BIG ‡ BRAVE - CA | Thrill Jockey
http://www.bigbrave.ca
Genre: Otherworldly Drone Doom Ritual
FFO: Björk, Beth Gibbons, Earth, SUNNO)))

BIG ‡ BRAVE, the elemental ensemble of guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie, guitarist Mathieu Ball, and drummer Tasy Hudson, harness an earthen heaviness composed of distorted and textural drones, austere bombast, and Wattie’s heart-rending voice.
Like recent collaborators The Body, BIG ‡ BRAVE is at the forefront of reconfiguring the landscape of heavy music. The trio brandish sparseness and density like weapons, cast tense atmospheres with languid tempos and mutate feedback into eruptions of enveloping tempests.
"Nature morte" sharpens BIG ‡ BRAVE’s ferocity and expansive sound into emotional elegies for the disenfranchised, wringing abstracted textures and pure fervence into songs of unfathomable mass. “Nature Morte”, the new album by Big ‡ Brave, was released via Thrill Jockey on February 24th, 2023.

MJ Guider - USA
https://mjguider.bandcamp.com/
Genre: Ambient Experimental Drone

Melissa Guion aka MJ Guider is a musician / producer / multimedia artist in and from New Orleans, LA, USA.

Tavare - Berlin
http://tavare.bandcamp.com
Genre: Slowcore
FFO: Nadja, Hypnodrome Ensemble, Bohren & the Club of Gore

Tavare is a recently formed Berlin trio playing stripped-down dirge-pop, embracing a sound that harkens back to '90s slowcore and shoegaze while still looking forward to contemporary forms of minimal pop music. The band consists of Aidan Baker, originally from Canada but based in Berlin for over a decade, who makes guitar-based music ranging from ambient/experimental to post-rock to drone-jazz, both solo and with various groups, mostly notably the dreamsludge duo Nadja; Tristen Bakker, also from Canada, makes soft-noise, prog, ambient and punk music as a solo artist and with groups such as VROUW! and Otolitos; and Angela Muñoz, a musician, dancer and performer from Spain, who plays with several groups including nunofyrbeeswax, Vrouw and (also with Aidan) Hypnodrone Ensemble. Tavare's debut full-length will be released by God Unknown in spring 2025, following a limited 7" release on Champion Version in November 2024.