Bob Boilen’s Music
I’ve been making music with electronics since 1979, when I bought an ARP Odyssey and quickly wound up in a band. That band was Tiny Desk Unit. After years of making music with the multi-media theater group Impossible Theatre, I continued to make music independently, using computers to expand my imagination and make up for my mediocre guitar/keyboard skills. My past seven albums have been more ambient affairs, two of them cover albums. My louder side is what I do with my friends in Danger Painters, friends I’ve known for 40 years, including my Tiny Desk Unit bandmate Michael Barron.
Short Time Skies
My first song for 2024, written on the shortest day of 2023.
Brick Walls & Blue Skies
An ambient instrumental album that’s a bit more upbeat at times than some of my other albums.
Futures Waiting
A mix of ambient music somewhat ethereal and times and other times beat driven. Composed and recorded at the end of 2021.
2 WEEKS
1 SUMMER
A mix of ambient and energizing tunes including a cover of Neil Young’s ‘After the Gold Rush’ and The Velvet Underground’s, ‘Candy Says’
HIDDEN SMILES
by Bob Boilen
An album of original ambient instrumentals. A morning listen, suitable for a walk to clear your head, have a sonic adventure, or drift off to sleep.
Further Under Covers
by Bob Boilen
Reimagining some favorite songs as ambient cover tunes
April, 2020
19/20
by Bob Boilen
An EP of original instrumental tunes
January, 2020
Under Covers
by Bob Boilen
Reimagining favorite songs by Bowie, Hank Williams, Lou Reed, George Gershwin, Led Zeppelin and more, as ambient tunes.
September, 2019
Take It To Bed: Music for Clouds
by Bob Boilen
A nighttime album of original ambient tunes
January, 2019
Talk/Listen/
Listen/Talk
by Bob Boilen
2012
Candy From The Future
by Bob Boilen
2011
Talking Vision
by Bob Boilen
2010
New Songs and Shakey Ideas
by Bob Boilen
2008
The Way One Thing Leads To Another
by Bob Boilen
2006
Rotten Seeds Sown by Force
by Bob Boilen
2005
Just This, No More
by Bob Boilen
2004
Laser Dance
by Bob Boilen
1985
Music For Unitards
by Bob Boilen
1983