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7/11/2024
6 : 24
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mishka Rushdie Momen, a British pianist from London. She studied with Imogen Cooper and Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and began
7/9/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 235
Listen now (111 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with new ambient music from Buildings and Food, Chihei Hatakeyama, Metric System 1981, and marine eyes. We play Bruce Brubaker's solo
7/8/2024
7 : 4
Eiko Ishibashi (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Eiko Ishibashi, a Japanese pianist and composer based in Tokyo. We first recommended her music back in April, focusing on her score for Drive My Car from 2021
7/2/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 234
Listen now (119 mins) | Good morning. We'll be off Thursday and Friday. Today's episode opens with a few ambient compositions on the lachrymose side, from William Basinski, zakè, and øjeRum.
7/1/2024
7 : 4
KMRU
Good morning. Today we're listening to KMRU, a Kenyan music producer from Nairobi. We previously featured Joseph Kamaru's music in 2020 and in 2023. After gaining traction as a house/techno DJ,
6/28/2024
7 : 4
Beta Librae
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Beta Librae, an electronic music producer and DJ originally from Kansas and now based in
6/27/2024
7 : 4
Mitsuko Uchida
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mitsuko Uchida, a Japanese pianist and conductor originally from Atami. She was raised there and then Vienna, where she moved when she was 12, and attended
6/26/2024
7 : 4
Henrik Lindstrand
Good morning. Today we're listening to Henrik Lindstrand, a Swedish pianist and composer based in Copenhagen. We originally recommended his music five years ago. He first played the keys on his
6/25/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 233
Listen now (111 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix is all longform ambient pieces. It starts with Seconds' 11-minute drone track “Flat Ontology.” Then we play long ambient pieces both classic
6/24/2024
7 : 4
Taylor Deupree (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Taylor Deupree, an American ambient musician based in upstate New York. We first recommended his music back in 2019. Deupree began making electronic music in
6/21/2024
7 : 4
µ-Ziq
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to µ-Ziq, an electronic music project from Englishman Mike Paradinas. We first recommended his
6/20/2024
7 : 4
Kalia Vandever (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kalia Vandever, a trombonist and bandleader based in Brooklyn. She grew up in Los Angeles, started playing trombone at age eight, and went on to study music
6/19/2024
7 : 14
George Walker
Good morning. Today we're listening to George Walker, an American pianist and composer from Washington, DC Born in 1922, he started playing piano at age five, and studied at the Curtis Institute of
6/18/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 232
Listen now (94 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix ebbs and flows rather than gradually building. It opens with an instrumental from Ezra Feinberg, followed by a new electronic collaboration between
6/17/2024
7 : 4
Chihei Hatakeyama
Good morning. Today we're listening to Chihei Hatakeyama, a Japanese ambient music composer based in Tokyo. We've featured him three times before, most recently in 2021. Since then the prolific
6/14/2024
7 : 4
Bodhi
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Bodhi, a Welsh electronic duo from Cardiff. They've been in our dance music rotation for
6/13/2024
8 : 4
Marina Barinova
Good morning. Today we're listening to Marina Barinova, a Ukrainian pianist and composer from Kharkiv. She started playing piano at age five and moved to Hanover (where she currently resides) at 19
6/13/2024
7 : 59
Ezra Feinberg (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ezra Feinberg, an American guitarist and composer based in upstate New York. We previously recommended Feinberg back in 2020. We're playing his new album
6/11/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 231
Listen now (85 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with an ambient trombone piece by Kalia Vandever. Then there some more experimental instrumentals from NUG, Penelope Trappes (who also ends
6/10/2024
7 : 4
Ai Yamamoto
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ai Yamamoto, a Japanese electronic music producer based in Melbourne, Australia. We discovered her music via marine eyes' latest women of ambient mix.