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December 30, 2020

Ambient music came back this year to help us with isolation

In the year of big fear and great isolation, musicians turned to producing ambient music "to soothe us where human connection couldn’t", as Guardian puts it. There was consolation from the usual suspects like Brian Eno, his brother Roger Eno, the NYC mystic Laraaji. Dance producers like Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini switched to ambient music as well, Manchester jazzman Matthew Halsall created a weekly playlist, DJ and musician Auntie Flo launched a new digital radio station Ambient Flo with two channels - ambient music, and birdsong...