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10/9/2023
7 : 4
Poranguí
Good morning. Today we're listening to Poranguí, a Brazilian-Chicano artist and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Brazil, he attended high school in Arizona and growing up studied music across
10/6/2023
7 : 4
Axel Boman
Good morning. We are off on Monday. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Axel Boman, a Swedish producer and DJ. He started DJing at age 13,
10/5/2023
7 : 4
Mary Lou Williams
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mary Lou Williams, an American jazz pianist from Atlanta. She was born in 1910 to a mother who played piano for the local church. As a baby Mary Lou sat on
10/4/2023
7 : 4
Edvard Grieg
Good morning. Today we're listening to Edvard Grieg, a Norwegian composer and pianist. Born in 1843, Grieg began piano lessons with his mother at age six, and enrolled in Leipzig Conservatory at
10/3/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 196
Listen now (97 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with two ambient tracks from Haruhisa Tanaka, a Japanese ambient composer and sound engineer. We then move through new ambient music from
10/2/2023
7 : 4
William Basinski
Good morning. Today we're listening to William Basinski, an American ambient musician. We've featured Basinski four times to date, mostly focusing on the Disintegration Loops and newer works.
9/29/2023
7 : 4
Tom VR
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Tom VR, an English electronic music producer based in London. Tom went to university in Leeds
9/28/2023
7 : 4
Chicago Underground Quartet
Good morning. Today we're listening to Chicago Underground Quartet, a jazz quartet from you guessed it – Chicago. The quartet was originally formed by guitarist Jeff Parker, trumpeter Rob Mazurek,
9/27/2023
7 : 4
Laurel Halo
Good morning. Today we're listening to Laurel Halo, an electronic music producer from Michigan and based in Los Angeles. We'll cut to the chase and say her new album Atlas is maybe our favorite
9/26/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 195
Listen now (100 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with our favorite track from Laurel Halo's excellent new album, Atlas. We continue with some other ambient favorites such as “Sand
9/25/2023
7 : 4
Tatsuro Murakami
Good morning. Today we're listening to Tatsuro Murakami, a guitarist and composer from Tokyo. We previously recommended him in March 2022. Across the 2010s Murakami made several trips to Brazil to
9/22/2023
7 : 4
Gacha Bakradze
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Gacha Bakradze, a Georgian electronic music from Tbilisi. Obscure Languages from 2021 isn
9/21/2023
7 : 4
Matthew Halsall
Good morning. Today we're listening to Matthew Halsall, an English trumpeter and composer. Born and based in Manchester, Halsall took up trumpet in his early teens and got into turntable and sample
9/20/2023
7 : 4
Purelink
Good morning. Today we're listening to Purelink, an electronic music trio based in Chicago. Akeem Asani, Ben Paulson, and Tommy Paslaski linked up in 2019 through a shared interest in Visible
9/19/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 194
Listen now (105 mins) | Good morning, glad to be back. Today's episode begins with ambient pieces by Ex Confusion, Will Samson, Harold Budd, Purelink, and Hiroshi Yokoyama (performing John Cage).
9/18/2023
7 : 4
Will Samson
Good morning, glad to be back. Today we're listening to Will Samson, British ambient producer. Samson's first instrument was drums, and then his exposure to Explosions in the Sky et al.
9/8/2023
7 : 14
Christina Chatfield
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Christina Chatfield, an electronic music producer from the American midwest. She studied
9/8/2023
7 : 14
Dopplereffekt
Good morning. We'll be off next week – back on September 18. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Dopplereffekt, a techno music act from
9/7/2023
7 : 4
Weils
Good morning. We'll be off next week – back on September 18. Today we're listening to Weils, a Swedish instrumental blues band based in Stockholm. Formed by Jonas Teglund and Isak Sundström,
9/6/2023
7 : 4
Ex Confusion
Good morning. We'll be off next week – back on September 18. Today we're listening to Ex Confusion, a Japanese ambient artist based in Tokyo. The project, by multi-instrumentalist Atsuhito