Adventure Team is a multinational lo-fi indie rock three-piece with members from Germany, England and Argentina. Jonathan, Ian and Juan recorded their sophomore album, In Giraffe, which was out via Glasgow indie label Heavenly Creature Records on the 26th of April, over the course of three days in a remote farmhouse just north of Bordeaux. The band, initially brought together amidst Berlin’s underground DIY scene, tucked away in the middle of French countryside, recording a perfect package of intricate power pop fuzz. “There is one song that was written as a blatant Dinosaur Jr. rip-off…Sucker from Outer Space…as a reaction to getting constantly compared to them!” says Jonathan. In Giraffe is jangly and catchy, intricate and loud, made by a group of friends making music they love, in the middle of nowhere in France. The title, which is taken from the track Indigo, is a direct reference to Marshall Rosenberg’s theory that giraffes speak the language of empathetic connection. “A friend turned me on to Marshall around the time I was writing the record. It’s a plea for overcoming our differences with each other.”.

Francesca Bono is a performer, musician and singer-songwriter from Bologna, founder of the band Ofeliadorme and the experimental duo Bono / Burattini, whose 2023 debut album (out on Maple Death Records) received interest from BBC6, The Wire, Internazionale, Radio Rai 3, Brooklyn Vegan, TAZ and Il Manifesto. She played in Europe, UK, USA and China, and in international festivals such as WOMAD, SXSW, San Francisco Music Festival and Homemade. A member of the feminist collective DonnaCirco, over the years she has collaborated with Mick Harvey, Howie B, Massimo Volume, Jonathan Clancy, Stefano Pilia, Massimo Carozzi and Muna Mussie, Gianni Maroccolo, Angela Baraldi, Emidio Clementi and Corrado Nuccini, the playwright and actor Oscar Da Summa, the artist Susana Ljuljanovic and shared the stage with Beak, Jon Hopkins, The Bug, Rival Consoles. In 2023 she illustrated La Settimana della Banana, a children’s book about Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground written by Elisa De Munari. The first album under her name, Crumpled Canvas, was co-produced by Mick Harvey (The Birthday Party, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), who also played in it, and is part of an ongoing exploration on sound and a variety of musical genres and influences, with a focus on the use of voice and its therapeutic power. In her own words, it is just “one of my possible solo debuts”.

Sima Cunningham is a Chicago-based musician, songwriter, producer, presenter, and a founding member of Chicago’s art-rock band, Finom. Over the past 15 years she has worked as a recording and touring musician with Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, Iron & Wine, Edith Frost, Chance the Rapper, Twin Peaks, and been featured on multitudes of records. She co-owns a recording studio in Chicago, Fox Hall, where she produces records for her own projects and other artists. In 2015 she formed Finom (fka OHMME) which has been her primary project for the past decade. They have released three records: Parts (2018), Fantasize Your Ghost (2020), and Not God (2024) with Joyful Noise Recordings. The band was recently commissioned to write and perform a piece with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and Orchestra in Seattle. An Armenian-American artist and descendent of genocide survivors she has focused much of her work on building connections and healing divides through music. Over the last ten years, she has traveled to Armenia and the Caucasus to perform, participate in workshops, and foster creative cross-cultural opportunities between artists in Armenia and the United States. Her work as an artist-presenter includes founding a small music festival, Postock, that will celebrate its 16th year in 2024; curating and hosting the I Hear Voices series in Chicago at Constellation; and working as a lead organizer for the Pitchfork Music Festival. Her debut solo record, High Roller, was released on August 30th on Ruination Records.