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Todd Tobias creates ambient vignettes; short excursions into a mysterious sound dominated by multiple guitars and manipulated samples. He’s worked extensively with the rock band, Guided by Voices, but makes an ambient sound on his own. He talks about it on Echoes.
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Named for a theater in David Lynch’s film, “Mulholland Drive”, Silencio plays music inspired by Lynch films and Angelo Badalamenti’s scores for them. We talk to the band about their evocative and haunting sound.
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Twilight Archive is a trio of musicians from Southern California exploring an ambient jazz sound. They get together to make a dark, swampy ambient jazz, channeling Miles Davis through Jon Hassell Fourth-World grooves and electronica modes. They talk about their evolution and new album, Mood Chain.
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Jean-Michel Jarre is steeped in the lineage of electronic music. On his new album he collaborates with contemporaries like Tangerine Dream, electronica artists M83, Moby, Massive Attack and Air and techno artist Armin Van Buren.
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The English duo Anima is a band steeped in shamanic mysticism, psychedelic plants and electronic music. They’ve lived in the jungles in the Amazon and partaken in local rituals, which they translate into detailed electronic landscapes.
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Steven Halpern released his first album of electric piano modalities, Spectrum Suite, in 1975. That makes 2015 his 40th anniversary as a recording artist. We talk to Halpern about the evolution of his music from the “anti-frantic alternative” to his concepts of sound healing.
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Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who has collaborated with the band Hammock, but has created his own approach to ambient chamber music. We walk through the fields of Matt Kidd’s Slow Meadow.
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Michael Spriggs is an A-list session guitarist in Music City who has played on, and written, dozens of country hits. But when he goes home, he plugs in to a different sound, turning country into Ambient Americana, with touches of Celtic music.
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Chad Kettering started out as a classical trumpet player, but something happened on the way to the concert hall. He discovered synthesizers and started creating an orchestral electronic sound that’s part progressive rock and part New Age.
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Árstíðir is a band out of Iceland with an organic, acoustic sound that has roots in the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Playing guitars, violin, piano and cello, these musicians create introspective songs on their latest album, Hvel.