MAJID ARAIM (Atlanta GA)
http://majidaraim1.bandcamp.com/
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, curator, and a fixture of the Atlanta improvisation and new music communities. Majid's prolific work as a composer focuses on resonance and dynamics, experimental approaches, and is oriented towards the natural world and fantasy realms. Majid has given hundreds of performances across the United States and Europe as soloist and in the duo Whispers of Night, as well as experimental music groups such as the Convergence, Chamber Cartel, Bent Frequency, Small Peoples Music Ensemble, BASrelief, and Atlanta Improvisor’s Orchestra, which in 2018 composed the music for TV network, Adult Swim’s Tender Touches season 2 (Operetta Versions).

LUCAS BRODE (Hudson Valley NY)
http://lucasbrode.bandcamp.com/
Guitarist & composer working primarily with the concepts of memory, misplaced nostalgia, repetition, chaos, subtlety, and traversing spectral landscapes. He draws from jazz harmony, experimental rock textures, and African rhythms. Lucas often performs solo, leads his own trio, and is an active performer and improviser in the NYC and Hudson Valley experimental music scenes. Past and present collaborators include G. Calvin Weston, Kevin Shea, Daniel Carter, Luke Stewart, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Colin Fisher, Zach Cooper, Al Margolis, and many more. Lucas is well known in the Northeast US for his years in the math-rock / post-rock hybrid band, Hannibal Montana.

Local favorites!!
HOLLOW DECK
http://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/all-the-roots
BRITTANY BRIDEAU (of Hot Dirt fame)
http://hotdirt.bandcamp.com/music
TOPPUS BOTTOMUS
http://yourziggurat.bandcamp.com/