Aarktica

Aarktica is the longest-running and most productive project of Los Angeles-based musician Jon DeRosa. Debuting with the wintry, guitar-based drone of 2000's No Solace in Sleep, Aarktica evolved to encompass electronic dream pop on 2002's Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life and Be Happy Anyway, as well as Indian classical and jazz influences on releases like 2005's Bleeding Light, incorporating brass, harmonium, strings, and other acoustic instruments. While DeRosa began producing chamber pop under his own name during the 2010s, he kept Aarktica active for his more gla...