Artists
Constance Demby
New Age • Space Music • Ambient
Constance Demby (1939–2021) was an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, sculptor, and visionary whose work defied categorization. Over five decades she created music that blurred the edges of classical, electronic, ambient, and sacred traditions, incorporating elements of spirituality, healing, and harmonic resonance that connected with audiences in deeply meaningful ways. Constance studied sculpture and music at the University of Michigan, and the instruments she invented by bending and soldering sheet metal, the Space Bass and the Whale Sail, were hallmarks of her recorded output and live performances. She released more than a dozen albums, played inside the Great Pyramid of Giza and at Stonehenge, and left behind a catalog that continues to reach and inspire new listeners. Her 1986 masterwork Novus Magnificat sold over 200,000 copies and helped establish the Grammy's New Age category. In 2025, her music appeared in both Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Marty Supreme.
Dorothy Carter
Folk • Medieval • Hammered Dulcimer
Dorothy Carter (1935–2003) skillfully played several stringed instruments — what she called "her trapezoids" — including hammered dulcimer, zither, and hurdy-gurdy, and interpreted Appalachian, Celtic, and French folk songs in a hypnotic, freewheeling style, influencing many psychedelic folk, experimental, and New Age musicians. She self-released two albums during the 1970s, Troubadour (1976) and Waillee Waillee (1978), featuring traditional songs and her own compositions. Both LPs were reissued in recent years to worldwide acclaim. Later in her life, Dorothy achieved fame as a founding member of the British ensemble Mediæval Bæbes, and recorded a third solo effort, Lonesome Dove (2000). A true nomad, Dorothy called many places home, including New Orleans, Cambridge, Mass., Berlin, and Central Maine, where she was a founding member of the improvisatory collective Central Maine Power with Bob Rutman and Constance Demby.