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3/12/2024
7 : 14
Flow State Episode 218 (2023 Film Special)
Listen now (119 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix consists entirely of film scores from 2023. We play music from Poor Things (catch our interview with composer Jerskin Fendrix), Asteroid City,
3/11/2024
7 : 24
JWPaton (Interview)
Good morning. Today we're listening to JWPaton, a Yuin-Australian composer and sound designer. He grew up listening to noise and metal, and was inspired to treat sound as music by artists like
3/8/2024
8 : 24
Ben Keegan
Today we have a guest recommendation from Drew Lebowitz, an electrical engineer by day and a jazz pianist by night based in Portland, OR. He draws rhythmic inspiration from 12 years living between
3/7/2024
8 : 4
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Good morning. Today we're listening to Antônio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian composer, pianist, and guitarist. Considered a co-creator of bossanova music, Jobim wrote many of that genre's standards
3/6/2024
8 : 4
Nils Frahm
Good morning. Today we're listening to Nils Frahm, a German pianist and composer based in Berlin. We've recommended him four times before this. Born in Hamburg in 1982, he grew up studying
3/5/2024
8 : 4
Flow State Episode 217
Listen now (107 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix opens with an ambient track from JWPaton, followed by piano instrumentals from Nils Frahm (a new release) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (from his final
3/4/2024
8 : 14
Terry Riley
Good morning. Today we're listening to Terry Riley, an American composer and keyboardist. We last featured him in 2019, so we're due. Born in 1935 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Riley studied
3/1/2024
8 : 14
Pizza Hotline
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Pizza Hotline, an electronic music producer based in London. Guy does “liquid” DnB tunes with
2/29/2024
8 : 4
Cedar Walton
Good morning. Today we're listening to Cedar Walton, an American jazz pianist from Dallas, Texas. His mother taught him piano young; as a young adult he played gigs in New Orleans, Denver, and
2/28/2024
8 : 14
Maya Shenfield
Good morning. Today we're listening to Maya Shenfield, a composer based in Berlin. She originally studied classical guitar, and upon moving to Berlin was exposed to local punk and experimental
2/27/2024
8 : 4
Flow State Episode 216
Listen now (104 mins) | Good morning. Today's mix features many artists who are upcoming Flow State recommendations. Ariel Kalma opens the mix and continues it in a couple places. Then there's
2/26/2024
8 : 14
Ariel Kalma
Good morning. Today we're listening to Ariel Kalma, a French composer and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Paris, he started playing woodwinds at a young age, and after college played sax and flute
2/23/2024
8 : 14
Vicky Chow
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something which, for piano week, is relatively more upbeat. Today we're listening to Vicky Chow, Hong Kong-Canadian pianist originally from
2/22/2024
8 : 4
Alexander Scriabin
Today we have a piano week guest recommendation from Michael Cirigliano II, an independent writer and arts marketer. His newsletter, Shades of Blue, explores the human stories behind classical
2/21/2024
8 : 14
Belle Chen (Interview)
Good morning. We're doing all piano music this week. Today we're listening to Belle Chen, an Australian-Taiwanese pianist and producer. We first recommended her almost four years ago. She was
2/20/2024
8 : 4
Flow State Episode 215
Listen now (118 mins) | Good morning. We're doing all piano music this week. Today's mix collects piano recordings that came out over the past year or so. There are classical pieces by Bach,
2/19/2024
8 : 4
Philip Glass
Good morning. We're doing all piano music this week. Today we're listening to Philip Glass, an American composer from Baltimore. We've recommended Glass twice before. Glass turned 87 a few
2/19/2024
2 : 54
Pyur
Good morning. Today we're listening to Pyur, a German electronic music producer based in Berlin. Thanks to Stephan Kunze at Zen Sounds for surfacing her work. Born in Munich, her mother played
2/19/2024
2 : 24
Fabiano do Nascimento
Good morning. Today we're listening to Fabiano do Nascimento, a Brazilian guitarist from Rio de Janeiro. He picked up piano at a very young age but fell in love with the guitar at 10. He moved to
2/19/2024
2 : 4
Daisuke Tanabe
Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Daisuke Tanabe, a Japanese electronic music producer. Born in Hyōgo Prefecture and mostly