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With 'Backyard Astronomy' Chris Forte shows what a varied and inspired guitar album can sound like.
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Disaster Relief covers a wide musical field on 'Back Into It' - from soul/funk to various strands of world music, and it's all stuff you'll find yourself putting on repeat.
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On their new single, "What You Need It For", India's Ioish deliver something exciting and stay true to the post-rock/prog path they have taken from their start.
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On 'Offworld Radiation Therapy,' Memnon Sa delivers a musically credible futuristic vision of a utopian-like world.
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With 'In The Rain Shadow' MVI musical collective come up with an album that escapes all the trappings of both New Age and prog rock genres.
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With 'Cosmic Flute Rides Again, NTHNL comes up with something that's much more than just another New Age album.
In-demand pedal steel player & improvisor Rich Hinman shares his new single "Buddy," a simple, hymn-like piece, created as a one-take improvisation.
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On 'SE3' Spencer Elliott and his trio show that finger picking acoustic guitar isn't all pastoral and quiet.
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The Color of Cyan proves with their latest album, 'Agape', that there's still life in guitar-driven post-rock.
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On 'Arkinetics,' drummer/composer Dan Kurfirst goes beyond just a set of rhythmic patterns and delivers something compelling.
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On 'Tancade,' Gaspar Claus delivers a truly cleansing musical experience, all with the use of one instrument, his cello.
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On 'Catharsis,' Vancouver's Marc-E, blurs the lines between the genres of instrumental music to great success.
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Moon and Bike deliver mood music that really works without crossing the border into kitsch, on their debut album, 'One.'
When jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi released his soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas back in 1965, he probably never thought that this holiday special would become one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.
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On 'Between All Things,' through their ambient approach, OHMA is able to aurally fill the gap between all things, real or imagined.
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Ryan Dugré delivers an acoustic guitar album that is neither Fahey-style, modern classical, nor New Age, but all of those in the best sense of what they are supposed to be.
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On 'Midnight Crisp' trumpeter Takuya Kuroda truly delivers excellent modern jazz fusion that doesn’t shy away from combining jazz and hip-hop in all its forms and guises.
Clearly inspired by YouTube, Disney has just released an album of 10 lo-fi instrumental covers of some of their most classic songs, like "Hakuna Matata" and "Into the Unknown."
