Noise Artists is a blog dedicated to musicians & bands around the world that love crafting beautiful sounds.

We love Shoegaze, Post Rock & similar mesmerising music, from Drone to Blackgaze, Frome Dream Pop to Electronica.

We invite you to follow our journey to discover Noise Artists we love around the world:

• Every month collaborations with Artists to introduce their music and who they are. To summarize, we review artists rather than CDs,

• Playlists with selected artists only, every month,

• Behind the Scene, discover fans, sound engineers, bloggers, DJs...

• Country Music Guides to present scenes (Shoegaze, Dream, Noise and Indie Pop) in various countries.

Music, is very important to us as are:

• Language & culture. When possible interviews & articles will be both in English and the Artists' beautiful languages;

• The collaboration with the artists. Once in Noise Artists, and because we work only with bands which music we really love, we will continue to share their music and promote them over time.

So bands, we do not do reviews as such, we go further (we want to understand who you are), deeper (we want to promote all your music and work, not just one LP/EP), and for longer (once a Noise Artists, always a Noise Artists).

Because we have very limited resources (i.e. time), we can not promote all of you, hence our choice to chose the bands.  Apologies to all the superb artists that we will not feature. 

The team:

• Editor & contributor: David Lignon

• Contributors: Nicolas Pierre Wardell (musician with Beatastic and Xeresa, record label manager Shoredive Records), Sara Massiah (Japanese/English/Italian translator, bass player in Umbrella Burning Festival), Nitin Shamurailatpam (musician with Lo! Peninsula), Deborah Scharpff Sexton (Shoegaze uberfan), Sam Mortley (musician and Shoegaze uberfan), Nicolas Castello (musician with NAX), Gabriela Montiel (blogger, music fan).

• We are looking for contributors. Like minded people always welcomed, wether on a regular or if you have one article only in you. Please contact Noise Artists through the contact page

A big thank you to:

• Amber Editor of "When the sun hits", Matthew Editor of "Muso Japan", Russell Editor of "I was a teenage shoegazer", Jairo Editor of "Sonidos que permanecen", Jimmy Editor of "Sounds better with reverb", Greg from DKFM, Shauna of Shameless Promotion PR (+ Ummagma and Sounds of Sputnik), Jason Editor of Somewherecold (+ Somewherecold records & the corrupting sea) for their sound advice and support

• The photographers of Unsplash & Pixabay for their beautiful work

• The families for letting us having time to pursue our passion

Resources:

• The bands, the people behind the scene

• Muso Japan (Muso Japan) with permission

• When the sun hits (whenthesunhitsblog) with permission

• Sounds better with reverb (soundsbetterwithreverb) with permission

• I was a teenage shoegazer (teenageshoegazer) with permission

• Sonidos que permanecen (ex Latino America Shoegaze) with permission

• Unsplash & Pixabay (applicable T&Cs)

Thank you to the Noise Artists for their beautiful music and for trusting us:

2017: Desktop Error (Thailand), Alpha du Centaure (France), Shojoskip (Japan), PlantCell (Japan), Inspirative (Thailand), Stellamaris (Brazil), Ether Feels (Japan), Beatastic (UK), Palm Haze (Brazil/Canada), Leonard Donat (Germany), Seashine (USA), Tom Lungo (USA), The Corrupting Sea (USA)

2018: Guerraz (UK), My Favourite Things (USA), Life on Venus (Russia), Sadfields (Mexico), Clustersun (Italy), Stella Diana (Italy), Umbrella Burning Festival (Italy), Human Colonies (Italy), The Beremy Jets (Sweden), Candelabre (France), Subsonic Eye (Singapore), Your friends Polymers (Russia), Venusians (Argentina), Rev Rev Rev (Italy), Deconstructed Company (USA), Prince Albert (Ukraine), Linda Guilala (Spain), The City Gates (Canada)

2019: Amusement Parks on Fire (UK), MRCH (USA), Beauty in Chaos (USA), Soviet X-Ray Record Club (Australia), Soot Sprite (UK), Outward (USA), The Telescopes (UK), Fawns of Love (USA), Sugar Violets (USA), A journey of Giraffes (USA), Superdrone (UK), Hoirong (India), Blacanova (Spain), Superego (Indonesia), Loomer (Brazil), Grey Goes Black (UK), Orange Crate Art (Sweden), Jeroen Elfferich (Holland), Ural Mountains (Argentina/France), Staircase Paradox (France), Whimsical (USA), The Microdance (UK), Blankenberge (Russia), Pom Pom Squad (USA), Just Like Honey (USA), Bullet Girls (USA), Purple Dynamine (USA), Luncil (Argentina)

2020: Garden Tapes (Norway), Day & Dream (USA), Sicayda (USA), The Know (USA), Neist Season (France), Sicayda (Canada), The Academy of Sun (UK), Subzero Fun (France), Daydream Deathray (US), 17 years old and Berlin Wall (Japan).

2021: Fleur du Mal (France),

And thanks to all the people "behind the scene":

Koichi Shimizu (sound master), Russell Hiscox (blogger), Jairo Manzur (blogger), Leonard Donat (BlackJack Illuminist record), Jason (SomewhereCold records), DKFM Dj’s

Check our Shoegaze and Dream Pop guides to date:

Russia (2 volumes), France (2 volumes), China, Taiwan, Singapore, Italy, Spain, India, Mexico, Thailand.