Results for "Ambient"

Dual Dialect

Dual Dialect merges mutated saxophone lines, disintegrated beats, and abstract pads into a visceral, sonic experience.

Forming in 2025, the Meanjin duo features saxophone/woodwind player Andrew Garton (Ghostwoods, The Francis Wolves, The Scornful Four), alongside producer Andrew Foley (Grids/Units/Planes, YEARNS).

Together, their music combines glitchy, downbeat electronica with the fringes of jazz.

Dual Dialect’s first EP, Wild Plants Cover the Abandoned Nuclear Site, evokes a strange narrative. Saxophone melodies unfurl like strange vines and beats crumble like decaying concrete structures.

Ian Raymond Smit

Born: November 17, 1957

is…Composer, guitar texturalist for Monkeyworks, e’fessioux, Rick Savage & Beyond Jazz, Sputnik 5, QWERT, Ping, and a bunch of unsuspecting singer/songwriters, still manages to not fall into a neatly packaged musical genre…And, that’s okay!

What...is | ian smit | Ian Smit (bandcamp.com)

Monkeyworks (squarespace.com)  My band of over 30 years

Music | e'fessioux (bandcamp.com)  Some of my favorite edgy group improvisations

Allison Burik

Allison Burik is a saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser, and composer based in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal, Quebec. Their current collaborations include Montreal collective “Bellbird,” experimental duo “Umbrella Pine,” and the “Mali Obomsawin Xtet”. Their debut solo album, Realm, (2024) explores the sonic possibilities of the woodwinds through electronics and contact microphones, resulting in soundscapes that are both earthy and alien. The music for Realm is inspired by mythology, folklore, and world history. They have performed in festivals, residencies, and concerts in places as far reaching as France, South Korea, Canada, and the US

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Doug Wilde

Doug is the principle composer, music director, and keyboard player for the Canadian world/ jazz /fusion group Manteca.   Doug has also released a number of projects under his own name, both “Chamber/ Scenic Jazz” and “Ambient Music”. His latest project “ The Sixth Dimension” is a unique reworking of  traditional jazz  harmony, using six-note scales.
As a composer and founding partner of the music production company "Harris Cole Wilde " (later known as "Jungle Music") Doug spent many years writing and learning on the front lines – creating all kinds of music, working with great musicians and recording everyday. As a screen composer, Doug has created well over 1500 scores for radio and television commercials – including numerous scores for TV variety, documentary programming and radio drama. Doug also has extensive experience as a music director for live television. He has composed, arranged, and led bands for the Gemini and Genie awards, weekly national variety shows, Canada Day from Parliament Hill and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Fabio Anile

Born: April 19, 1970

Classical trained pianist and keyboardist, Fabio Anile has played in many bands and worked in many different musical contexts, developing a distinctive sound.
His music can be defined as classical, minimal, ambient, experimental and it ranges from atmospheric film style soundtracks to minimalism and rock music. 

Greg Hammontree

Greg Hammontree is a dynamic NYC multi-instrumentalist and composer, whose extensive credits range from The Blue Note NYC, Radio City Music Hall, Symphony Space, and The Jazz Standard to Bing Concert Hall (Stanford), The Kaufman Center (Kansas City), and Concert House Berlin (Germany). His appearances include Netflix, CBS, HBO, RAI, PBS, and ABC, and he's enjoyed opening for such popular names as Josh Groban, Ginuwine, and Christian McBride.

Hammontree currently tours internationally with The Queen’s Cartoonists. They regularly headline at performing arts centers and jazz festivals, and have opened for the New York Philharmonic. As an arranger and composer, Hammontree has worked for various artists such as Jason Trachtenburg (Late Night with Conan O'Brien & MTV) in addition to his own new music.

Ronald Van Deurzen

Ronald Van Deurzen is an acclaimed pianist, organist and keyboardist in a variety of styles as well as a modern cinematic composer. He uses a wide variation of instrumental backing in his music, ranging from orchestra to world instruments and synthesizers.

Influenced by classical, jazz, meditational music, 80s/90s progressive rock and global fusion, he has collaborated with numerous bands (folkrock / Americana / prog) and live orchestra. As an independent artist he has also released his own albums and singles. His work has earned him prestigious recognition, including accolades from the InterContinental Music Awards, Hollywood Music In Media Awards and Hollywood Independent Music Awards.

Jason Vitelli

Born: 1979

With three literate singer-songwriter releases to his credit, it might seem paradoxical that Brooklyn-based Jason Vitelli’s newest project presents his music without lyrics. But as he notes, 1. Ambient Corridors is an inaugural instrumental collection that signifies a return to his roots. ​

In 2003, after his composition and scoring studies, Jason created music for student films, documentaries, and short films, all while working in tandem with an accomplished film composer. Much of the music on this project is selected from this previous period, refined and given new life, as he explains. “A return to form; re-establishing work I’d done years ago and building upon it.” 

Sonar

Besides being passionate musicians, SONAR’s four members Stephan Thelen (guitar), Bernhard Wagner (guitar), Christian Kuntner (electric bass) and Manuel Pasquinelli (drums) have backgrounds as diverse as performance art, software engineering, and mathematics, all adding to the eclectic mix of influences that make up this truly unique band. The group SONAR was born in 2010. The two Zürich-based guitarists Stephan and Bernhard met one evening when Stephan was playing and Bernhard was in the audience. They immediately found that they shared many common interests, so it wasn’t long before they started playing together