Name: Interview with Vanessa Ferrel on Public Health, Med School and Health Equity by KUCR 88.3FM
Duration: 32 min 49 s
Description: Hannah from The Gloaming has a conversation with UCR alumnus and MD/MPH (Master of Public Health) student Vanessa Ferrel, currently at UC San Diego and Columbia. They discuss Ferrel's academic experience, public health, and US healthcare.

Botany, 'Dimming Awe, The Light is Raw' out September 18th on Western Vinyl

Bandcamp: https://botany.bandcamp.com/album/dimming-awe-the-light-is-raw
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/qzgj6u

Botany:
Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/botany
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BotanyMusic
Twitter https://twitter.com/botanymusic

Under the Botany moniker, Spencer Stephenson creates rich psychological and emotional experiences through audio. When he started creating his own music at age 15, he was enamored with Four Tet, Stars of the Lid, Madlib, and Dilla.  In his late teens, he went through a heavy period of discovery with Psychedelic rock, Krautrock, and Brit-folk. "I started imitating a lot of those forms in my own music, sampling them sometimes, recording from scratch sometimes, but really just trying to bridge a gap between those worlds and sample-based hip hop, and I’m still trying."

On his latest effort Dimming Awe, the Light is Raw, the 27-year-old producer and composer continues dissolving the borders between his disparate-yet-beloved psych, hip hop, and ambient influences.  Unlike his debut LP Lava Diviner, which peaked and valley-ed through a narrative arc, Dimming Awe focuses on the artist's ever-unfolding, present state of mind.  As a former jazz student, spiritual/free jazz philosophy regarding what he calls “emergent” music has increasingly become a guiding light when he creates.  "The more emergent I let my music be when I'm making it, the more I like the result, it feels like a truer reflection.  I feel like I am getting closer to doing that with computer-made music," he says.  "This album is a document of what I do, not a statement in any explicit way. I feel like I'm moving closer to a jazz underpinning that I've always felt, philosophically more than aesthetically…making music feels more like exhaling as I grow older.”

Botany - "Jotu"

Hannah from The Gloaming has a conversation with UCR alumnus and MD/MPH (Master of Public Health) student Vanessa Ferrel, currently at UC San Diego and Columbia. They discuss Ferrel's academic experience, public health, and US healthcare.

Interview with Vanessa Ferrel on Public Health, Med School and Health Equity

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Interview with Vanessa Ferrel on Public Health, Med School and Health Equity

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