Midday Muse: Dickson and Familiar

Experience the unique fusion of tradition and innovation as cutting-edge klezmer clarinetist Glenn Dickson joins forces with electronic musician and Boston rock veteran Bob Familiar. Together, they craft a lush, orchestral sound, layering clarinet and synths into something both expansive and deeply intimate.

Glenn has adopted looping techniques and digital manipulations of his acoustic clarinet sound, while Bob utilizes the Osmose keyboard, which extends the intuitive expressiveness of the traditional synthesizer through multi-dimensional sensing for every key, with drifting loop stations, and state-of-the-art sound processors.

Their "compositional ambient" style encompasses soaring melodies, awesome textural layerings, and detailed interplay between the instruments. They borrow from the best of the ambient world with a classical sensitivity and melodic development that sets them apart from much ambient and electronic music. Their first album, "All the Light of Our Sphere" dropped May 30, 2025.

PRESS / REVIEWS
“ ...what Glenn Dickson and his accomplice Bob Familiar offer isn’t just music in any conventional sense. It’s closer to poetry, cerebral, unhurried, insistent. A soundscape to be read, not simply heard.” - Thierry De Clemensat - Paris Move

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