Tokyo's Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married couple who have been making music since 2000, and together run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records.Tenniscoats manage to reign in the sounds of the avant-garde and knit them into accessible and wonderfully listenable vignettes in which you find yourself going back to again and again. Their starting point is pop songs, but with a staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything is possible. A song can be performed in a myriad ways.
Tenniscoats have become one of the hippest bands on the underground scene, though their vast legion of worldwide fans probably indicates that 'underground' is no longer applicable. Such renown is helped, of course, by an ability to produce the kind of music that grabs your attention whatever you're doing.
Actually, 'band' is something of a misnomer for Tenniscoats. In essence, they are a duo; guitarist Takashi Ueno works with Saya on all Tenniscoats recordings and performances. They collaborate freely and regularly with an eclectic group of accomplices, seemingly incapable of not making music.
http://www.myspace.com/tenniscoats

Rachel Shearer has released a series of projects and performed live under the moniker Lovely Midget since 1997 with a 10” vinyl release on US label ‘Ecstatic Peace’, a CD on NZ label Corpus Hermeticum in 2000,a 2003 CD release with US label Family Vineyard.
Earlier experience harks back to the late 80’s/early 90’s with releases on NZ cassette label ‘Xpressway’ as part of the group Angelhead, Flying Nun and Siltbreeze releases with all girl avant-goth-rock group Queen Meanie Puss.
Rachel combines her musical experimentations with a variety of sound practices - creating public sound installations, composing music for film, involvement as an experimental composer and performer in live events exploring the relationship between audio and the projected image, freelancing as a sound designer/sound editor for feature films, documentaries and television drama.

http://family-vineyard.com/catalog/fv40.php