Ellende
Ellende is some kind of mysterious project whose current members remain unknown... It appears like this outfit is based on an organization diagram where a few core founder members (...one of them is rumoured to be a Dutch architect currently living in Tokyo...) assemble music provided by other anonymous participants, or shape new tracks from a large stock of archived material...
Information retrieved from the Internet suggest that Ellende ("Misery" in Dutch and Afrikaans) exist since some fifteen years and that they operated without a proper name until a few years ago.
Most of the concepts for their releases are based on the writings of Wim Bontjes, an Ellende founder member who died in 1995.
Ellende create a unique brand of mostly drone-based music and their compositions are often mixed with strange and otherworldly noises/effects, voices, percussive sounds, etc.