Stationary Travels
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Stationary Travels is based in Richmond, Virginia. It is a place to discover, share, and talk about great instrumental music from all over the world - music that tells stories without words or that is capable of transporting you far from wherever you currently find yourself. The scope of coverage embraces a variety of predominantly instrumental genres such as experimental ambient, drone, field..
Stationary Travels
5d ago
From a very young age, Swedish composer Matti Bye came to the realization that the piano would be the instrument that would become what is biography calls his “true means of expression” and “musical weapon of choice”. His career provides ample evidence of this from his live performances to screenings of the masterpieces of silent ..read more
Stationary Travels
1w ago
First introduced with the 2020 EP Thought Forms, Purple Decades is an alter ego of Cincinnati-based composer, pianist, & producer Tristan Eckerson that he uses to explore a broad spectrum of electronic textures and ambient soundscapes. The project saw its first full length album release last year with Journey Test (Beacon Sound), an album characterized ..read more
Stationary Travels
2w ago
Nearly a decade after first coming up the idea, composer Nils Frahm has seen Piano Day widely celebrated around the world on the 88th day of each year (chosen for the 88 keys of the piano of course). More recently Frahm’s Leiter label began curating and releasing an annual compilation of piano music to coincide ..read more
Stationary Travels
2w ago
While Abul Mogard (the alter ego of Guido Zen) and Rafael Anton Irisarri each create music that is often labeled as ambient, anyone familiar with their work would likely agree that they do not necessarily comply with Eno’s oft repeated hypothesis that it “must be as ignorable as it is interesting”. In their own distinctive ..read more
Stationary Travels
3w ago
Derek Hunter Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Portland, Oregon who considers improvisation an important part of his musical practice. While this can be said of a number of musicians, I would dare say few embrace the idea as expansively as Wilson. A compelling case in point is his 2022 project covered here ..read more
Stationary Travels
3w ago
There are any number of ways an artist might seek to capture the essence of a place in their music. A field recordist might do so solely through curating and mixing sounds they collect in situ while an electronic musician might conjure an immersive soundscape that envelops the listener in a visceral way. For modern ..read more
Stationary Travels
1M ago
As a practicing psychoanalyst and a former founding member of the San Francisco psychedelic collective Citay, New York based guitarist and composer Ezra Feinberg is able to create music that appeals on multiple levels – thoughtful and humanistic on one hand and buoyantly experimental on the other. In calling his forthcoming third album Soft Power ..read more
Stationary Travels
1M ago
Since emerging on the scene as a solo artist around eight years ago, German musician & composer Tim Linghaus has built up a body of work characterized by an understated, but deeply personal approach to neoclassical music centered around piano, synthesizers and ambient noise. Many of his works are referential of his own experiences growing up ..read more
Stationary Travels
2M ago
Since the debut of his Illuminine project eight years ago, Belgian musician & composer Kevin Imbrechts has been consistently focused on creating “peaceful music” infused with melancholic beauty. Collaboration has been a theme in his work as well, from the early involvement of Sigur Rós‘ sound engineer Birgir Jón Birgisson in the shaping the sound ..read more
Stationary Travels
3M ago
Hailing from Motherwell, a town southeast of Glasgow once known as the steel capital of Scotland, A Sudden Burst of Colour is an instrumental rock trio that has been making music for the better part of a decade now. After a string of stellar EPs and singles in recent years, the band has just released ..read more