Like most children, Emmalee's first experience of making music was with a plastic recorder and a number of other ill-advised toy whistles and trumpets. It was from here that she followed a not unpredictable but quite successful progression to the oboe, clarinet, and English and French horns. She studied (and is a great lover of) Romantic and Modern classical music, with a particular fondness for Debussy. Perhaps the most important twist in this so far dull history involves Emmalee's other fascination: electronics. Being adept at dismantling all manner of gadgets from an early age, she naturally developed a secondary musical affinity for analog synthesizers and other voltage-driven trinkets of noisemaking. She is now equally at home with a soldering iron as a woodwind, and is a great believer in circuit-bending*. Today, Emmalee blends woodwinds, horns and analog synthesizers with found sounds and bent circuits to create ambient, orchestral drone music reminiscent of Mark Hollis and Stars Of The Lid. Emmalee Crane was born in Toronto in 1983. She now lives in San Francisco with an unruly collection of instruments and her dog, Bash. * as long as you don't mention the time she totally wrecked a Juno 106 For more information visit her website.

Crowd of Reeds Crux Formantine

Tagged as: Ambient, Electronica, Drone.

1. Claire Fitch: ambient cellist
2. Logic Gate: dreamy ambient old school electronica
3. Tilopa: healing magic of the japanese zenflute
4. Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
5. Trip Wamsley: Atmospheric Jazz bass
6. Giorgio Costantini: Intense and minimalist new-classic piano and cinematic orchestration
7. Shiva in Exile: Gothic Arab/Indian World Music
8. Attic Trax: Chilled downtempo with a bit of attitude
9. Ion: clean, crystalline ambient
10. Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
11. Kirsty Hawkshaw: ambient electronica
12. My Woshin Mashin: Crossover-Electronic, Chaos-Pop
13. DP Kaufman: ambient, melodic electronica meets neo-classical
14. Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe
15. Terracotta Blue: Hip-hop-infused, electronic chill music... with a dash of everything else!
16. Kara Nomadica: a fresh new sound driven by traditional Arabic and Turkish rhythms
17. Anton Cosmo: rock superstar to be
18. Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
19. Stellamara: original Balkan-Near Eastern-Medieval-Ambient-World.
20. Jeffrey Luck Lucas: darkly gorgeous, cinematic folk