Women In The Ambient Music World - Part 2

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Katie Gately is decidedly experimental & beat prone, but is included here on the basis of the group recommendation & the fact her recent LP is utilising dramatic ambient soundscapes more than before. One of the least ambient artists in the list, but still worth knowing about.
​Website, Apple Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Instagram

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Jane Antonia Cornish is a contemporary classical composer, so again not strictly ambient but when her profiles say, "Time, silence, light, reflection and transcendence", her inclusion shouldn't cause too much uproar. Cornish was also the first woman ever to win a BAFTA for music.
​Website, Apple Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube

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Lyra Pramuk is yet another multi-disciplinary artist. Pramuk puts her manipulated and looped voice to the fore in her work which hovers around the experimental ambient & electronic world.
​Website, Soundcloud, Facebook, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter

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Green-House is the artistic name of non-binary artist Olive Ardizoni (I know they shouldn't be here, but they're great, I want to promote their work & I guess no one has done a list of non-binary ambient producers?). They are another Leaving Records artist, who has come to prominence recently with a great line in new age of New Age ambient endeavour.
​Spotify, Instagram

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Sign Libra is another artist who strays far from the horizontal path, but overall has a nice new age of New Age ambient quality to her work which I've always enjoyed. She also makes great use of her voice.
Soundcloud, ​Facebook, Spotify

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Bianca Scout is online bio shy but makes "strange angel music and fantasy ballet" which is just fine by me. Again not strictly ambient but produces the sort of non propulsive experimentalism which is not going to get any feet tapping.
​Instagram, Soundcloud, Youtube, Spotify

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Synth Sisters are an Osaka based Japanese duo who I wish had some social profiles I could find. They can get upbeat so I've embedded their most ambient work from this great tape release on Japanese ambient label, Muzan Editions.
Spotify, Another release

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Clarice Jensen is a composer & cellist whose solo work is classical in nature, but involves processing & layering the cello to amazing effect and who is a serial collaborator embarking on all sorts of neo-classical adventures.She's also the artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
​Website, Soundcloud, Spotify

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Conny Frischauf is an Austrian electronic vocal artist with some pleasing ambient outings to her name alongside her more rhythmic productions.
Website, Spotify, Soundcloud

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Katya Yonder is a Russian ambient artist that uses her vocals to great effect and amazingly sings in English, Japanese & French as well as Russian. 
​Facebook, Soundcloud, Tumblr, Spotify

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Vera Dvale is a digitally elusive Norwegian ambient artist & DJ, seemingly with a preference for collaboration & obscure hard to obtain tape releases.
Soundcloud

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GOOD MORNING TAPES · GMT32 Vera Dvale - 'Music is Kinship' (Snippets)

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Helene Rickhard is another digitally elusive Norwegian DJ & ambient artist, whose work, sometimes involving beats, has found favour with the Balearic world. Just one joint EP and quite a few tracks on compilations so far.
​Soundcloud, Spotify

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Suzanne Doucet has been around the music business for 40 years. A former pop star she is now a leading light in the New Age world & a black belt in all things musically horizontal.
​Website, Soundcloud, Spotify

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Hollie Kennif has been producing music with her husband for a while, but 2019 saw her solo push. A dreamy electronic ambient aura is enhanced with creative use of her voice. Positive vibes all round.
​Spotify, Facebook, Instagram (joint account with hubby)

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Jo Johnson's has been banging out some great music for the last 5 years. Bandcamp seems to be the place to head for Jo's ambient offerings with a rare more uptempo electronic release being her main presence on the streaming services.
Soundcloud, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify

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Jaja is not of this world. She specialises in long form deep space soundtracks perfect for drifting through the deepest, loneliest voids of the galaxy. All her solo music is released on the free audio label CYAN, under a creative commons license, which is unusual & refreshing for work of such quality. A lot of the work is mastered at a really low level, so make sure you turn it right up.
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Catherine Christer Hennix is another pioneering figure, this time from Sweden. A sound artist, poet, composer, philosopher, mathematician & visual artist, often associated with the early minimalist movement. Now in her 70's she is still performing live.
Spotify, Wikipedia

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Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer & sound artist working with intervallic harmony in just intonation. Her work leans to the experimental, (slightly) uneasy and drone side of the genre and demands attention.
​Website, Spotify, Soundcloud

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Marta Forseberg is a Swedish composer, sound/light artist and violinist working in the field of installation art,
drone music and improvisation. A realy mixed bag sonically tending to the experimental. Her work is a bit scattered so head to the music section of her website for easier exploring.
Website, Spotify

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Caterina Barbieri is a successful Italian composer that composes polyphonic, polyrhythmic minimal music for analog synthesizers. Certainly beatless but rarely relaxing, with a sound palette that reaches out to you.
Website, Spotify, Soundcloud, Facebook, Instagram

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Johanna M. Beyer (1888-1944).Beyer was a pioneers' pioneer when it came to experimentalism. Born in Germany she moved to the USA where she mixed with the likes of John Cage, favouring the dissonant counterpoint compositional style. Music of the Spheres (1938) is the first known work scored for electronic instruments by a female composer.
Spotify, Wikipedia

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cétieu is the ambient drone moniker of Warsaw based artist Tekla Mrozowicka, who also dabbles with different styles of electronic music.
Website, Spotify, Facebook

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Klara Lewis is a Swedish electronic producer. Not strictly ambient but she always turns the atmosphere up to 11, and does a lot of beatless, though quite often rhythmic, ambient work.
Website, Soundcloud, Spotify, Facebook

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Olivia Way is perhaps the most quintessential ambient producer on this list. Eschewing the streaming platforms she is a prolific Bandcamp artist, focussing on classic ambient sounds.
Bandcamp

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Hélène Vogelsinger is another electronic producer who is not strictly ambient, but who has a great line in rhythmic modular synth work & also utilises her voice to wonderful effect.
​Spotify, Instagram, Youtube

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