photo credit: Pieter Schoolwerth
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4 DAYS -
3 VENUES -
2 BOROUGHS
Knitting Factory & 92Y Tribeca in Manhattan & Death By Audio in Brooklyn
Pendu presents: NY Eye & Ear Fest II ... a massive 4-day New Music and Arts Fete showcasing some of the most exciting bands, artists, and filmmakers currently living and working here in NYC. In addition, NYE&E assembles a Record Fair featuring NYC-based Record Labels and Vendors selling LPs, CDs, 7''s, cassettes, lathes, comics, zines, stickers, and art prints. The title of the fest is inspired from the 1964 NY Eye & Ear Control soundtrack by Albert Ayler as well as the all-too-familiar signs seen daily in the subway tunnels by riders of the L-train of the infamous NY Eye & Ear Infirmary. If you don't know all of the names in the lineup, don't be alarmed; NYE&E exists to facilitate the introduction of new artists placing them side-by-side with the more well-known like an eclectic living mixtape of sound and vision. This is a festival for discovery - discover new bands + discover new art + buy new records + meet new people...
The festival prices are low to make them affordable in these difficult financial times, so please show your support and buy your tickets now...!
The NY EYE & EAR FESTIVAL has been praised by the Village Voice as being "a first of its kind" and Arthur Magazine describes it as "a giant, swarming, lovingly handpicked showcase of grassroots cultural production in New York".
The inaugural NY Eye & Ear Festival in December 2008 was an incredible success! A big thanks goes out to everyone who attended (especially those who bought records). Thanks goes out to all of the amazing music that is being packaged and created here in New York… Cheers to all the bands and labels who participated. In some ways this seemed an impossible feat to accomplish. 13 bands played on the first day and then a nearly unheard of 23 bands the next? On top of that, 39 NY record labels were represented together in the same room as the bands (which made for a tight fit). Well it happened. It worked, and more than that, it was AWESOME! Hope you come out to the next one in July. Bigger and better, onward and on.
NYE&E is curated by Todd Pendu of the Pendu Organization, a nonprofit arts and cultural organization based in Brooklyn, NY.
*Email NYE&E:
info(at)pendu.org |
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| DAY 1 |
Knitting Factory, Manhattan (all 3 floors)
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: (212) 219-3132
Get Directions >>
NYE&Ewill take over all 3 floors of the Knitting Factory in Manhattan. The top 2 floors will host 14 Music Performances with DJs playing music between sets. The basement will be transformed into a Video Art Installation and a 7-hour Continuous Drone Room.
RADIO23.ORG will be BROADCASTING from the Stage 1 LIVE to wherever you are;
Tune In 7PM e.s.t. !!
Doors @ 6pm
$10 Adv. / $12 Door |
DJ's: Nate Rulli, Josh Druckman, Marty McSorley
_1:30am Nymph
12:30am Begushkin
11:30pm Religious To Damn
10:30pm Love Like Deloreans
_9:30pm Grooms
_8:30pm Hunters
_7:30pm Blondes
_1:00am Neg-Fi
12:00am Liturgy
11:00pm Mike Wexler
10:00pm N. Anatolik
_9:00pm George Steeltoe Ensemble
_8:00pm Best Hits
_7:00pm Dinowalrus
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7Hr-Continuous Drone + Video Art Installation in the basement.
Rebecca Gaffney
Harrison Owen
Peru Ana Ana Peru
1am - 2am
Dubsdread
12pm - 1am
Mathew Morandi
11pm - 12pm
Jesse Gelaznik
10pm - 11pm
Bob Bellerue
9pm - 10pm
Anthony Saunders
8pm - 9pm
Rust Worship
7pm - 8m
Christian Science Minotaur
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| DAY 2 |
Knitting Factory, Manhattan (all 3 floors)
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: (212) 219-3132
Get Directions >>
NYE&E will take over all 3 floors of the Knitting Factory in Manhattan. The top 2 floors will host 14 Music Performances with DJs playing music between sets. The basement will be transformed into a Video Art Installation and a 7-hour Continuous Drone Room.
RADIO23.ORG will be BROADCASTING from the Stage 1 LIVE to wherever you are;
Tune In 7PM e.s.t. !!
Doors @ 6pm
$10 Adv. / $12 Door |
DJ's: Steve Lowenthal, Jane Tesco, Veronica Vasicka
_1:30am Magik Markers
12:30am Chaw Mank (mems of Mouthus & Sightings)
11:30pm Led Er Est
10:30pm Telecult Powers
_9:30pm Further Reductions
_8:30pm Key To Shame (mems of Sightings & NNCK)
_7:30pm Skin Drink
_1:00am SSPS
12:00am Child Abuse
11:00pm Mazing Vids
10:00pm Mirror Mirror
_9:00pm Ana Lola Roman
_8:00pm Hallux
_7:00pm Towering Heroic Dudes
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7Hr-Continuous Drone + Video Art Installation in the basement.
Leia Caldoran
Alison Childs
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1am - 2am
chaos.CM.majik
12pm - 1am
K.P.
11pm - 12pm
Slasher Risk
10pm - 11pm
Ala Muerte
9pm - 10pm
Fluorescent Vibes
8pm - 9pm
Mi Or and the Pedestals
7pm - 8m
Don Sigal |
| DAY 3 --- Record Fair + Film + Bands ---> |
92Y Tribeca, Manhattan
200 Hudson Street,
New York, NY 10013
Tel: (212) 601-1000
Get directions >>
NYE&E will take over 92Y Tribeca Cultural and Community Center with a FREE-ADMISSION Record Fair involving 30+ NYC DIY record labels and vendors. In addition to the
Record Fair and Music Performances there will also be Film Screenings in the beautiful 72-seat 92Y Theatre with the debut of a new Pendu-curated film series entitled Women of NYCinema.
Record Fair opens at 4pm.
Films start at 4:30pm.
Bands begin at 9pm.
$10 Adv. / $12 Door Music-only
$10 Adv. / $12 Door Film-only
$18 Adv. for combined Music + Film Pass |
DJ's: Pieter Wierd, Jeralyn
_1:00am Blacklist
12:30am Martial Canterel
12:00am John Wiese
11:30pm Freshkills
11:00pm Infinity Window
10:30pm Living Days
10:00pm Axolotl
_9:30pm Island's Eyelids
_9:00pm Grasshopper
Bands begin @ 9PM.
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Pendu presents:
featuring filmworks by:
Sarah Lipstate
Liz Wendelbo
Rachel Blackwell w/ Dirty Churches performing a live score
Films begin @ 4:30PM.
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featuring 37 NYC-based DIY Vendors and Record Labels
featuring Abandon Ship Records, Amish Records, AnarchyMoon Recordings, Anathema Sound, Arbitrary Signs, Baked Tapes, Cinders Gallery, Cryptic Carousel, Damage Rituals Cassettes, Death By Audio Records, Digital Cassette Records, Dœs Are, ESP-Disk', Esto Perpetua Records, Fingered Media, Heat Retention Records, Hospital Productions, Impose Records, Infinite Limbs, Journal of Popular Noise, Little Fury Things, Matador Records, Misc Music, Missing Finger Records, No-Core, Noiseville Records, Obsolete Units, Opposite Records, Our Mouth Records, Pendu Sound Recordings, Secret Project Robot, Showpaper, Speed Tapes, Tesco USA, Tingle Fingers, Wierd Records(scroll below for more info)
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| DAY 4 |
Death By Audio, Brooklyn
49 South 2nd Street between Wythe & Kent Brooklyn, NY
NYE&E will travel to Brooklyn and take over Death By Audio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for a finale party.
Doors @ 6pm
No advanced tickets for Sunday.
$10 Door |
12:00am Murdertronics
11:30pm Team Robespierre
11:00pm Talibam!
10:30pm Total Abuse
10:00pm Drunkdriver
_9:30pm Pygmy Shrews
_9:00pm Opponents
DJ's: Paul Haney (THD, Rust Worship), Kassjamps Sound System (Andy + Sarah of Slasher Risk) |
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Films:
-Interior Variations (2009)- 4:12min - A look inward through a collage of fluoroscopic medical imagery and hand-painted 16mm.
-Memory Scars (2007)- 3:26min - An exploration of the impressions left behind by a dream.
-Radiation in Moderation (2006)- 2:40min - A glimpse of life from underneath the machine.
-Phobia (2006)- 2:18min - 16mm hand-painted found-footage piece about the fear of pursuit and desire.
Sarah Lipstate is a Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker. She performs as a solo musician under the moniker Noveller. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. In March 2008, Lipstate joined Parts & Labor as their new guitarist.
Her short films screened for two consecutive years at SXSW, and earned Lipstate the "Diamond in the Rough Cut" award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas 2006. Her short, Memory Scars, screened at the Reel Venus Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in NYC in October 2008. She debuted her most recent short film Interior Variations at the New Museum in NYC as part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May.
Artist website: http://www.sarahlipstate.com
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COLD CINEMA: FILMS BY LIZ WENDELBO
‘Opticks I – XIV’ 2009, 3 minutes x 14, 16mm, color and bw, sound. Editing by Taylor Thompson; performances by Brandi Hudson, Elissa Santiago; music by Sean McBride (Martial Canterel / Xeno & Oaklander) Total running time: ca. 50 minutes
Born in the dark era that is the new millennium in New York, the ‘cold cinema’ of Liz Wendelbo is a return to analogue film. Originating from the NY Minimal Electronics music scene (Xeno & Oaklander), Liz Wendelbo engages in a form of filmmaking that predicates resistance to cinema as a virtual medium. Her latest work is a series of short three-minute films entitled ‘Opticks’. Her films explore themes of darkness, rituals, Goth iconography and film as a medium, with melancholy and restraint. With a fondness for obsolete technology, she uses 16mm and double 8 as her shooting medium of choice, in color and black and white. ‘Opticks’ is structured in a modular way: the short films are numbered one through fourteen and are interchangeable. Three sections surface overall – the abstract optical experiments of the ‘Maxwell Tartan Ribbon’ series (A 19th century Scottish physicist, Maxwell ‘projected’ the first color photograph using Newton’s color theory in 1861 – the image was a tartan ribbon); the dance and movement based Goth ‘Rituals’ series; and the ‘film-as-historical document’ framework of World War II, industrial and personal found footage of the ‘Excavation’ and ‘Columns’ series.
Brooklyn based artist Liz Wendelbo is a founding member of the band ‘Xeno & Oaklander’. Group shows include W139, Amsterdam; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY; and White Columns, NY. Solo projects include ‘Zurück’, Foundation 20/21 at NYEHAUS, New York (2005); and a screening ‘Cold Cinema’ at New York’s Anthology Film Archives.
Artist website: http://lizwendelbo.com |
Films:
-Meditations on Death- approximately 8 minutes
-Yes! Witches - 5 minutes
-Death For Sale- variable, 17 minute loop
A Live Score will be provided by Dirty Churches
Rachel R. Blackwell is a video and collage artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Rachel Blackwell is presenting three videos at the NY Eye & Ear Fest. First is Meditations on Death, which is a survey of symbolic associations of death. Yes! Witches is an exploration of the mysterious allure of the witch. Death For Sale is a piece created in response to the Iraq war in 2003.
All three videos will be screened with a live score composed by Jesse Gelaznik and performed by Dirty Churches.
Dirty Churches is a sound-art collective from Brooklyn that has been conducting experiments based on Black Swan theory and surgical sonic terror in and around NYC since 2003.
Artist website: launching this summer - http://www.rachelrblackwell.com, til then go to http://www.youtube.com/user/rachelrblackwell
Dirty Churches website: http://www.myspace.com/deathtodirtychurches |
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| On , the NYE&E Festival will host a Record Fair for NYC-based DIY Vendors and Record Labels at 92Y Tribeca. Entrance to the to the public from 4pm - 12am. |
more to be announced…
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Abandon Ship Records
Amish Records
AnarchyMoon Recordings
Anathema Sound
Arbitrary Signs
Baked Tapes
Cinders Gallery
Cryptic Carousel
Damage Rituals Cassettes
Death By Audio Records
Digital Cassette Records
Dœs Are
ESP-Disk'
Esto Perpetua Records
Fingered Media
Heat Retention Records
Hospital Productions
Impose Records
Infinite Limbs
Journal of Popular Noise
Little Fury Things
Matador Records
Misc Music
Missing Finger Records
No-Core
Noiseville Records
Obsolete Units
Opposite Records
Our Mouth Records
Pendu Sound Recordings
Secret Project Robot
Serenta
Showpaper
Speed Tapes
Tesco USA
Tingle Fingers
Wierd Records
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Learn more about the Vendors:
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Abandon Ship Records (http://abandonshiprecords.com) was started in 2007 as an effort to produce quality music in quality packaging. We hope to further this in the coming years with more vinyl releases.
The label has released records by:
_+_ Eskimo King
_+_ Steve Gunn
_+_ Human Adult Band
_+_ Slasher Risk
_+_ Predator Vision
_+_ and more...
Amish Records (http://www.amishrecords.com) For fifteen-years Amish has released minimalist drone, downtown Gods/Fugs-inspired freak-outs, country-inflected rock, and the sounds of the both the neu-British-Folk revival and the Canterbury Renaissance. We are pleased to introduce our Required Wreckers LP Series. Here’s a list of past and future burners:
_+_ Oakley Hall
_+_ Mike Wexler
_+_ Metabolismus
_+_ Theo Angell
_+_ Son of Earth
_+_ and more...
AnarchyMoon Recordings (http://anarchymoon.com) - anokmoon is noise love for you. Artists include:
_+_ Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
_+_ Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device
_+_ Kenji Siratori
_+_ Smegma
_+_ Redglaer
_+_ and more...
Anathema Sound (http://anathemasound.blogspot.com) is a Brooklyn/Atlanta-based cassette label focused on drone, noise, and experimental/psychedelic sounds. All releases presented with a consistent, unique aesthetic and original artwork. Releases and distro by:
_+_ Bones of Seabirds
_+_ Husere Grav
_+_ The North Sea
_+_ Sean McCann
_+_ Meditations
_+_ and more...
Baked Tapes (http://www.bakedtapes.com) Making the world a bit hazier one tape saturated morsel at a time, Baked started in Fall 2007 as a testament to the sounds of a new New York. The label has released tapes by:
_+_ Noveller
_+_ Slasher Risk
_+_ Nonhorse
_+_ Telecult Powers / Bob Bellerue
_+_ TwistyCat
_+_ and more...
Cryptic Carousel (http://www.crypticcarousel.com) has put out its 24th release with much more on the way. The format is generally cassette tape and the sounds range from lo fi vocal experiments and ambient soundscapes to pop music and harsh electronics. Artists include:
_+_ Crank Sturgeon
_+_ Towering Heroic Dudes
_+_ Joey Chainsaw
_+_ Miami Beach
_+_ Fluorescent Vibes
_+_ and more...
Damage Rituals Cassettes (http://www.damagerituals.com) releases cassette tapes of brutal, complex, weird, aggressive and/or deep music in the metal, punk, and rock genres. 5 bands on the label:
_+_ Vaz
_+_ White Mice
_+_ Dysrhythmia
_+_ Zs
_+_ Ocrilim
_+_ and more...
Death by Audio (http://deathbyaudiorecords.com) is a collective of friends centered around the guitar pedal factory/independent rock venue by the same name in Brooklyn, NY.
_+_ Sisters
_+_ Grooms
_+_ JEFF the Brotherhood
_+_ Coin Under Tongue
_+_ Seawhores
_+_ and more...
Digital Cassette Records (http://www.myspace.com/digitalcassette)is a Brooklyn based label of experimental music from (and often combining) various genres/styles--from folk to techno to noise, low-fi to high. Bands on the label:
_+_ Digital Cassette
_+_ Thank You Squid
_+_ David Eisenhauer
_+_ Clel Howard
_+_ Island of Man
_+_ and more...
Dœs Are (http://www.myspace.com/doesare)releases spread heavy boogieness & hard pop jams from NYC and Florida throughout the world, where they ought to be. Artists include:
_+_ Tonstartssbandht
_+_ NASA
_+_ Cool World
_+_ Superbud
_+_ Blank Check feat. Juice
_+_ and more...
ESP Disk' (http://espdisk.com) "You have never heard such sounds in you life" ... ESP-DISK’ opened for business in New York City in 1966 on the 12th floor of 156 5th Avenue. During its first 18 months, 45 albums were recorded and released. The label was the first label to release records by:
_+_ Albert Ayler
_+_ Pharaoh Sanders
_+_ Sun Ra
_+_ Marion Brown
_+_ Sunny Murray
_+_ and more...
Esto Perpetua Records (http://www.estoperpetuarecords.com) is a small label/distro based in NY, NJ, and PA and specializing in black metal, noise, and visual art. We are the home of a number of bands like T.O.M.B. and Black Albatross and visual artists like A. Flesher (prints) and Ux. M. (film). We are also instrumental in setting up performances in the area. EP records also serves as a distro for extreme metal acts from Pakistan/India. Artists include:
_+_ T.O.M.B.: Black Noise/ Industrial/ Black metal artist from PA
_+_ Panther Modern:Noise - black, cosmic, celestial
_+_ Black Albatross:Black metal/noise/ambient/Doom
_+_ Amorte: noise from Poland
_+_ Tenebrious: Black Noise
_+_ and more...
Fingered Media (http://www.fingeredmedia.com) was formed at the beginning of 2006 to produce the video magazine, Fingered Dvdzine, to assist and collaborate with artists and musicians on video projects, and to help create and foster a positive, progressive, and community-based culture. FM is also the official videographer for the NY EYE & EAR FESTIVAL.
_+_ Excepter
_+_ Indian Jewelry
_+_ Telepathe
_+_ Psychic Ills
_+_ Health
_+_ and more...
Heat Retention Records (http://www.heatretentionrecords.com) Based out of Brooklyn, since 2003 Heat Retention Records has 28 releases on vinyl, cassette, CD and CDR, from artists/bands from the throughout the US, UK and Greece. Artists include:
_+_ George Steeltoe Ensemble
_+_ Reverse Mouth
_+_ Walter Carson
_+_ Temperatures
_+_ Michael Thomas Jackson
_+_ and more...
The Journal of Popular Noise (http://www.popularnoise.net) is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. Produced in limited editions of hand-folded, letter-press printed copies, the JPN seeks to elevate the experience of listening to recorded sounds. Artists include:
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Andrew W.K.
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Felt Letters (Ian Svenonius/Brendan Canty)
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Past Lives
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Climax Golden Twins
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Truckasauras
_+_ and more...
Little Fury Things (http://www.littlefurythings.net) is a Brooklyn-based label intent on making painfully eclectic music seem commonplace and purposeful and not sucky.
The label has released records by:
_+_ Christian Science Minotaur
_+_ Realax
_+_ Universal Studios Florida
_+_ Color Rabbit
_+_ Sperm Whales
_+_ and more...
Matador Records (http://matadorrecords.com) - Throughout the label’s history, Matador has been a champion of artistic freedom, diversity and innovation. The label’s catalog and release schedule reflect the tastes of the company’s owners, Lombardi and Cosloy, and their longstanding commitment to sharing the music they love with as many others as possible.
_+_ Sonic Youth
_+_ Jay Reatard
_+_ Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
_+_ Kurt Vile
_+_ Times New Viking
_+_ and more...
Missing Fingers (http://missingfingerrecords.com) is a Brooklyn based label established in 2007 dedicated to releasing new and creative music in the genres of punk, rock and metal on vinyl. cassette, and cd-r. Releases and distro by:
_+_ TRICLOPS!
_+_ The Pity Party
_+_ Judo Rodriguez
_+_ The Lungs
_+_ Bloody Panda
_+_ and more...
NO-CORE (http://www.no-core.net) - a podcast, music blog, and record distro for no-wave, noise, noise-rock, experimental, and other weird/noisy sounds. Distro-ing and/or released stuff by:
Mincemeat or Tenspeed
_+_ Unicorn Hard-On
_+_ Taiwan Deth
_+_ Narwhalz
_+_ Radio Shock
_+_ and more...
Noiseville (http://www.noiseville.com) has been a corporate free independent label for 20 years. We release records (and some cd's) by unique artists, and do not pander to trends that eventually crash into the rocks and die.
Artists include:
_+_ Merzbow
_+_ Wicked King Wicker
_+_ Skullflower
_+_ Chrome
_+_ Unholy Swill
_+_ and more...
Obsolete Units (http://www.myspace.com/obsoleteunits) launched in 2006 for the purpose of documenting all sorts of sonics from the fringes, from noise to drone to weirdo-improv to everything else in between. The label has released records by:
_+_ Slasher Risk
_+_ Totally Dad
_+_ Telecult Powers
_+_ Millions
_+_ Hells Hills
_+_ and more...
Opposite Records (http://www.oppositerecords.com) exists because we love these sounds. We're always ready to hear something great for the first time. That's our idea of fun. Stamp out short attention spans. The label has released records by:
_+_ Junko/Urabe/Henritzi
_+_ Ken Timber
_+_ hs52bis
_+_ Death's Head Quartet
_+_ KK Null
_+_ and more...
Pendu Sound Recordings (http://www.pendusound.com) is a Brooklyn-based recording label dedicated to spontaneous and intuitive actions. The label has released records by:
_+_ Atelecine (Sasha Grey Duo)
_+_ Gang Wizard
_+_ Ghost Moth
_+_ Talibam!
_+_ Kristin Calvarese
_+_ and more...
Speed Tapes (http://www.myspace.com/speedtapes) is a Brooklyn-based label intent on making tons of money selling cassette tapes. Genre? Fried. Artists held hostage by contracts with lots of tiny print include:
_+_ Buckets of Bile
_+_ Soloing Over Alanis Morissette
_+_ Patriotic Window Klings
_+_ Paid in Puke
_+_ Puking Pearls
_+_ and more...
Tesco USA (http://www.tesco-distro.com), the American distribution wing and sister label of TESCO GERMANY, was founded in 2001 and specializes in industrial, noise, power electronics, dark ambient, neofolk, experimental and other "musics that hurt." We distribute releases and book shows for:
_+_ Blood Axis
_+_ Changes
_+_ Cult of Youth
_+_ David E. Williams
_+_ The Lindbergh Baby
_+_ and more...
Wierd Records (http://www.wierdrecords.com) is the home of the Post-Wave record label Wierd Records in New York City as well as the weekly nightclub WIERD held every Wednesday @ Home Sweet Home, NYC.
_+_ Blacklist
_+_ Martial Canterel
_+_ Led Er Est
_+_ Sleep Museum
_+_ Epee Du Bois
_+_ and more... |
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Sarah Lipstate
Liz Wendelbo
Rachel Blackwell
