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Laraaji is an American musician. Born Edward Larry Gordon in 1943 in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. on a scholarship to study composition and piano. After studying at Howard, he spent time in New York pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian and actor. In the early seventies he began to study Eastern mysticism and believed he'd found a new path for his music and his life. Read more on Last.fm

(See Fripp & Eno) Robert Fripp and Brian Eno are pioneers of what later became known as ambient music. Eno coined the term “ambient music” or at least is the first to release music under that name, and Fripp has worked extensively with guitar looping as textural “soundscapes”. Their collaborations have influenced many artists and sound engineers. Robert Fripp and Brian Eno have worked together on many projects over the last 30 years, and Read more on Last.fm

Mary Lattimore is a harpist living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Her most recent album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, was released in October 2023 on Ghostly International. She has collaborated with musicians such as Jeff Zeigler, Chris Forsyth, Maxwell August Croy, Elysse Thebner, Meg Baird and Cody Yantis. Read more on Last.fm

Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer and musician Nala Sinephro fuses meditative sounds, jazz sensibilities, folk and field recordings. Her musical practice is rooted in the study of frequency and geometry and guided by the premise that sound moves matter. Read more on Last.fm

Will August Park is an composer/ multi-instrumentalist from Ventura, CA Read more on Last.fm

Ulla is a Philadelphia-based ambient artist. She started her musical career in 2011 by releasing experimental folk music under the alias YYU and continued until 2016 where she released her debut under her new alias. Within a short time she produced an output that is impressive both in quantity and quality. In 2020, starting with the album Tumbling Towards A Wall, she changed her artist name from Ulla Straus to Ulla. Her latest album is Limitless Frame from 2021. Read more on Last.fm

Laraaji is an American musician. Born Edward Larry Gordon in 1943 in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. on a scholarship to study composition and piano. After studying at Howard, he spent time in New York pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian and actor. In the early seventies he began to study Eastern mysticism and believed he'd found a new path for his music and his life. Read more on Last.fm

There are multiple artists named Scanner: 1. Scanner is a Power Metal Band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany. 2. Scanner is multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London, United Kingdom. 3) A German EBM and Synthpop label founded in 1999 by Francesco D'Angelo Spine Of God. 1. Scanner Was previously known as: - Reinforce (1977 - 1982) - then as Lions Breed, a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed vocalists and drummers and became Scanner in 1986 Read more on Last.fm

Kutiman is Israeli musician, composer, producer and animator Ophir Kutiel (Hebrew: אופיר קותיאל; born in Jerusalem on 21 April 1982). He is best known for creating the online music video project, ThruYOU, a self-titled album, and the viral ongoing series "Thru the City" including his "Mix Tel Aviv" piece, which went viral on YouTube. It was while working at a local convenience store in Tel Aviv that Kutiel discovered a college radio station that was playing music much different from the Classical-Jazz he had been used to hearing. Read more on Last.fm

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