Original compositions from the talented students at UVic's School of Music. These instrumental tracks are ideal for studying, sleep, and relaxation.

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Currently based in Victoria, B.C., Revin Kobb is a multi-instrumentalist with a long history of performance in British Columbia. His influences range from the classical guitar music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, to Boards of Canada. As a session musician, he has worked on several commercially successful projects, adapting to genres as disparate as hip-hop, dubstep, softrock, metal, and experimental & avant-garde music. Notable releases include the concept album Laika (2018) and E.P. The Goods (2014). Holding degrees in both performance and musicology, Revin Kobb puts his collective experience as a performer and academic to work in
his solo music. Most recently, his self-produced work centres around minimalism. Revin Kobb explores the intersection of nature and music by adapting rich sonic spaces, classical formal structures, flowing melodies, lush harmonies, and tasteful synthesizer accompaniments to the medium of classical guitar.

Stop & Smell The Roses

Accidental Resolve - Revin Kobb

A collaborative project with Steve Kastor and Kenton Dick giving a guitar and piano duo performance with electronic elements that narrates their personal journeys in 2020.

Steve Kastor is a multi-instrumentalist/producer who resides in Victoria, British Columbia. His creativity comes from the intermixing of various genres and styles. Steve’s first release was his Electronic Endeavors EP followed by Bedroom Beattapes under the alias “HolisticB”. His latest EP release MVNT
marks a creative and technical milestone. https://www.instagram.com/stevekastormusic/

Kenton Dick is a multi-instrumentalist/composer who currently resides in Nanaimo, British Columbia. He won best original composition for small ensemble for DownBeat Magazine in 2016, and has performed/collaborated with professional jazz musicians across Canada and the United States. He recently graduated in 2020 from Berklee School of Music with a Bachelor of Music in jazz composition and performance. https://soundcloud.com/kentonwdick

In Time - Steve Kastor X Kenton Dick

Linds (Lindsey Bellman) is an independent musician/producer from Calgary, Alberta who has been writing and recording music since a young age. Primarily self-taught, she plays guitar, electric bass, and piano and records her own vocals for all of the music she writes.

Luna - Linds

Skye Blu aka Cameron Wilson is an electronic artist hailing from Oshawa Ontario. He specializes in anything from jazzy, downtempo beats to trap beats with heavy bass. “I tend to think of songs in terms of the rhythm,” says Cam, which explains why the drums in his songs are so unique and often the focus of the music. The melodic elements in his songs are relatively static but remain interesting with the addition and subtraction of elements, and in this way, he creates interesting and subtle textural shifts.

Swerve - Skye Blu

Zastrugi Fields is a post-rock band originally from Nanaimo, British Columbia, made up of three high-school friends with a similar taste in music and a strong desire for innovation – Eric Lusk-Jopson on guitar, Eric Turko on guitar and keyboards, and Taylor LeBlond on bass. Their influences include ambient, shoegaze, post-punk and folk records, as well as the backdrop of the forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

Elphinstone - Zastrugi Fields

Adam Swartz, from Vancouver BC has been making music and playing the guitar for 13 years. Beginning as a blues guitar player inspired by artists like Eric Clapton and BB King he evolved over years of playing into the genres of Neo-soul and jazz. Adam’s music is often in a jazz-inspired indie style with occasional dips into genres such as R&B and Pop. In recent years Adam has adapted his inspirations to include artists such as Tom Misch and Kaytranada. Adam’s track “Vancouver” hopes to
bring a peaceful and ambient atmosphere within the piece. In future Adam hopes to continue creating music and producing music as a means to share his idealisms, experiences and feelings.

Vancouver - Adam Swartz

Chris Clarke is a self-produced pianist based in Victoria, BC. His background in jazz piano has served as a gateway to many genres and musical projects, including acoustic jazz recordings, and full band R&B productions. In his most recent project for solo piano, Clarke distills this musical palette and takes a minimalist approach to his neoclassical compositions.

Other Places - Chris Clarke

Built under the pressure of quarantine, Lilac Bedroom is the music of Lindsay Gilroy, made from home with just one computer. Lilac Bedroom’s inspiration comes from bedroom indie artists like Far Caspian and Clairo, and lofi hiphop study music. This feeling is emulated in Lilac Bedroom’s music. Stripped of vocals, it aims to create a calming ambiance that you can relax, study, or just breathe to. The soft ear pleasing melodies are Lindsay’s interpretation of a daydream, but with just enough structure to keep you grounded.

Clouds - Lilac Bedroom

Ensembles in Exile explores the intersection between electronic, ambient, and acoustic sounds, combined with field recordings from the natural world. Ensembles in Exile was conceived by Lea Fetterman (violin, vocals) and Richard Charter (guitar, keyboard) Find out more: www.leafetterman.com and www.richardchartermusic.com.

Sirens - Ensembles in Exile

a w a s h is a new experimental electroacoustic group that blends psychoacoustic effects into minimal ambient music to help people wind down and focus. Their first EP entitled, “Somnia,” features Colin Malloy on tongue drum and was produced by Adi Laflamme. The group plans to produce more music using binaural beats and solfeggio frequencies to help listeners achieve specific desired brain states. 

Colin Malloy is a doctoral candidate in the school of music at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Colin studies percussion and is a multi-instrumentalist with an emphasis on steel pan. This EP was a recorded improvised session in the Create Lab at the University of Victoria. 

Adi Laflamme is a master’s degree candidate in the music technology program in the school of music also at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Adi has an academic background in cultural anthropology and has been producing and composing electronic music in Ableton Live for ten years.

Dream Portal - awash

Hip-hop artist and producer Logan Wood explores the realm of meditative and relaxing soundscapes for the first time in collaboration with The University of Victoria and Cordova Bay Records. With most previous work residing in the genus of hip-hop, Logan steps out of his creative comfort zone catering towards various ambient purposes for listeners. Logan casts a wide yet bold net – with intentions of composing music for meditation and relaxation, sleep and lucid dreaming, and studying and focus.

Cloudwalker - Logan Wood

Sugr Pills is an experimental electroacoustic duo that produces ambient chill beats based out of Vancouver Island. Sugr Pills consists of: Ken Kosowick, a pop singer-songwriter studying computer science & music at the University of Victoria, and Clayton Dowdell, an active indie musician in the Victoria music scene. Through jamming and experimentation, they carefully crafted Sugr Pill’s musical aesthetic: a combination of acoustic and synthetic instruments, a steady heart beat pulse, hypnotic harmonies, and the sound of mundane everyday objects sprinkled in throughout the texture to create a warm and intimate
sonic experience.

Chamomile - Sugr Pills

Slow Hoax - Dream & Operator

There's a closeness and intimacy that invites you to forget where you are sitting, like reading your favourite novel for the first time, while suggesting an expansiveness that anything is possible.

Unspool, a collaborative project between Mexico-based composer/pianist Marco Neri and BC-based engineer-producer Peter Mynett, was formed after the two were brought together to
fill a creative void left in their lives when the whole world shut down. They endeavour to create music that is both deep & engaging, while providing an ethereal soundtrack to the tasks of the day. The music is process driven, where ideas are prompts and limitations are keystones. You may not know whether to sharpen your pencil and blow away the lead dust, or open an umpteenth browser window and dive one layer deeper down the rabbit hole.

The Meadow - Unspool

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