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Grammy award winning Hans-Martin Buff began his career as a recording engineer and music producer at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, USA, where he honed his studio chops by assisting on projects such as Live’s million seller Throwing Copper.

VLMV (pronounced ALMA) is a self-proclaimed ambient-ish post-something singer-songwriter, composer and producer from London. Formed in early 2015 and fronted by songwriter/producer Pete Lambrou, VLMV released their debut mini album via Fierce Panda Records in August 2015, receiving critical acclaim and described by Lauren Laverne (BBC6 Music) as “a beam of light through a dark, coldnight”, followed shortly after by ReWorkings & Remixes; a digital overhaul of the esteemed debut. In February 2018 VLMV released the follow up Stranded, Not Lost, again on Fierce Panda Records, and subsequently signed to the illustrious Erased Tapes Music Publishing.

Koa Ho is a Honolulu-born, Dallas-raised, and Brooklyn-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. As a sideman, he performs on bass and guitar with a diverse array of artists; in his solo output you’ll find him somewhere in between - on the baritone guitar attempting to glue together a diverse sonic collage of jazz and emo and folk and whatever else that someone with an attention deficit disorder might add to a longer multi-hyphenate buzzword list. His most recent project Now That I’m Older, I Don’t Look The Same (2023) explores the diffusion of identity, as marked by the passage of time.

An in-demand guitarist, composer, producer and educator, Stuart McCallum's current projects include the Breath (Real World Records), Solitude - a series of solo acoustic guitar albums (Edition Records) and Music for Imaginary Film - a series of cinematic-inspired albums co-written with Mark Slater. Stuart rose to prominence writing for and playing with the Cinematic Orchestra, on their Ma Fleur and Live at the Albert Hall albums, as well as on their award-winning Disney soundtrack, The Crimson Wing.

William J. Stokes is a British artist and producer. As a member of the avant-pop trio Voka Gentle he has made two critically acclaimed albums and has collaborated with the likes of Wayne Coyne from Flaming Lips, Panda Bear, Sonic Boom and more. Weaving a dialogue between the guitar and modular synthesiser, Stokes’ solo compositions and soundscapes are suspended between noise, ambience, melody, drone and rhythm...