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2/17/2022
8 : 4
Jeff Parker
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jeff Parker, an American guitarist and composer based in Los Angeles. Parker grew up in Virginia and attended the Berklee College of Music. He played guitar
2/16/2022
8 : 4
Jeanne Demessieux
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jeanne Demessieux, a French organist and composer. Born in 1921 and identified quickly as a musical prodigy, Demessieux entered the Paris Conservatoire at age
2/14/2022
8 : 4
GAS
Good morning. Today we're listening to GAS, a German electronic producer based in Cologne. We first featured him back in 2019. In the '90s he and his brother helped form the minimal techno
2/11/2022
8 : 4
Foans
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're again listening to Foans, the electronic music project from Colorado-based Andrew Dahabrah. He's put
2/10/2022
8 : 24
Zakir Hussain
Good morning. Today we're listening to Zakir Hussain, an Indian drummer based in San Francisco. Hussain gained international renown for his virtuosity with the tabla, the primary percussion
2/9/2022
8 : 4
Olivia Belli
Good morning. Today we're listening to Olivia Belli, an Italian pianist and composer based in Marche. (Thanks Headphone Commute.) When Belli was one she received a toy piano. She studied classical
2/7/2022
8 : 4
Huerco S.
Good morning. Today we're listening to Huerco S., an ambient/electronic producer based in Kansas. After putting out a few techno/ambient records, he released For Those Of You Who Have Never… in
2/4/2022
8 : 4
Boards of Canada
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something slightly more upbeat. We're listening to Boards of Canada, a Scottish electronic duo. We first recommended them almost three years
2/2/2022
8 : 4
Arushi Jain
Good morning. Today we're listening to Arushi Jain, an ambient composer and vocalist from Delhi by way of San Francisco. On Jain's 2021 record, Under the Lilac Sky, her reverberant incantations
1/31/2022
8 : 4
Music for Sleep / Andrea Porcu
Good morning. Today we're listening to Music for Sleep, an ambient project from producer Andrea Porcu. Music for Sleep has put out six LPs since 2019, prolific output from a project nominally about
1/28/2022
8 : 4
East End Dubs
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're playing East End Dubs, an English dance music producer and DJ. His originals are 6+ minute-long, heavily
1/27/2022
8 : 4
Nathan Salsburg
Good morning. Today we're listening to Nathan Salsburg, a guitarist and composer based in Louisville, Kentucky. Salsburg's fingerstyle acoustic performance has accompanied artists like Weather
1/26/2022
8 : 4
Ludovico Einaudi
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ludovico Einaudi, an Italian pianist and composer. This is our second time recommending Einaudi, whom Rachael originally brought to our attention.
1/24/2022
8 : 4
Jeannine Schulz
Good morning. Today we're listening to Jeannine Schulz, an ambient/electronic musician based in Hamburg, Germany. Typically our Monday recommendation is of ambient that's on the quieter side,
1/21/2022
8 : 4
Robag Wruhme
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Robag Wruhme, a German techno producer and DJ from Apolda. His label, Pampa, claims he “
1/20/2022
8 : 4
Los Indios Tabajaras
Good morning. Today we're listening to Los Indios Tabajaras, two Brazilian brothers who both played guitar. The brothers, indigenous Tabajara from the northeastern state of Ceará, set off for Rio
1/19/2022
8 : 4
Lucette Bourdin
Good morning. Today we're listening to Lucette Bourdin, a French-born ambient composer. Bourdin began releasing ambient records in 2005, and would end up releasing 25 albums before passing away in
1/17/2022
8 : 4
Hollie Kenniff
Good morning. Today we're listening to Hollie Kenniff, a Canadian-American electronic musician and multi-instrumentalist. Her record from last summer, The Quiet Drift, is sweetly meditative,
1/14/2022
8 : 4
Ann Clue
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Ann Clue, a German techno producer and DJ. Clue plays minimal techno, with a pulsing bass
1/13/2022
15 : 31
Gardener
Today we have a guest recommendation from Genevieve, a design strategist based in Los Angeles. Gardener, the moniker for Dash Lewis' synth stylings, has been weaving intricate stratified “immersive