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Actually what Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider are doing on their new album Pianotapes is chamber music. Wells plays fragile scales on the Bechstein grand piano, while Schneider records them on two old reel-to-reel tape machines and plays the recordings back at altered speeds. This real-time recording process is reflected in Well's piano playing, who replies with modulation and key changes, building the sounds and ideas into his improvisation, playing with them and developing them. Read more on Last.fm

Portland, Oregon's Omni Gardens is the ambient/meditation/new age project of Steve Rosborough, designer and owner of Moon Glyph records. Read more on Last.fm

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Takashi Kokubo: Creating ambient music out of art and the environment | The Japan Times Russell Thomas Takashi Kokubo didn’t know it back in 1985, but he was about to be at the forefront of one of Japan’s most coveted musical exports: kankyō ongaku (environmental music), an offshoot of ambient music that summons worlds and fills spaces with synthesized, and sometimes natural, sounds. “When I created ‘Digital Soundology #1 Volk von Bauhaus Read more on Last.fm

A companion across time, Pauline Anna Strom (1946 – 2020) was both made for our unusual present time and completely, cosmically out of step with it. Fearlessly individualistic and fiercely independent, Pauline understood how often we must go way out if we hope to understand what's within. Long regarded in hushed, reverent tones as one of the finest yet most obscure composers to spring out of the West Coast home-produced cosmic synthesizer music of the 80's Read more on Last.fm

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”I have an ongoing practice of spelling my name JJJJJerome Ellis. I do this because the word I stutter on most frequently is my name.” JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. The artist works across music, performance, writing, video, and photography. Concepts that organize the artist’s practice include: unknowing, improvisation, fugitivity, illegibility, inheritance Read more on Last.fm

Dylan Henner appeared on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette- and digi-only releases for Brighton-based Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw and for the label formerly known as Whities. Henner is not to keen on promoting himself on socials, instead choosing to communicate mostly through wondrously imaginative soundscapes and dito visual artwork. Henner’s first full vinyl longplayer ’The Invention of the Human’ attempts to tackle a set of basic Read more on Last.fm

claire rousay is a Canadian-American experimental / ambient / emo ambient sound artist and composer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Based in Los Angeles as of her recent work, she is known for combining field recordings, voice, minimalist structures, and timbral exploration into deeply emotional sonic landscapes. Rousay was born in Winnipeg and moved to San Antonio, Texas at age 10. She studied piano early and played drums in church settings before leaving formal schooling at 15 to follow a self-directed musical path. Read more on Last.fm

Vanity Productions is the solo moniker of Christian Stadsgaard, a crucial figure in the contemporary Nordic electronic music scene. Together with Loke Rahbek, Stadsgaard helms the highly acclaimed Posh Isolation label and performs as the experimental duo Damien Dubrovnik. Read more on Last.fm