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7/31/2023
7 : 4
Ensemble Dedalus
Good morning. The Flow State summer T-shirt is on sale here. Today we're listening to Ensemble Dedalus, a French ensemble based in Toulouse. Founded in 1996 by guitarist and composer Didier Aschour
7/28/2023
7 : 4
Yoshihiro Sawasaki
Good morning. There's a new Flow State T-shirt, which you can buy here while supplies last. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Yoshihiro
7/27/2023
7 : 4
Tortoise
Good morning. Today we're listening to Tortoise, a post-rock band from Chicago. We first recommended them back in November 2019. Like their tracks, the band itself took shape step by step through
7/26/2023
7 : 4
Ylia
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ylia, a Spanish producer and sound designer based in Málaga. As a DJ, Ylia's sets are fast-paced and ravey, but on her solo records since 2020, she's
7/25/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 187
Listen now (102 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with French multi-instrumentalist Akusmi, his Moondog-like track “Cogito.” Then we move into the usual ambient openers, this time from Luke
7/24/2023
7 : 4
Daryl Groetsch
Good morning. Today we're listening to Daryl Groetsch, an American ambient music producer based in Portland, Oregon. Since the early aughts, he's put out almost a hundred records, mostly under
7/21/2023
7 : 14
Andrea
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Andrea, an Italian electronic music producer from Turin. Andrea began his musical career as a
7/20/2023
7 : 4
Béla Fleck
Good morning. Today we're listening to Béla Fleck, an American banjo player from New York City. At 15 he was wowed by the fast-paced pluckings of bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs. Going on fifty
7/19/2023
7 : 4
Shida Shahabi (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Shida Shahabi, a pianist and composer based in Stockholm. We previously recommended her in October. Shahabi was born in Sweden to Iranian parents who had fled
7/18/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 186
Listen now (116 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with a David Byrne track from 1991 off a lesser-known solo album called The Forest, recently cited as inspiration by comedian John Mulaney. We
7/17/2023
7 : 4
Davi Music (Flow State Records 008)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Davi Music, a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. His new album, which came out on Friday, is the eighth LP from Flow State Records. Good Morning
7/16/2023
14 : 15
Kate Liu
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kate Liu, a Singaporean American classical pianist. Thanks to Max for the recommendation. Born in 1994, Liu took up piano at age 4 and was promptly recognized
7/16/2023
13 : 44
Home
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Home, a synthwave project from producer and synth enthusiast Randy Goffe. Growing up in Punta
7/11/2023
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 185
Listen now (109 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with the premiere of the newest Flow State Records release, Good Morning Deja Vu by Davi Music, which comes out this Friday. We'll be
7/10/2023
7 : 4
Hideyuki Hashimoto
Good morning. Today we're listening to Hideyuki Hashimoto, a Japanese pianist from Osaka. Now based in Kagawa, Hashimoto started off his piano career by improvising. “I started to improvise, not
7/7/2023
7 : 4
Al Wootton
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Al Wootton, an electronic music producer from South London. In 2009 he started putting out
7/6/2023
7 : 4
Amanda Whiting
Good morning. Today we're listening to Amanda Whiting, a Welsh harpist. She studied classical harp for years before switching to jazz, channeling her two major influences Dorothy Ashby and Alice
7/5/2023
7 : 4
Hayden Pedigo
Good morning. Today we're listening to Hayden Pedigo, an American guitarist and producer from Amarillo, Texas. He was raised there by his truck-stop preacher father, who homeschooled him. Pedigo
6/30/2023
7 : 4
Space
Good morning. We're off Monday and Tuesday – back on Wednesday. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Space, a French disco-electronic band.
6/29/2023
7 : 4
Tarentel
Good morning. Today we're listening to Tarentel, a post-rock band from San Francisco. Thanks to Ilsa Jerome for the recommendation. In 1995, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Danny Grody started recording