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Chicago IL, USA

Billy Denk is an ambient and electronic composer, guitarist, and synthesist. In 2019, after several years performing and recording as a jazz guitarist, Billy shifted to ambient music, releasing the auspiciously titled Positive Space and Starbound, whose focal single “Solar Wind” has been a top streamer as well as a featured track on Journeyscapes, a popular ambient radio show. Over the next three years, creating a powerful blend of moods via a fusion of ambient guitar, synth, and electro-acoustic and organic sounds, using a combination of the Ableton Live digital audio workstation and a variety of synthesizers and effects pedals, Billy has released a total of five well-received recordings – Soul Immersion (2019), Connection (2020), Introverse (2021), Blue Lotus Dream (2021) and Night Song (2022). The artist’s latest collection, the provocatively titled In Praise of Shadows, is inspired by and named after an essay on Japanese aesthetics by author and novelist Jun’ichiro Tanizaki.