Loscil

As Loscil, composer/producer Scott Morgan creates ambient music that drifts between the intuitive and the intellectual with deceptively easy grace. Since his thermodynamics-themed debut album, 2001's Triple Point, he's shaped his layered atmospheres and delicate, almost subliminal melodies with conceptual frameworks. The history and striking geography of southwestern British Columbia -- especially his hometown of Vancouver -- inspired some of his finest albums, including 2004's First Narrows (his first work to blend live instrumentation with electronics) and 2012's Sketches from New Brighton. As Morgan expanded his focus with 2016's ecologically minded Monument Builders and 2023's meditative Lawrence English collaboration Colours of Air, the vast yet intimate feel of his music remained.