Rich Ruth - Water Still FlowsRich Ruth, the recording project of Nashville multi instrumentalist Michael Ruth, makes wholly immersive instrumental songs that thread the line between gleefully adventurous and calmingly meditative. His music starts in solitude with mesmerizing loops and drones anchoring the arrangements that are eventually colored in by an eclectic cast of collaborators. The resulting exploratory compositions, which combine spiritual jazz, synth infused post rock,

many guitars

Shockingly

A cult album that would later inspire bands like Stereolab

Janet Kaye's 1979 lovers rock classic 'Silly Games' reminds him of his childhood in Bristol's Knowle West district

Guitarist and vocalist Tim Cedar sums up the raison d’être of Chimp as “the stupid amounts of fun you can have with very loud amps

or as she calls them

compositional and spatial mission: sparse but lush

and a timeless sound

the album was R

The Polyphonic Spree are the soundtrack to that light at the end of the tunnel

her roots and her community

The instruments are usually far apart