THAT SUMMER is David Sanson's project (musical editor of the French monthly magazine MOUVEMENT - www.mouvement.net), and "Clear" is his third album, a dozen pastoral and urban pop-songs, melodic and melancholic, stripped down and subtle, influenced by artists such as Brian Eno and David Sylvian, as

iLiKETRAiNS met in the Northern Transport Hub of Leeds in the Spring of 2003. Windswept platforms provide the inspiration and a love of music that is progressively English and glacially Icelandic holds them together.

A musician, vocalist and songwriter, Shannon Wright is one of the revelations of the new folk scene of the USA. Her style is a sophisticate hybrid of rock and chamber music. But all her songs were born "from the pit of the gut"