Michael Tyack is obsessed with the Middle Ages. His group Circulus is a vent where he escapes in 2005 to create music in a borderland between 1971 British folk rock and the coronation of Henry VIII.
In Tampere, Finland, a newly graduated artist composes music under the name Islaja. On her records for the aesthetically advanced label Final, Islaja sings in Finnish without losing any of her universal pop sensibility.
Under the name Televison Personalties, Dan Treacy has been writing brutally self-disclosing songs for almost 30 years, always with his heart in a thin bag on the outside of his body and with an unwavering uncompromisingness. After years of drug abuse and homelessness, he has recorded his first album in 11 years.
Three grown men in Brighton escape the dreary everyday life by pretending to be a Japanese krautrock duo at night - Fujiya and Miyagi - the trio David, Steve and Matt record hard swinging music on the record label Tirk.
American singer Josephine Foster has one of modern music's most distinctive voices and is constantly on tour as she misses a home. We meet Josephine together with her friends in the Finnish-French duo Mi and L'au in Padova, Italy.
