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11/7/2022
8 : 4
Corntuth (Flow State Records 006)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Corntuth, a Brooklyn-based ambient music composer. Corntuth's latest record, Letters to My Robot Son, is the third LP they've put out on Flow State
11/4/2022
7 : 4
Ciel
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Ciel, a producer and DJ born in Xi'an and based in Toronto. She got into electronic /
11/3/2022
7 : 4
Dizzy Reece
Good morning. Today we're listening to Dizzy Reece, a Jamaican jazz trumpeter from Kingston. Born in 1931, Reece switched from saxophone to trumpet at age 14, and at 16 moved to London to pursue
11/2/2022
7 : 4
Carl Stone
Good morning. Today we're listening to Carl Stone, an experimental composer from Los Angeles. We first recommended him in early 2020. Stone began experimenting with computer music in the '80s,
10/31/2022
7 : 4
Kuniyuki Takahashi
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kuniyuki Takahashi, a Japanese composer, producer, and sound engineer. We first recommended him in 2019. The record label Music from Memory published his
10/28/2022
7 : 4
Kornél Kovács
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Kornél Kovács, a Swedish-Hungarian electronic music producer and DJ. We first recommended him
10/27/2022
7 : 4
The Mermen
Good morning. Today we're listening to The Mermen, a band formed in San Francisco in 1989. The trio is Jim Thomas on guitar, Jennifer Burnes on bass, and Martyn Jones on drums. Their music is
10/26/2022
7 : 4
Ludwig van Beethoven
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer and pianist. Born in 1770, Beethoven came from a long line of musicians. He began studying piano at age 5, suffering
10/24/2022
7 : 4
Philip Jeck
Good morning. Today we're listening to Philip Jeck, an experimental British composer. Born in 1952, Jeck originally trained as a visual artist at Dartington College of Arts. In the '80s Jeck
10/21/2022
7 : 4
Daphni
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Daphni, a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ from Ontario. Daphni, who also records as
10/20/2022
7 : 4
Esquivel!
Good morning. Today we're listening to Esquivel!, a Mexican pianist and composer from Tampico by way of Mexico City. Juan García Esquivel was a self-taught musician from a young age. At age 6, his
10/19/2022
7 : 4
Atli Örvarsson
Good morning. Today we're listening to Atli Örvarsson, an Icelandic pianist and composer from Akureyri. Örvarsson grew up listening to a wide range of music and playing a bunch of instruments - his
10/17/2022
7 : 4
Sawako
Good morning. Today we're listening to Sawako, a Japanese ambient producer from Nagoya. As a child, Sawako learned classical piano and at Keio University studied environmental and information
10/14/2022
7 : 4
The Pine Walk Collection
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to The Pine Walk Collection, recordings of DJ sets performed on Fire Island in the '80s and
10/13/2022
7 : 4
Gábor Szabó
Good morning. Today we're listening to Gábor Szabó, a Hungarian guitarist. We first recommended him in early 2020. Szabó fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and landed in California. In his own
10/12/2022
14 : 29
Shida Shahabi
Good morning. Today we're listening to Shida Shahabi, a pianist and composer based in Stockholm. Shahabi was born in Sweden to Iranian parents who had fled the war with Iraq. Her early musical
10/7/2022
7 : 4
Precipitation
Good morning. We'll be off on Monday. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Precipitation, an electronic music producer based in Tokyo. Their
10/6/2022
7 : 4
Reuben Wilson
Good morning. Today we're listening to Reuben Wilson, a jazz organist from Oklahoma by way of Los Angeles. Wilson started out playing the piano but then gravitated toward organ, and by the late
10/5/2022
7 : 4
Marconi Union
Good morning. Today we're listening to Marconi Union, an English trio that makes ambient music. We first recommended them in December 2019. The band got started after two of the members met in a
10/3/2022
7 : 4
Picnic
Good morning. Today we're listening to Picnic, an ambient duo whose members hail from Kansas City and Melbourne. We first recommended them last November. Their airy tracks feature languid