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
2d ago
Continuing a collaboration that began with an EP to raise money to support relief efforts following an earthquake that struck Japan earlier this year, Akira Kosemura and Lawrence English have just released their first full length album together. Taking its name from the goddess who personifies the moon in Greek mythology, Selene finds these two ..read more
Stationary Travels
1w ago
Danny Clay is an American composer and educator whose work really extends beyond music into games, puzzles, and other forms of discovery and improvisation. As a collaborator he was worked with fellow musicians, ensembles, orchestras, and symphonies but he has quite a lovely body of work as a solo artist as well in which he ..read more
Stationary Travels
1w ago
Among the monuments at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan is one dedicated to the thousands innocent children who died from atomic bomb that leveled the city and its fallout. Atop the dome-shaped pedestal of the Children’s Peace Monument stands the bronze figure of the girl who inspired it, holding a paper crane up ..read more
Stationary Travels
2w ago
Julia Gjertsen is a pianist and composer who lives in Oslo, Norway and whose music is characterized by a delightfully inventive blend of electronics and ambient textures with layered piano melodies. In addition to commissioned work and collaborations with other artists, Julia has developed a body of solo work in the form of singles, EPs, and ..read more
Stationary Travels
2w ago
Glowworm is a project that features the music of guitarist Kevin Scott Davis and pianist & vocalist Asia Dojnikowska. Each member of the band is classically trained, Dojnikowska having formally studied classical piano for 12 years in Poland and Davis with a degree in music composition in America. Far from being an academic effort, however ..read more
Stationary Travels
2w ago
On one hand, the new album Hind could simply be described as a pair of musicians – namely Sebastian Mullaert & Henrik Frendin – alone in a studio improvising with their respective instruments. Step back and take in the wider context of how they got there, however, and you can see how calling it “the ..read more
Stationary Travels
3w ago
While the concept of time is intrinsically bound to all music, only artists with a certain kind of vision can expand our perception of it through the sounds they create. One such artist is Francesca Guccione. A violinist who has performed in many cities around the world and a composer with a master’s degree in ..read more
Stationary Travels
3w ago
“How naturally generous should be our appreciation of the marvels and beauty of a strange land”. These words from the final coda of novelist Neil Gunn’s autobiographical account of resigning from the Civil Service to journey through the Inner Hebrides on a small boat seem especially apropos to the introduction of a wonderful new musical ..read more
Stationary Travels
1M ago
If you don’t know the name of UK-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Matt Emery, chances are you have heard his music somewhere. It could have been as part of a soundtrack to one of over 100 television shows or setting the mood for the trailer of a major film like The Kindness of Strangers (2019), or ..read more
Stationary Travels
1M ago
In calling his new album Anaphora, UK-based guitarist Charlie Coxedge is telling us a great deal about the music it contains. Originating from a Greek phrase meaning “carrying back“, the word suggests a means of expression that relies on patterns of repetition. Most applicable here is its use as a rhetorical device which involves repeating ..read more