo is your love, elliott smith, echoboy, efterklang, ennio morricone, echo & the bunnymen,

empress

f: four tet ("everything ecstatic"), fugazi ("the argument"), fun

g: graham coxon ("the sky is too high"), graham greene

h: hope of the states

i: i am kloot ("twist/86 tvs"), interpol

j: josé gonzalez, joy division

k: kaizers orchestra, kafka (and situations involving, viz. bureaucracy)

l: low, life without buildings, laika

m: mogwai, m83 ("before the dawn heals us"), mikhail bulgakov, mother goose

n: the notwist

o: o samuli a

p: paul klee, pavement, pj harvey, paris motel, "pi" by darren aronofsky, portishead,

patrick wolf, placebo ("without you i'm nothing")

r: roy andersson ("sånger från andra våningen"), radiohead, rock action records, roald dahl,

red sparowes, richard hawley

s: sonic youth ("washing machine"), stars, sissy spacek, stereolab, shivers,

siouxie & the banshees, sappington, sufjan stevens, shadowplay, sebadoh, the sleepy jackson,

siniaalto, sparta, smashing pumpkins

t: tortoise, tied & tickled trio, t.s. eliot, teenage fanclub, thomas newman

u: ulver

v: velvet underground

w: william schaff, whiskey & apples records, wilco, whirlwind heat

x: xiu xiu

y: yann martel, young god records, yeah yeah yeahs



five boys and four girls 19-23 years - one year spent close knit in back rooms cars vans closed spaces stages bars restaurants and arguments. pushing minimalist pop / postrok on unsuspecting friends and strangers. doesn't rub well with conceited djs. combining as much as possible and trying hard to fit it into ten minutes a pop. bored with rules.