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Resavoir is a Chicago-based jazz collective. On their debut album Resavoir from 2019 they performed a selection of compositions which grew out of the home recording experiments of the group's producer/arranger, Will Miller. The other members of the group include Akenya Seymour, Lane Beckstrom, Irvin Pierce, Jeremy Cunningham, Peter Manheim, and more Read more on Last.fm

London-based keyboardist, composer, bandleader, and DJ, Greg Foat is a musician completely of his time and somehow beyond it. His highly original "non-contemporary jazz" utilizes conventional instruments and an exotic array of unorthodox ones, including harpsichord, tubular bells, and a 15-piece choir. Foat's music relies heavily on inspirations from library and soundtrack music, global folk traditions, psychedelia, hymnody, ambient music, and '60s and '70s pop, soul, blues, and more. Read more on Last.fm

BADBADNOTGOOD (abbreviated as BBNG) is (formerly) pianist Matt Tavares, saxophonist Leland Whitty, bassist Chester Stone Hansen and drummer Alex Sowinski. The original trio (Tavares, Hansen and Sowinski) met at Humber College in Toronto, Canada and bonded over their mutual musical interests - OFWGKTA, Gucci Mane, and Waka Flocka Flame. BADBADNOTGOOD released their first two albums in 2011 and 2012, both for free from their official Bandcamp. Read more on Last.fm

Experimental guitarist Roy Montgomery was born in London but raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, forming his first band, the teen garage combo the Psychedeliks, in 1971. After serving out the remainder of the decade in similarly obscure outfits including Compulsory Fun and Murder Strikes Pink, he co-founded the seminal Kiwi post-punk trio the Pin Group in late 1980; their debut single, "Ambivalence," was also the first record ever issued on the now-legendary indie label Flying Nun Read more on Last.fm

This duet recording by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny was long-awaited by fans. After years of hinting at such collaboration, the two Missourians finally found the time, and the songs, to create a set of unforgettable aural landscapes. In 1996 Charlie Haden collaborated on a duet with Pat Metheny on the guitar, exploring the music that influenced them in their childhood experiences in Missouri with what they call Americana music. This collaboration Read more on Last.fm

Eluvium is the recording project of Matthew Robert Cooper, a Portland-based musician and composer whose work is a mesmerizing blend of ambience, electronics, classical piano, drone, shoegaze, and minimalism. Since 2003 Cooper's output (including six full-length albums) has been primarily released by New York City label Temporary Residence Limited. He has released music under his birth name and as Martin Eden, recorded in duos Inventions and Concert Silence, and collaborated with Peter Broderick. Read more on Last.fm

Alice Coltrane (née McLeod; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz pianist, harpist, organist, composer, and in her later years a swamini. She also occasionally sang and played tambura, harmonium and percussion. An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels. Read more on Last.fm

Harold Budd (May 24, 1936 - 7 December 2020) was an American ambient/avant-garde composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires. His career as a composer began in 1962. In the following years he gained a notable reputation in the local avant-garde community. In 1966 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in musical composition. Read more on Last.fm

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Louisiana-bred, Brooklyn-based recording artist Julianna Barwick crafts ethereal, largely wordless soundscapes, all of which are built around multiple loops and layers of her angelic voice. Barwick, who credits a rural, church choir upbringing for her unique sound, begins most tracks with a single phrase or refrain, then uses a loop station and the occasional piano or percussive instrument to build the song into a swirling mass of lush, ambient folk. Read more on Last.fm