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  • Artist Scott August Scott August, born in Los Angeles and raised in Fullerton, California, trained first on cello and piano and later discovered… View →
  • Artist Peter Phippen Peter Phippen is a musician based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who took up the flute after touring as a rock… View →
  • Artist Coyote Oldman Coyote Oldman is an instrumental duo founded in 1986 by Michael Graham Allen (b. 1950, Alabama), the group's founder, principal… View →
  • Artist Douglas Spotted Eagle Douglas Spotted Eagle (born Douglas Wallentine, 1962, Iowa) is a musician and audio engineer who is not Native American himself;… View →
  • Artist Peter Kater German-American pianist Peter Kater (b. 1958) built his early career on the Colorado-based Silver Wave label, recording celebrated collaborations with… View →
  • Artist Andreas Vollenweider Swiss harpist Andreas Vollenweider (b. 1953) modified his own electro-acoustic harp with pickups to achieve effects no traditional harp could… View →
  • Artist David Darling American cellist David Darling (1941-2021) joined the Grammy-winning Paul Winter Consort in 1970 and released his ECM debut, Journal October,… View →
  • Artist Robert Slap American composer Robert Slap (b. 1951) served as music director and producer for the influential New Age label Valley of… View →
  • Artist Ray Lynch American composer Ray Lynch (b. 1943) trained classically in guitar under the influence of Andres Segovia before a period of… View →
  • Artist Suzanne Ciani Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani (b. 1946), known as The Diva of the Diode, was among the first women to build… View →
  • Artist Vangelis Greek composer Vangelis (Evangelos Papathanassiou, 1943-2022) won the Academy Award for Chariots of Fire (1981) and composed the enduringly influential… View →
  • Artist Kitaro Japanese composer Kitaro (Masanori Takahashi, b. 1953) became a solo artist in 1978 after his early work with Far East… View →
  • Artist Kevin Kern American pianist and composer Kevin Kern, born Kevin Lark Gibbs in 1958 in Detroit, has been legally blind since birth… View →
  • Artist David Lanz American pianist and composer David Lanz, born in 1950 in Seattle, began writing his own piano compositions as a child… View →
  • Artist Bernward Koch German pianist and composer Bernward Koch, born in 1957 in Siegen, built a soothing, melody-driven style layered with flute, guitar,… View →
  • Artist Omar Akram Afghan-American pianist and composer Omar Akram, born in New York City in 1964, grew up the son of a United… View →
  • Artist Masayoshi Fujita Masayoshi Fujita is a Japanese vibraphonist, marimba player, and composer based for 13 years in Berlin, before relocating to the… View →
  • Artist Yosi Horikawa Yosi Horikawa grew up in Osaka and began recording found sounds - rice boxes, chopsticks, soup-stock bags - as a… View →
  • Artist Tetsu Inoue A Tokyo native, Tetsu Inoue began with guitar in pop and rock cover bands before moving toward synthesizers and sequencers,… View →
  • Artist Chihei Hatakeyama Born in 1978 in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Chihei Hatakeyama moved from a background in thrash metal and Krautrock-influenced guitar toward… View →
  • Artist Steve Roach Considered one of the pioneers of American ambient/space music; his catalog spans meditative instrumental soundscapes, shamanic-percussion collaborations, and consciousness-themed recordings. View →
  • Artist Yanni Greek composer and keyboardist known for large-scale instrumental new-age compositions performed with full orchestras. View →
  • Artist Michael Stearns American ambient composer and sound designer, known for scoring Ron Fricke's films Baraka, Chronos, and Samsara. View →
  • Artist Chronotope Project Project of Jeffrey Ericson Allen creating tribal-influenced ambient and electronic space music inspired by sacred traditions. View →