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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 …

Bing & Ruth certainly are a Brooklyn-based minimalist outfit led by pianist/composer David Moore. Moore produced the group in 2006 with other music pupil friends attending NY City’s esteemed New College. The ensemble size shifts from task to project predicated on the range of Moore’s parts, though a primary chamber-sized …

Chicago-based spectral wanderer Ken Camden got his begin in the ’90s playing guitar for groups like Arco Flute Foundation, Meisha, and finally the Implodes Sound Quartet (additionally known as merely Implodes). His instrumental single work is normally a mesh of his distinctive electric guitar playing and levels of synthesizer textures …