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
3d ago
Øystein Skar is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Having learned classical piano music at a young age and studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, he spent years touring and recording with various projects and bands, primarily in the realms of jazz and experimental music, before shifting his focus towards experimental electronic music ..read more
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1w ago
It has been a little over nine years since I had the pleasure of premiering a piece of music from Western Skies Motel, the instrumental solo project of Danish musician René Gonzalez Schelbeck. It was a splendidly atmospheric acoustic piece called “Falling Leaves” from Settlers (2016) which turned out to be Schelbeck’s last full-length outing ..read more
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2w ago
Winter appears to be well into its final thaw for another season now in the Mid-Atlantic and, to paraphrase Haruki Murakami, music is bringing a warm glow to my vision by way of some beautiful new ambient journeys which you can sample and read about here. Featuring new & upcoming releases by anthéne, Thme, and ..read more
Stationary Travels
2w ago
For his fifth studio album, musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Federico Albanese finds deep wells of inspiration in the northern Italian countryside to which he returned in 2022 after eight years living & working in Berlin. From the evocation of natural beauty in the title to the free-flowing music it contains, Blackbirds and the Sun ..read more
Stationary Travels
1M ago
The immense solitude of the mountains – rendered in Italian, that is the title of the latest ambient work from Andrea Porcu under his musical nom de plume of come le onde. Always one to blend evocative backdrops and a keen sense of narrative with his highly introspective approach to drone music, Andrea is very ..read more
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1M ago
Freya Arde is an award-winning composer, guitarist and music producer from Germany who has scored a number of feature films including such heavyweight documentaries as Riefenstahl (2024) and Corridors of Power (2023). Her first release as a solo artist goes back a few years, a delightful EP called Spirit Awake (2020) which was enthusiastically covered here on the ..read more
Stationary Travels
1M ago
The music community at large has always been one to come together in times of hardship and need. Over the dozen or so years of editing this blog, I have certainly seen that to be true of the spaces I follow. And though the empathy and generosity that represents should never be taken for granted ..read more
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1M ago
Lorenzo Masotto is an Italian pianist and composer from a small village just outside Verona. Having started his musical journey at the age of 9 years old and going on to graduate conservatory in his hometown and study abroad at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Germany, Masotto draws on influences ranging from prog/post-rock to ..read more
Stationary Travels
2M ago
As I am sure many readers are already keenly aware, Headphone Commute is a widely followed online resource for electronic, experimental and instrumental music that helped set the bar for many independent blogs to follow (including this one). In fact, it was my own early encounters with HC that sparked the very idea of launching ..read more
Stationary Travels
2M ago
The humble EP is often overlooked when it comes annual roundups, but this format continually proves it can provide us with outsized moments of poignancy, wonder and delight and, as far as I am concerned, the year in music would simply not have been the same without them. Here is a collection of 16 such ..read more