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Woo

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Woo on 28 April 2023. Woo has been played on NTS over 230 times, featured on 193 episodes and was first played on 24 July 2013.

WOO is Mark and Clive Ives, two brothers who have effectively shut out the world and created a musical world of their own. In 1972, sequestered in a small row house in Wimbledon in South London, the Ives brothers began to create a music which they wanted to hear. For several years they made tapes for their own amusement, never once thinking anyone else would be interested. It wasn't really important whether anyone else was interested, and that's one of the main reasons why WOO music works so well, and why it defies all attempts at defining what "kind" of music it is. It is music which delights in its own existence, and in the process, charms the listener like nothing else. It was 1981 before anyone else suggested the world might like a listen, too, and the result was "Whichever way you are going, you are going wrong". Released in the U.K. in 1982, it received rave critical reviews in the difficult to please British press.

Initially describing themselves as alternative, indie rock, lofi jazz, synth & nostalgic acoustic guitar music, the Ives brothers eventually shifted to albums described as ambient, new age, spiritual, angelic, instrumental music for meditation, relaxation & healing.

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Woo

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Woo on 28 April 2023. Woo has been played on NTS over 230 times, featured on 193 episodes and was first played on 24 July 2013.

WOO is Mark and Clive Ives, two brothers who have effectively shut out the world and created a musical world of their own. In 1972, sequestered in a small row house in Wimbledon in South London, the Ives brothers began to create a music which they wanted to hear. For several years they made tapes for their own amusement, never once thinking anyone else would be interested. It wasn't really important whether anyone else was interested, and that's one of the main reasons why WOO music works so well, and why it defies all attempts at defining what "kind" of music it is. It is music which delights in its own existence, and in the process, charms the listener like nothing else. It was 1981 before anyone else suggested the world might like a listen, too, and the result was "Whichever way you are going, you are going wrong". Released in the U.K. in 1982, it received rave critical reviews in the difficult to please British press.

Initially describing themselves as alternative, indie rock, lofi jazz, synth & nostalgic acoustic guitar music, the Ives brothers eventually shifted to albums described as ambient, new age, spiritual, angelic, instrumental music for meditation, relaxation & healing.

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It's Love
WOO
Cloud Nine Music1990
Wallpaper
Woo
Independent Project Records1989
The Western
Woo
Independent Project Records1989
Hopi
WOO
Cloud Nine Music1990
Swingtime
Woo
The Sunshine Series1982
The Frog's Fandango
WOO
Cloud Nine Music1990
A Wave
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The Sunshine Series1982
Awaawaa
Woo
Palto Flats, New General Catalogue2016
A Little Long Way
WOO
Cloud Nine Music1990
Magic In The Dark
Woo
Grunki Records1991

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