Vernon Reid is best known as the leader and driving force of the two-times Grammy awarded rock band Living Colour, but his body of work includes far ranging output; from his first appearances in Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society in the early 80’s to his recent recording with David Torn and Elliot Sharp for Knitting Factory Works, "Gtr Obliq". Vernon has been a seminal and influential rock guitarist, historian, and sociologist if you will. The latter two designations given life in his formation of the Black Rock Coalition more than a decade ago with Greg Tate. Reid has collaborated with an impressive array of musicians since the disbanding of Living Colour in 1995, including Don Byron, Bill Frissel, and DJ Spooky. Reid’s last solo release, Mistaken Identity, was an adventurous brew of hip-hop, jazz, rock and textural music. Reid has also been working in the area of theatre and scoring films.

Percy Howard is a singer/songwriter/producer/poet who is the leader of the Northern California ambient post-rock band Nûs, who have two releases on the Belgian Label Sub Rosa, All the Vertical Angels, and Inside is The Only Way Out. Percy is currently collaborating on a series of projects with some of the most interesting progressive musicians in the world. In January 1998 he recorded the MERIDIEM project with Bill Laswell, Fred Frith, and Charles Hayward. Meridiem recently performed a series of three successful shows on the West Coast, including a sold-out date this past January 14 at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. In addition to the MERIDIEM project, Percy has currently started production work on a recording with Vernon Reid, Trey Gunn of King Crimson, and Charles Hayward, which will be recorded in Feb. of 1999. Howard also has projects planned with Bill Reiflin, ex of Ministry and Jarboe (SWANS), and will contribute tracks to Bill Laswell’s next Material project, the hip-hop oriented INTONOMOURI. Howard also is a reader and Poet on the upcoming Sub Rosa release The Hashishsheen, which also features Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Laswell, ,Techno Animal, and Sussan Deyhim, among others. Howard’s background in singing is a mixture in equal parts of rigorous classical training and soul, and his stylings have been compared to Nina Simone, Johnny Hartman, and Scott Walker.

Charles Hayward is a drummer/percussionist and singer who is best known for his work in the extremely influential English band This Heat. Charles is a much in demand musician who has performed with various musicians, from Heiner Goebbels to Everything But The Girl. Hayward is a musicians musician, recognized by many as one of the most brilliant rock drummers breathing. Hayward recently collaborated with Frith and Laswell on the latest incarnation of MASSACRE.

Trey Gunn is the Warr guitarist in the current incarnation of King Crimson and it’s "fracktals" Projeckt 2 with Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew, and Projeckt 4 with Pat Mastelotto, Robert Fripp, and Tony Levin. A native Texan, Gunn now resides in the Pacific Northwest He began his musical life at the