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1/20/2023 8:04:26 AM

Harrison BDP

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbęat. Today we're listening to Harrison BDP, a Welsh electronic music producer. Since 2015 Harrison's been producing
1/20/2023 7:14:46 AM

Hiroko Ishimoto

Good morning. Today we're listening to Hiroko Ishimoto, a Japanese pianist based in Budapest. Ishimoto grew up in Sapporo and studied at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music as well as Juilliard
1/20/2023 6:04:53 AM

Jeff Beck

Good morning. Today we're listening to Jeff Beck, an English guitarist from Wallington. At age six, he heard a recording of Les Paul playing “How High the Moon” and decided he'd play electric
1/20/2023 5:14:52 AM

Amon Tobin

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Amon Tobin, a Brazilian electronic music producer. Born in 1972, Tobin started putting out
1/23/2023 8:14:29 AM

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Good morning. Every recommendation this week includes a release from this month. 2023 is off to a good start. Today we're listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese pianist and composer from Tokyo.
1/25/2023 8:14:29 AM

Kali Malone

Good morning. Today we're listening to Kali Malone, a Colorado-born composer based in Stockholm. We first recommended her in 2019. Her new record, Does Spring Hide Its Joy, came out last Friday,
1/26/2023 8:04:27 AM

Mac DeMarco

Good morning. Today we're listening to Mac DeMarco, a Canadian guitarist and singer who grew up in Edmonton. In junior high school, he started guitar lessons with his grandmother, eventually moving
1/27/2023 1:04:30 PM

Strategy

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Strategy, the electronic music moniker of Portland's own Paul Dickow. “For more than 20
1/20/2023 3:25:50 AM

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Good morning. Today we're listening to Penguin Cafe Orchestra, a band formed by English guitarist Simon Jeffes. Born in Sussex in 1949, Jeffes was inspired early on by folk music and the minimalism
1/20/2023 3:05:14 AM

Wynton Kelly

Good morning. Today we're listening to Wynton Kelly, a jazz pianist and composer from Brooklyn. Born in 1931, Kelly first laid down a piano recording at age 16 on a track called “Cornbread,” which
1/30/2023 8:04:26 AM

SUSS

Good morning. Today we're listening to SUSS, an ambient country band based in New York City. We've featured them twice before. A trio of country musicians who gravitated toward ambient music in
1/10/2023 8:04:27 AM

Flow State Episode 160 (Subscribers only)

Good morning. We just sent out our weekly two-hour focus mix to paying subscribers. Our Tuesday mixes collect tracks that we've been working to recently and recommendations from our readers. To get
2/1/2023 8:04:26 AM

Philip Glass

Good morning. Today we're listening to Philip Glass, an American composer and pianist from Baltimore. Born in 1937, Glass studied composition at Juilliard and collected avant-garde influences
1/9/2023 8:14:26 AM

Rosales

Good morning. Today we're listening to Rosales, an ambient project from Brighton's Ian Hawgood and Toronto's Brad Deschamps. Thanks to A Closer Listen for surfacing this rec. Hawgood and
2/2/2023 8:04:29 AM

Sadao Watanabe

Good morning. Today we're listening to Sadao Watanabe, a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist from Utsunomiya who turned 90 yesterday. Growing up in postwar Japan he was exposed to jazz at an
2/3/2023 8:04:27 AM

Susumu Yokota

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Susumu Yokota, a Japanese electronic music producer and DJ from Toyama. Born in 1961, he
1/6/2023 8:04:41 AM

Qrion

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Qrion, a Japanese dance music producer and DJ from Sapporo. Her father, a concert pianist,
1/5/2023 8:04:27 AM

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

Good morning. Today we're listening to the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, a Seattle-based soul-jazz group founded in 2015. Thanks to Ted Gioia for the tip. The trio is led by self-taught organist Delvon
1/4/2023 8:04:27 AM

Moby

Good morning. Today we're listening to Moby, an electronic music producer from Connecticut. We continue to ring in the new year with Moby's Jan 1 release, Ambient 23, a two-and-a-half-hour
2/6/2023 8:04:27 AM

Dobrawa Czocher

Good morning. Today we're listening to Dobrawa Czocher, a Polish cellist and composer. She picked up the cello at age 7 and went on to study the instrument at Chopin University of Music in Warsaw
2/8/2023 8:04:43 AM

Antonín Dvořák

Good morning. Today we're listening to Antonín Dvořák, a Czech composer from just outside Prague. Born in 1841 to a zither-playing father, Dvořák exhibited prodigious talent at a young age. His
2/20/2023 8:04:27 AM

Steve Roach

Good morning. Today we're listening to Steve Roach, an American composer from southern California. We previously featured Roach in 2019. In the '70s, Roach was inspired by the desert landscapes
2/17/2023 8:25:10 AM

sunn O)))

Good morning. Today we're listening to sunn O))), a metal band formed in Seattle in 1998. The band is named after the logo of the Sunn amplifier brand (see below). They specialize in “minimal metal
2/22/2023 8:04:27 AM

Glenn Gould

Good morning. Today we're listening to Glenn Gould, a Canadian classical pianist from Toronto. Born in 1932, Gould exhibited prodigious talent very early, learning to read music before words and
2/17/2023 8:05:13 AM

Brad Mehldau

Good morning. Today we're listening to Brad Mehldau, an American jazz pianist from Florida. We've featured him twice before. Mehldau was born in 1970 and grew up in Florida and Connecticut,
2/23/2023 8:04:26 AM

Pat Metheny

Good morning. Today we're listening to Pat Metheny, an American guitarist from Missouri. Born in 1954, he was inspired in the '60s by Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery, becoming a jazz guitar
2/17/2023 8:04:27 AM

Basic Channel

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Basic Channel, a German electronic duo founded in Berlin in 1993. We previously featured them
2/24/2023 8:04:39 AM

Bjørn Torske

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Bjørn Torske, a Norwegian house and techno producer. He grew up in northern Norway, a remote
2/13/2023 8:14:26 AM

Loscil

Good morning. Today we're listening to Loscil, a Canadian ambient musician from Vancouver. The name “Loscil” comes from the programming language Csound; it's the function that creates a looping
2/10/2023 8:04:26 AM

Aphex Twin

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Aphex Twin, an electronic musician from Cornwall, UK. Born in 1971, he got involved in the
2/27/2023 8:04:27 AM

Ekin Fil

Good morning. Today we're listening to Ekin Fil, a Turkish ambient producer and singer-songwriter from outside Istanbul. Fil started putting out music in 2008, and has had a “years-long run of
2/9/2023 8:04:26 AM

Rosinha de Valença

Good morning. Today we're listening to Rosinha de Valença, a Brazilian guitarist and composer. Born in 1941, Valença taught herself acoustic guitar by playing along with the radio, earning her
3/1/2023 8:15:04 AM

F.S. Blumm

Good morning. Today we're listening to FS Blumm, a German guitarist from Bremen. We discovered his music via Rick Rubin's conversation with Ezra Klein. Born in 1968, Blumm took up classical
3/2/2023 8:04:52 AM

Zhu Xiao-Mei

Good morning. Today we're listening to Zhu Xiao-Mei, a Chinese pianist from Shanghai. Born in 1949, Zhu started playing piano at age 3 and, exhibiting prodigy talent, was admitted to conservancy at
3/3/2023 8:04:32 AM

Lxury

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Lxury, an English dance music producer based in London. Lxury debuted in 2013 with the
3/6/2023 8:05:12 AM

Ali Akbar Khan

Good morning. Today we're listening to Ali Akbar Khan, an Indian sarod player from Maihar. Born in 1922, Khan was originally introduced to the sarod by his father, Allauddin, a strict teacher who
3/8/2023 8:04:27 AM

The Necks (Guest recommendation from SUSS)

Today we have a guest recommendation from SUSS, a trio based in NYC that plays ambient country music. Their new self-titled double album explores four sides of Americana landscapes from a city point of
3/9/2023 8:15:31 AM

Wayne Shorter

Good morning. Today we're listening to Wayne Shorter, an American saxophonist from Newark, NJ. Born in 1933, Shorter attended the pioneering Newark Arts High School and switched from clarinet to
3/10/2023 8:04:27 AM

Rei Harakami

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Rei Harakami, a Japanese electronic music producer from Hiroshima. Thank you Chad for the
3/20/2023 7:14:52 AM

Éliane Radigue

Good morning. Today we're listening to Éliane Radigue, a French electronic music composer from Paris. We've featured Radigue twice before. Radigue was born in 1932 and, inspired by musique
3/22/2023 7:04:26 AM

Hermanos Gutiérrez

Good morning. Today we're listening to Hermanos Gutiérrez, two guitar-playing brothers born in Ecuador and raised in Switzerland. Thank you Victor Torres for recommending this on our recent thread.
3/24/2023 7:04:27 AM

Jean-Michel Jarre

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Jean-Michel Jarre, a French electronic musician from Lyon. Born in 1948, Jarre started
3/16/2023 3:04:44 PM

Erik Hall

Good morning. Today we're listening to Erik Hall, a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Michigan. We previously recommended him in May 2020, when he released his solo recording of Music for
3/16/2023 2:55:30 PM

Khun Narin

Good morning. Today we're listening to Khun Narin, a psychedelic band from Phetchabun, Thailand. Narin's Electric Phin Band is named after the lead instrument, a three-stringed luted whose
3/13/2023 7:14:27 AM

Carter Burwell

Good morning. Today we're listening to Carter Burwell, an American composer from New York City. Burwell's first feature score was the Coen Brothers' debut: Blood Simple in 1984. Since then,
3/27/2023 7:04:26 AM

Snufmumriko

Good morning. Today we're listening to Snufmumriko, a Swedish ambient musician based in Gothenburg. There isn't much information available publicly about the artist. Since 2018, he's put
3/29/2023 7:04:26 AM

Bryozone

Good morning. Today we're listening to Bryozone, a Ukrainian bassist and electronic musician based in Odesa. She plays bass in the three-piece band Chillera, whom we featured a year ago. On her new
3/30/2023 2:54:30 PM

Lorenzo Morresi

Good morning. Today we're listening to Lorenzo Morresi, an Italian music producer and guitarist based in Milan. Growing up, Morresi fell in love with two disparate styles of music – dance music and
3/31/2023 7:04:27 AM

D. Tiffany

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to D. Tiffany, a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ from Vancouver. We first recommended
4/3/2023 7:04:27 AM

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Good morning. Today we're listening to and remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese composer and pianist from Tokyo. Sakamoto, whom we've featured four times before, passed away on Tuesday,
4/5/2023 7:14:51 AM

Nico Georis

Good morning. Today we're listening to Nico Georis, an American keyboardist and composer from California. Now based in Death Valley, Georis has played keyboards across a range of genres including
4/6/2023 7:04:27 AM

Branko Mataja

Today we have a guest recommendation from Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey, the erstwhile publisher of Trillium, whom you can follow on Twitter. Good morning. Today we're listening to the legendary
4/7/2023 7:04:27 AM

SidiRum

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to SidiRum, an Argentinian electronic music producer based in Buenos Aires. Since 2014, he's
4/10/2023 7:04:26 AM

North Americans

Good morning. Today we're listening to North Americans, an ambient country duo based in Los Angeles. We first featured them in 2021. The band consists of pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker and
4/21/2023 7:04:28 AM

Juan Atkins

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Juan Atkins, an electronic music producer and DJ from Michigan. In the 1980s, Atkins along
4/19/2023 7:34:55 AM

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Good morning. Today we're listening to and remembering Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian pianist and composer. Sister Guèbrou, whom we've featured twice before, passed away on March 25
4/19/2023 7:04:46 AM

Manzanita y Su Conjunto

Good morning. Today we're listening to Manzanita y Su Conjunto, a Peruvian band that formed in Lima in the late 1960s. Berardo 'Manzanita' Hernández, the band's leader, learned guitar
4/19/2023 7:04:27 AM

Alice Sara Ott

Good morning. Today we're listening to Alice Sara Ott, a German-Japanese classical pianist. We first featured her last June. Ott fell in love with the piano at age three while attending a concert
4/19/2023 6:25:30 AM

James Holden

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to James Holden, an English electronic music producer based in London. Holden grew up in
4/24/2023 7:04:26 AM

William Orbit

Good morning. Today we're listening to William Orbit, an English producer and keyboardist from Palmers Green outside London. We first recommended him back in 2020. Born in 1956, Orbit dropped out
4/19/2023 5:44:44 AM

Liquid Mind

Good morning. Today we're listening to Liquid Mind, an ambient music project from Los Angeles-based composer Chuck Wild. In the '70s, Chuck entered the music industry as a producer and
4/26/2023 7:14:32 AM

Golden Brown

Good morning. Today we're listening to Golden Brown, an instrumental music project from multi-instrumentalist Stefan Beck, who's based in Colorado. Beck combines guitars and synths to create
4/27/2023 7:04:58 AM

Scott Joplin

Good morning. Today we're listening to Scott Joplin, an American pianist and composer. Born in Texas circa 1868, Joplin grew up in a musical family and at a young age set out as an itinerant
4/28/2023 7:04:28 AM

Sasse

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Sasse, a Finnish electronic music producer based in Berlin. In the '90s, he was part of
5/1/2023 7:04:27 AM

Stars of the Lid

Good morning. Today we're listening to Stars of the Lid, an ambient duo from Austin, TX. Despite their being ambient canon, the last time we featured them was March 2019. Adam Wiltzie and Brian
5/3/2023 7:04:27 AM

Masahiro Takahashi

Good morning. Today we're listening to Masahiro Takahashi, a Japanese multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto. Takahashi grew up playing in punk bands and happened upon a Yamaha 4-track tape
5/4/2023 7:04:28 AM

Dif Juz

Good morning. Today we're listening to Dif Juz, an English post-punk band active in the 1980s. Thanks Ilsa Jerome for the recommendation. The band – David Curtis (guitar), Alan Curtis (guitar),
5/5/2023 7:04:27 AM

Siete Catorce

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Siete Catorce, a Mexican dance music producer and DJ based in Mexico City. He was born in
5/8/2023 7:07:37 AM

Metric System 1981

Good morning. Today we're listening to Metric System 1981, an ambient music project from German composer Michael Schacht. In the '80s, he was active in the electronic underground scene in
5/19/2023 7:04:27 AM

LTJ Bukem

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to LTJ Bukem, an English DJ and producer from Watford. Bukem, whose name comes from the “book
5/18/2023 7:05:08 AM

Kaki King

Good morning. Today we're listening to Kaki King, an American guitarist from Atlanta. We first featured King back in July 2019. King at a young age was interested in becoming a drummer, which
5/22/2023 7:04:27 AM

Eleh

Good morning. Today we're listening to Eleh, an American ambient musician. Pronounced “Ella,” Eleh uses modular synths to linger on single tones, stretching them out and blending them slowly. “The
5/17/2023 7:04:27 AM

Seconds (Flow State Records 007)

Good morning. Today we're listening to Seconds, an ambient artist based in Los Angeles. Their self-titled album just came out on Flow State Records. Seconds is mostly “kinetic ambient” pieces,
5/24/2023 7:04:48 AM

Adam Pacione

Good morning. Today we're listening to Adam Pacione, an ambient musician based in Fort Worth, TX. Born in 1971 in Detroit, he started making experimental music in the '90s using a Yamaha synth
5/15/2023 7:04:26 AM

Junya Nakano (Guest rec from Mac DeMarco)

Today we have a guest recommendation from Mac DeMarco, a Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose new album One Wayne G is out now. Hello Mac DeMarco here, I'd like to recommend
5/25/2023 7:04:27 AM

Martha Argerich

Good morning. Today we're listening to Martha Argerich, an Argentine classical pianist from Buenos Aires. Born in 1941, Argerich quickly exhibited precocity and began piano lessons at age 3. In
5/26/2023 7:05:10 AM

Space Ghost

Good morning. We're off on Monday. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Space Ghost, an electronic musician based in Oakland. He started
5/12/2023 7:35:24 AM

Sam Gendel

Good morning. Today we're listening to Sam Gendel, a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Los Angeles. We first featured him back in April 2021. Since 2017 Gendel has released over a dozen
5/12/2023 7:16:19 AM

Jack Wilkins

Good morning. Today we're listening to Jack Wilkins, an American jazz guitarist from New York. Born in 1944, he picked up guitar at age 13, inspired by Django Reinhardt and Johnny Smith. His first
5/12/2023 7:03:42 AM

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. In the '90s, he was
5/31/2023 7:04:48 AM

Billow Observatory

Good morning. Today we're listening to Billow Observatory, an ambient music duo made up of Jason Kolb of Detroit and Jonas Munk of Denmark. The pair record synth and guitar, and then pass those
6/1/2023 7:04:33 AM

Arun Ramamurthy & Trina Basu

Good morning. Today we're listening to Arun Ramamurthy and Trina Basu, Indian classical violinists based in New York City. Both musicians are inspired by traditional ragas as well as Western
6/2/2023 7:04:32 AM

Moodymann

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Moodymann, an American producer and DJ. We first featured him back in 2020. Moodymann came up
6/5/2023 7:04:38 AM

Imaginary Softwoods

Good morning. Today we're listening to Imaginary Softwoods, an ambient musician based in Cleveland, Ohio. We first recommended him in 2021. The man behind the ambient/electronic project is
6/20/2023 6:45:05 AM

Gary Burton

Good morning. Today we're listening to Gary Burton, an American vibraphonist from Indiana. Born in 1943, he taught himself marimba and vibraphone at age six. At the time, two mallets were the
6/20/2023 7:35:04 AM

Lavinia Meijer

Good morning. Today we're listening to Lavinia Meijer, a South Korea-born harpist from The Netherlands. She took up the harp at age 9 and enrolled at the Utrecht Conservatory at age 11. We're
6/21/2023 7:04:27 AM

Keith Jarrett

Good morning. Today we're listening to Keith Jarrett, an American pianist from Pennsylvania. He took up piano before his third birthday, and at age seven performed Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at a
6/20/2023 6:14:46 AM

Jeroen Search

Good morning. We're off on Monday. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Jeroen Search, a Dutch electronic music producer. In the '90s he
6/23/2023 7:05:26 AM

Squarepusher

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Squarepusher, an English electronic musician and bassist from Essex. We previously
6/26/2023 7:24:28 AM

Aarktica

Good morning. Today we're listening to Aarktica, a guitarist and ambient composer from New Jersey now based in Los Angeles. In the late '90s he enrolled at NYU to study music, and while
6/12/2023 7:04:26 AM

KMRU

Good morning. Today we're listening to KMRU, an electronic project from Kenyan producer Joseph Kamaru. We first recommended him in August 2020. Kamaru was born and raised in Nairobi. After gaining
6/12/2023 3:15:03 AM

ANNA

Good morning. Today we're listening to ANNA, a Brazilian electronic music producer and DJ. Her father owned a nightclub in Amparo outside of São Paulo, where she began to play records at the age of
6/28/2023 7:04:28 AM

Yuja Wang

Good morning. Today we're listening to Yuja Wang, a Chinese classical pianist based in New York City. Born in Beijing in 1987, she took up piano at age six, began study at the Central Conservatory
6/12/2023 2:44:58 AM

Jackie Davis

Good morning. Today we're listening to Jackie Davis, an American jazz organist from Jacksonville, Florida. Born in 1920 to a musical family, Davis taught himself to play on his grandmother's
6/29/2023 7:04:29 AM

Tarentel

Good morning. Today we're listening to Tarentel, a post-rock band from San Francisco. Thanks to Ilsa Jerome for the recommendation. In 1995, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Danny Grody started recording
6/12/2023 2:26:53 AM

Don Muro

Good morning. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Don Muro, an American synthesist and guitarist. Born circa 1950, Muro was inspired early on
6/30/2023 7:04:47 AM

Space

Good morning. We're off Monday and Tuesday – back on Wednesday. It's Friday so we're listening to something more upbeat. Today we're listening to Space, a French disco-electronic band.