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The meeting of varied creative minds from the Kranky Information family led to the slow-to-form entity that had become referred to as Anjou using the release of their first self-titled album in 2014. The trio was produced by former associates of Labradford — Tag Nelson and Robert Donne — along …

Australian pianist/composer Sophie Hutchings match the post-classical genre. Flitting from your calming, idyllic, and melancholy to immediate and tempestuous, her music sat easily alongside that of Rachel’s, Maximum Richter, Peter Broderick, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran, and Nils Frahm. Having a gregarious, outgoing character belied by her music’s wistful introspection, Hutchings …

Given birth to in Canada, Scott Morgan apparently appropriated his Loscil alter ego through the operation code inside the audio synthesis program Csound. Although he admits he seldom in fact uses Csound to generate his convincing minimalist recordings, he asserts that looping and oscillating will be the essentials of his …

Canadian ambient techno maker Scott Morgan (aka Loscil) and classically trained cellist Tag Bridges make sparse, wintry compositions beneath the name High Plains. Both musicians fulfilled in 2014 while these were both on residencies in the Banff Center for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The next yr, Loscil released …

Pianist/composer Dustin O’Halloran and composer/engineer Adam Wiltzie met through a mutual friend in 2007, when Wiltzie was executing with Sparklehorse in Bologna, Italy. Backstage, both music artists struck up a camaraderie that progressed into A Winged Success for the Sullen, an electric outlet for what they’ve termed “harmonic Robitussin.” During …