Earl Patrick pivots sharply away from his usual indie-folk and guitar-driven comfort zones for his newest release, the wildly inventive album "Conditioned By Machines". The Portland, Oregon-based composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has spent over two decades building a dense, eight-album catalog. Here, however, he entirely flips the script. Feeling that classical flute music too often prioritizes gesture over pure melody, he set out...

From French Castle to Studio Magic: A Classical Pianist's Apollo Ray Electronic Evolution Apollo Ray is a great musician, singer, and composer from London, England. Apollo Ray is a professionally trained pianist who can also compose, engineer, produce, and mix music. He has also worked as a tour manager and as a backline and studio player while on the road. His first album, In Orbit, was made...