Modern Nations
Modern Nations is a collaborative project helmed by veteran producers and principal songwriters Nolan Thies and Toby Pipes. The duo have spent the past several years creating electro pop dreamscapes and collaborating from Dallas, TX by way of Brooklyn, NY with a series of vocalists to enhance their vision.
Shannon Ferguson
Known for his celebrated guitar work with New York City's indie rock band Longwave, whose career launched in the early 2000s with several releases on RCA Records and multiple world tours, Ferguson has also scored for film (Pillhead), television, and a wide array of multimedia projects.
The Blessed Isles
The Blessed Isles is Nolan Thies and Aaron Closson—one part Brooklyn, New York and one part Dallas, Texas. After the duo’s debut full-length release in 2016, Closson began feeling unwell and experiencing symptoms that led to a diagnosis of a brain tumor. Future plans were put on hold. After a successful craniotomy, Closson slowly resumed sharing ideas with Thies.
Bob Oxblood
Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Bob Oxblood combines classical finger picking with synthetic textures and melancholic, longing vocals. Having spent earlier years providing electric tones with Orange County power pop outfits Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate as well as crossing the US as a touring guitarist with the likes of John Legend, Oxblood has been crafting his solo work in studios and on stages in New York and Los Angeles for the past few years.
Tiger Mountain
Tiger Mountain is an electronic collective that creates music with beats, soundscapes, digital, analog and found sounds. Their sound encompasses cinematic and abstract backgrounds to structured rhythmic oscillations. Their music has been used as soundtracks and performed live for multimedia art installations in and around New York City.
Live Footage
Live Footage is electric cellist Topu Lyo and drummer-keyboardist Mike Thies. Based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the pair produce improvisational aural landscapes constructed from live instruments, loops, samples, synthesizer processing and tape manipulations with input from occasional collaborators.
Boris Skalsky
Boris Skalsky is a musician, composer, and songwriter releasing and writing music through a number of projects. His work ranges from the quiet folk of solo acoustic releases, ambient rock of bands Dead Heart Bloom and Phaser, contemporary classical instrumental works, and experimental electronics of the synth collective Tiger Mountain.
Rubin Kodheli
Composer and cellist Rubin Kodheli has been blending threads of rock, jazz and classical influences throughout the New York scene for over twenty years. Albanian-born and Julliard-trained, His unique approach has led to extensive collaborations across the musical spectrum, including with experimental luminaries Laurie Anderson and Phillip Glass, Pulitzer-prize winning jazz composer Henry Threadgill.
Dead Heart Bloom
Dead Heart Bloom was formed by songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Boris Skalskyand guitarist Paul Wood following the dissolution of their previous band, the Washington, DC-based Phaser. In 2015 and 2016, Dead Heart Bloom began releasing new material, mixed by Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev.