Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, as well as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world. They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint. Allred’s most recent record, The Rambles & Rags of Shiloh, was released in 2022. 

Kelby Clark is a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist from South Georgia. He is inspired by the old-time fiddle & banjo music of his home state as well as drone, free improvisation and other forms of both experimental and traditional music from around the world. He has released solo work as well as collaborations with Jeremiah M. Carter and Sarah Viviana Valdez on labels such as Vaagner, Working Man Lay Down, Garden Portal and Eastern Nurseries. Clark has also scored several independent films such as Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room (2023) and She Drank Vinegar from the River (2023) . He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.