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6/28/2024
7 : 4
Beta Librae
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Beta Librae, an electronic music producer and DJ originally from Kansas and now based in
6/27/2024
7 : 4
Mitsuko Uchida
Good morning. Today we're listening to Mitsuko Uchida, a Japanese pianist and conductor originally from Atami. She was raised there and then Vienna, where she moved when she was 12, and attended
6/26/2024
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Henrik Lindstrand
Good morning. Today we're listening to Henrik Lindstrand, a Swedish pianist and composer based in Copenhagen. We originally recommended his music five years ago. He first played the keys on his
6/25/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 233
Listen now (111 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix is all longform ambient pieces. It starts with Seconds' 11-minute drone track “Flat Ontology.” Then we play long ambient pieces both classic
6/24/2024
7 : 4
Taylor Deupree (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Taylor Deupree, an American ambient musician based in upstate New York. We first recommended his music back in 2019. Deupree began making electronic music in
6/21/2024
7 : 4
µ-Ziq
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to µ-Ziq, an electronic music project from Englishman Mike Paradinas. We first recommended his
6/20/2024
7 : 4
Kalia Vandever (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Kalia Vandever, a trombonist and bandleader based in Brooklyn. She grew up in Los Angeles, started playing trombone at age eight, and went on to study music
6/19/2024
7 : 14
George Walker
Good morning. Today we're listening to George Walker, an American pianist and composer from Washington, DC Born in 1922, he started playing piano at age five, and studied at the Curtis Institute of
6/18/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 232
Listen now (94 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix ebbs and flows rather than gradually building. It opens with an instrumental from Ezra Feinberg, followed by a new electronic collaboration between
6/17/2024
7 : 4
Chihei Hatakeyama
Good morning. Today we're listening to Chihei Hatakeyama, a Japanese ambient music composer based in Tokyo. We've featured him three times before, most recently in 2021. Since then the prolific
6/14/2024
7 : 4
Bodhi
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Bodhi, a Welsh electronic duo from Cardiff. They've been in our dance music rotation for
6/13/2024
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Marina Barinova
Good morning. Today we're listening to Marina Barinova, a Ukrainian pianist and composer from Kharkiv. She started playing piano at age five and moved to Hanover (where she currently resides) at 19
6/13/2024
7 : 59
Ezra Feinberg (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ezra Feinberg, an American guitarist and composer based in upstate New York. We previously recommended Feinberg back in 2020. We're playing his new album
6/11/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 231
Listen now (85 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with an ambient trombone piece by Kalia Vandever. Then there some more experimental instrumentals from NUG, Penelope Trappes (who also ends
6/10/2024
7 : 4
Ai Yamamoto
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ai Yamamoto, a Japanese electronic music producer based in Melbourne, Australia. We discovered her music via marine eyes' latest women of ambient mix.
6/7/2024
7 : 4
K-Hand
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to K-Hand, an electronic musician and DJ from Detroit. Born in 1964, she played the drums
6/6/2024
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Oren Ambarchi (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to Oren Ambarchi, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Sydney. We previously recommended his music about two years ago. As he recounts below, his first
6/4/2024
7 : 4
Flow State Episode 230
Listen now (103 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with ambient tracks from Hatsü and Manuel Göttsching. We move into contemporary classical pieces by Elori Saxl, Éliane Radigue, and Sophia
6/3/2024
12 : 54
Martyn (Interview)
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Martyn, an electronic music producer from The Netherlands now based in Virginia. His latest
6/3/2024
10 : 4
The Seven Fields of Aphelion
Good morning. Today we're listening to The Seven Fields of Aphelion, an ambient music project from keyboardist and composer Maureen “Maux” Boyle. We found her music via marine eyes's women of