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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
1/30/2023 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
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
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
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
2/13/2023 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
2/9/2023 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
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
6/12/2023 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
6/12/2023 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
6/12/2023 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