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12/11/2023
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Satoshi Ashikawa
Good morning. Flow State turned 5 yesterday. We made an anniversary tee that lists the artists we've featured to date. The list is printed upside down, so if the wearer of the shirt needs a rec,
12/8/2023
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dj +1
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something slightly more upbeat. Today we're listening to dj +1, a Colombian electronic music producer from Bógota. We discovered him on
12/7/2023
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Laurindo Almeida
Good morning. Today we're listening to Laurindo Almeida, a Brazilian guitarist and composer from São Paulo. Born in 1917, he studied classical guitar and started playing professionally in his
12/6/2023
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Grand River
Good morning. Today we're listening to Grand River, a Dutch-Italian composer and producer based in Berlin. Early on she was exposed to minimalist and ambient composers such as “Meredith Monk, Jean-
12/5/2023
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Flow State Episode 205
Listen now (102 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a couple long ambient tracks from Eternell and James Bernard & anthéne. We move through harp from Lavinia Meijer and accordion from
12/4/2023
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Samuel Reinhard
Today we have a guest recommendation from Stephan Kunze, an independent music and culture writer based in Germany. His weekly newsletter Zen Sounds covers experimental music from many genres: jazz,
12/1/2023
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Yetsuby
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Yetsuby, a Korean music producer based in Seoul. She's one half of the duo Salamanda,
11/30/2023
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McCoy Tyner
Good morning. Today we're listening to McCoy Tyner, an American jazz pianist and composer from Philadelphia. He started playing piano at age 13, and in high school played professionally across
11/29/2023
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Khatia Buniatishvili
Good morning. Today we're listening to Khatia Buniatishvili, a Georgian pianist from Tbilisi. She took up piano at age three, studying with her mother, and debuted as a soloist with orchestra at
11/28/2023
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Flow State Episode 204
Listen now (84 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with ambient music from Brian Eno, Johnny Nash, and Will Gardner. Mary Lattimore covered Hiroshi Yoshmiura's “Blink” on the harp. We
11/27/2023
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Bruce Brubaker (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Bruce Brubaker, an American pianist from Iowa. He studied at Juilliard, gravitating toward modern composers such as John Adams, Meredith Monk, and Terry Riley
11/22/2023
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Johnny Nash
Good morning. We're off tomorrow and Friday. Today we're listening to Johnny Nash, a multi-instrumentalist based in Amsterdam. Nash runs the label Melody as Truth and is a member of the ambient
11/21/2023
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Flow State Episode 203: Michael Cina
Listen now (98 mins) | Good morning. Today's episode is a collaboration with Michael Cina, a versatile artist and designer based in North St. Paul, Minnesota. Currently the principal of Cina
11/20/2023
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André 3000
Good morning. Today we're listening to André 3000, an American rapper, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Atlanta. As one half of Outkast, André created timeless hip-hop and pop songs while
11/17/2023
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Ayesha
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Ayesha, an electronic music producer based in Queens, NY. Growing up, her family moved around
11/17/2023
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Celia Hollander (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Celia Hollander, an American pianist and composer based in Los Angeles. Hollander's music is in a league of its own. She composes “ambient-adjacent audio
11/17/2023
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11/17/2023
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Bernard Herrmann
Good morning. Today we're listening to Bernard Herrmann, an American composer and conductor from New York City. He studied at New York University and Juilliard, and joined CBS as a staff conductor,
11/14/2023
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Flow State Episode 202
Listen now (101 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with harpist Lara Somogyi's moving cover of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto. We then play a bunch of new ambient
11/13/2023
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Thomas Köner
Good morning. Today we're listening to Thomas Köner, a German multimedia artist from Bochum. Köner picked up instruments at a young age, and fell into video editing after studying composition and