"Year Of No Light formed in 2001 in Bordeaux (Fr). With their first album, Nord, YONL have proven adept a shifting seamlessly between genres, balancing post-rock, sludge, somber psychedelics and crushing dark shoegaze. In 2010, now backed by two drums, 3 guitars, the band released its second album, Ausserwelt, oscillating between drone, doom, post-rock, black metal and progressive music."

Most people will typically associate the set-up of one man and his guitar with folk music. For microphonics, however, dirk serries, the creative force behind vidnaObmana and Fear Falls Burning, has his mind set to different horizons. Equipped with nothing but a gibson les paul and a few effect pedals, he turns clubs, artgalleries, unusual performance sites and concert houses into intimate spaces of sonic echoes and shimmering overtones. Allowing for the music to grow from the moment, each performance is unique and makes full use of the ambiance and acoustic characteristics of a venue. You can see serries ‘capturing’ his own reflections and sending back replies, twisting and turning his guitar to shape the air around it. Ranging from tender, minimal ambient pieces to disturbing cinematic soundscapes, his tracks are based on slowly evolving themes which gradually combine into melancholic melodies and gracefully flowing harmonic patterns. Microphonics is all about drawing the full potential from a  reduced instrumentation – evoking associations with electronica, avant-garde and improvisation alike.

Dirk Serries (born 1968 in Antwerp, Belgium) has been an active and influential player in the independent experimental music scene since 1984.  Since then, he has released over 50 albums, both as a solo artist or in collaboration with highly respected collagues. Musical partners over the years have included minimal electronica masterminds Asmus Tietchens and Kenneth Kirschner, Steven Wilson of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, ambient pioneer Steve Roach and drone master Alio Die as well as Steve von Till of extreme metal band Neurosis and Justin K. Broadrick.
Serries’ music has been issued by international labels from the most diverse corners of the music scene: while Projekt, Multimood, Soleilmoon and Hypnos have mainly focussed on his ambient work, Relapse and Conspiracy Records have highlighted his more guitar-driven productions.

For the highly personal Microphonics project, he has signed to dutch specialist label Tonefloat with its penchant for luxuriously designed vinyl editions.
With his various projects, serries has toured extensively across the globe and gained recognition for his uncompromising, clear and unique version of experimental music.

discography : microphonics I-V (180gram vinyl lp+ cd, tonefloat 2008) / microphonics VI (180gram one-sided lp, tonefloat 2009) / microphonics VII (180gram one-sided lp, tonefloat 2009) / microphonics XII (tour edition 10”, tonefloat 2010)

Alkaly Progressive Rock? A draft post-rock? Literally, yes, but that's it! Words have their limits and fair ... When the depth of emotion is translated into words, when the alchemy lifts the veil, the analysis was more meaningful. .. .. Created in 2006, this training consists of a guitar deliciously mad , a battery simply incredible , a bass player in turn and oppressive ... Not to mention a druid, who says he is a bass, but nothing suggests, and especially not the sounds, or forms of instruments ... Alkaly to be understood, listen. The set remains a complicated exercise. In order to approach, one could speak of influences such as Mogwaï or Can ... A trip-hop atmosphere that contrasts with a rhythmic always surprising, scalable, as well as threatening attractive. Alkaly is not intended to bring the texts, however, research and experimentation encouraged to violate its own rules ... A meeting not to be missed, to see