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9/15/2022
7 : 4
Herbie Hancock
Good morning. Today we're listening to Herbie Hancock, an American pianist and composer. It's been a couple years since we last recommended him. Born and raised in Chicago, Hancock started his
9/15/2022
0 : 55
Time Wharp
Good morning. Today we're listening to Time Wharp, a New York based electronic music producer. Sometimes ambient / instrumental music can simply be ignorable and not always interesting. Time
9/12/2022
7 : 4
Fross
Good morning. Today we're listening to Fross, a Costa Rican ambient music producer from Cartago. Fross creates vast soundscapes that envelop the listener in an atmosphere of contemplation. The
9/9/2022
7 : 4
Casiopea
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Casiopea, a Japanese jazz fusion band. The group formed in 1976 and is still around, its
9/8/2022
7 : 14
Cannonball Adderley
Good morning. Today we're listening to Cannonball Adderley, an American jazz saxophonist from Florida. Born in 1928, Adderley taught high school band in Fort Lauderdale before moving to New York in
9/7/2022
7 : 4
Rachika Nayar
Good morning. Today we're listening to Rachika Nayar, a composer and producer based in Brooklyn. We first featured Nayar about a year ago. Her signature style is to record guitar and then, as she
9/5/2022
7 : 4
Moby
Good morning. Today we're listening to Moby, a producer, songwriter, and DJ from Connecticut. After dropping out of college, he moved to New York City where he was exposed to dance and punk music.
9/2/2022
7 : 4
Chloe Lula
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Chloe Lula, a techno producer and DJ born in San Francisco and raised in Berlin. In her
9/1/2022
7 : 4
Valentina Magaletti
Good morning. Today we're listening to Valentina Magaletti, an Italian percussionist and composer based in London. Magaletti has collaborated with scores of indie artists such as Nico Jaar, Irmin
8/31/2022
7 : 4
Michel Banabila (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Michel Banabila, a Dutch sound artist and composer based in Rotterdam. Since 1983 Banabila has put out sui generis ambient / electronic music, lots of which
8/29/2022
7 : 4
Felbm
Good morning. Today we're listening to Felbm, a Dutch multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Utrecht. From 2018 to 2020, Felbm put out four installments of his Tape series, consisting of laid-
8/26/2022
7 : 4
Perfume Advert
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Perfume Advert, an electronic music duo from Middlesbrough, England. Between 2013 and 2016
8/25/2022
7 : 4
Lalo Schifrin
Good morning. Today we're listening to Lalo Schifrin, an Argentinian pianist and composer. Schifrin grew up in Buenos Aires and at 20 won a piano scholarship to the Conservatoire de Paris. His
8/24/2022
7 : 4
Colleen
Good morning. Today we're listening to Colleen, the solo project of French musician Cécile Schott. We first featured Colleen back in May 2019 via a guest recommendation. Over the past two decades
8/22/2022
7 : 4
Erland Cooper
Good morning. Today we're listening to Erland Cooper, a Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer. Since 2010 Cooper has put out music with bands Magnetic North and Erland & The Carnival, but
8/19/2022
7 : 4
Prins Thomas
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Prins Thomas, a Norwegian producer and DJ. Thomas founded Nordic disco alongside Todd Terje
8/18/2022
7 : 4
Mansur Brown
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mansur Brown, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from London. Brown's primary instrument is the guitar, which he can shred. On his original works, he
8/17/2022
7 : 4
Yumiko Morioka
Good morning. Today we're listening to Yumiko Morioka, a Japanese pianist and composer. Morioka studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the '70s, finding special inspiration
8/15/2022
7 : 4
Jon Hassell
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jon Hassell, an American trumpet player and composer from Memphis. Hassell studied music composition in New York and Cologne, learning from avant-garde
8/12/2022
7 : 4
Shinichi Atobe
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Shinichi Atobe, a Japanese electronic producer. We first featured Atobe back in July 2020.