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2/7/2023
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Flow State Episode 164
Today's episode opens with ambient/classical pieces from Huerco S., Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher, Susumu Yokota, and the Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd. There's an experimental track from
2/6/2023
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Dobrawa Czocher
Good morning. Today we're listening to Dobrawa Czocher, a Polish cellist and composer. She picked up the cello at age 7 and went on to study the instrument at Chopin University of Music in Warsaw
2/3/2023
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Susumu Yokota
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Susumu Yokota, a Japanese electronic music producer and DJ from Toyama. Born in 1961, he
2/2/2023
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Sadao Watanabe
Good morning. Today we're listening to Sadao Watanabe, a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist from Utsunomiya who turned 90 yesterday. Growing up in postwar Japan he was exposed to jazz at an
2/1/2023
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Philip Glass
Good morning. Today we're listening to Philip Glass, an American composer and pianist from Baltimore. Born in 1937, Glass studied composition at Juilliard and collected avant-garde influences
1/31/2023
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Flow State Episode 163
Listen now (106 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with two Harold Budd tracks from the '80s. Then there are some instrumentals from SUSS, Brian Green, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. We play some
1/30/2023
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SUSS
Good morning. Today we're listening to SUSS, an ambient country band based in New York City. We've featured them twice before. A trio of country musicians who gravitated toward ambient music in
1/27/2023
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Strategy
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Strategy, the electronic music moniker of Portland's own Paul Dickow. “For more than 20
1/26/2023
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Mac DeMarco
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mac DeMarco, a Canadian guitarist and singer who grew up in Edmonton. In junior high school, he started guitar lessons with his grandmother, eventually moving
1/25/2023
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Kali Malone
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kali Malone, a Colorado-born composer based in Stockholm. We first recommended her in 2019. Her new record, Does Spring Hide Its Joy, came out last Friday,
1/24/2023
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Flow State Episode 162
Listen now (106 min) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with an Oliver Coates composition from the Aftersun soundtrack. It's followed by ambient pieces from Mette Henriette, Tujiko Noriko, and
1/23/2023
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Good morning. Every recommendation this week includes a release from this month. 2023 is off to a good start. Today we're listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese pianist and composer from Tokyo.
1/20/2023
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Harrison BDP
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbęat. Today we're listening to Harrison BDP, a Welsh electronic music producer. Since 2015 Harrison's been producing
1/20/2023
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Hiroko Ishimoto
Good morning. Today we're listening to Hiroko Ishimoto, a Japanese pianist based in Budapest. Ishimoto grew up in Sapporo and studied at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music as well as Juilliard
1/20/2023
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Jeff Beck
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jeff Beck, an English guitarist from Wallington. At age six, he heard a recording of Les Paul playing “How High the Moon” and decided he'd play electric
1/20/2023
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Amon Tobin
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Amon Tobin, a Brazilian electronic music producer. Born in 1972, Tobin started putting out
1/20/2023
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Flow State Episode 161
Listen now (100 min) | Good morning. Today's subscriber mix opens with new ambient tracks from Brendan Eder Ensemble, Almanacs, and Yara Asmar. Then we play some instrumentals from Molly Lewis (for
1/20/2023
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Good morning. Today we're listening to Penguin Cafe Orchestra, a band formed by English guitarist Simon Jeffes. Born in Sussex in 1949, Jeffes was inspired early on by folk music and the minimalism
1/20/2023
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Wynton Kelly
Good morning. Today we're listening to Wynton Kelly, a jazz pianist and composer from Brooklyn. Born in 1931, Kelly first laid down a piano recording at age 16 on a track called “Cornbread,” which
1/10/2023
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Flow State Episode 160 (Subscribers only)
Good morning. We just sent out our weekly two-hour focus mix to paying subscribers. Our Tuesday mixes collect tracks that we've been working to recently and recommendations from our readers. To get