Born in 1988, Rob Magill is a Composer/Improviser/Multi-Instrumentalist/Singer-Song Writer/Concert Promoter/Photographer/Painter/Poet from Ojai, CA. Label owner of Weird Cry Records, founded in 2013. Magill started recording solo material in 2010. Playing in the band Dreamcolour from 2007 - 2015. Collaborating with many local and world renowned musicians.
Marc Merza is a Filipino-American artist and musician based in Los Angeles, California. His recordings are at times improvisational and spontaneous, and other times, heavily crafted, sculpted and reworked. He has spent the past fifteen years performing and collaborating with other musicians in Brooklyn, Oakland, Tokyo, Taipei, Porto, Manila and beyond. He often composes on guitar, clarinet and Kulintang (a Filipino gong set) to speak to others, but the use of tape loops, field recordings and electronic equipment are not foreign in Marc’s music.
No Translation is the solo project of Emma Palm, a Los Angeles based musician and multimedia artist with Taiwanese roots. Emma’s audio and visual work reflects on the specificity of relationships between the self and environment, location and memory, relationships and communication. Her music often collages vocals, synths, and field recordings to create personal and meditative soundscapes while her visual art includes digital and analog collage, drawing, painting, photography and video.