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Los Angeles
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Performing live very rarely - even then only acoustically - Love Spirals Downwards hybrid dreamscapes are a revelation of studio experimentation. Multi-instrumentalist and producer Ryan Lum and then girlfriend Suzanne Perry released a series of projects in the 1990s, melding dream pop, East Indian music, psychedelic rock, and ethereal ambient sounds, and fused processed and acoustic recording methods, creating a sound that feels relevant decades later. Compiled & mixed by Gem&I Photo: Susan Jennings

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Stockholm
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Stockholm composer Shida Shahabi selects an hour of minimalist compositions and classical pieces for NTS.

Sparkle

Sparkle

Sparkle has been played on NTS in shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, featured first on 26 August 2014. Songs played include Six Million Steps, Disco Madness and Down The Way.

Sparkle first started singing in her family's gospel music group. Sparkle met singer R. Kelly in while he was working on a male artist in 1989. Sparkle was the first and only successful artist to release an album on Kelly's Rockland label. Sparkle's debut album, the self-titled Sparkle, was released on May 19, 1998. The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the R&B charts and was certified Platinum very soon after the release. The album is best known for the single "Be Careful," a 1998 duet with R. Kelly, which made it to two of Billboard's major airplay charts, peaking at No. 3 on the Rhythmic Top 40 and charted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B Airplay for six consecutive weeks, while also reaching No. 7 in the UK.[1] Despite the success of her debut album, Sparkle and R. Kelly began to have creative differences while working on her second album, which led to her to ask to be released from Rockland/Interscope. She then signed with Motown Records, where she would release her second album Told You So in 2000.

A one off disco project who were responsible a self titled album and a single, Disco Madness / Down The Way, both released in 1979.

Iranian experimental/ambient post rock one-band by Parviz Shabrang.

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Sparkle

Sparkle has been played on NTS in shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, featured first on 26 August 2014. Songs played include Six Million Steps, Disco Madness and Down The Way.

Sparkle first started singing in her family's gospel music group. Sparkle met singer R. Kelly in while he was working on a male artist in 1989. Sparkle was the first and only successful artist to release an album on Kelly's Rockland label. Sparkle's debut album, the self-titled Sparkle, was released on May 19, 1998. The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the R&B charts and was certified Platinum very soon after the release. The album is best known for the single "Be Careful," a 1998 duet with R. Kelly, which made it to two of Billboard's major airplay charts, peaking at No. 3 on the Rhythmic Top 40 and charted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B Airplay for six consecutive weeks, while also reaching No. 7 in the UK.[1] Despite the success of her debut album, Sparkle and R. Kelly began to have creative differences while working on her second album, which led to her to ask to be released from Rockland/Interscope. She then signed with Motown Records, where she would release her second album Told You So in 2000.

A one off disco project who were responsible a self titled album and a single, Disco Madness / Down The Way, both released in 1979.

Iranian experimental/ambient post rock one-band by Parviz Shabrang.

Original source: Last.fm

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Six Million Steps
Sparkle
Jam Sessions1979
Disco Madness
Sparkle
Jam Sessions1979
Down The Way
Sparkle
Jam Sessions1979
Let Yourself Go
Sparkle
Jam Sessions1979
You
Sparkle
Jam Sessions1979
Thahousa
Sparkle
Jam Sessions1979