Concern (drone/usa)is the solo music project of Gordon Ashworth, created in 2004. It is a painstaking collage of magnified overtones and delicate tape manipulation, using strictly acoustic instruments and field recordings as sound sources. Intended to sound at once antique, modern and surreally timeless, Concern is composed of shifting and intimate presences of harmonic resonance and decay, carefully steeped and tempered by the nausea and overwhelming emotion of the outside world.www.forcedbloom.com/concern.htm

Matar dolores (industrial ambient/italien)is a collaborative effort consisting of Francesco Tignola and Giuseppe Esposito, active in Naples, in the south of Italy. Their sound research is based on a massive use of field recordings in a strict compositional perspective and clever breaks of “music”; their gigs usually hit audience for depth and dynamism. First official release, a c 20 tape dedicated to philosopher Karl Polanyi, will see the light in early 2012 through the italian label Joy De Vivre www.joydevivre.it