KEXP’s Dusty Henry on ambient music and “Correspondances II”

In Our Headphones

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dusty Henry, KEXP’s Associate Director of Editorial, sits down with host Evie Stokes to talk about his love of ambient music and why he thinks listening to it in this day and age is a radical act. He also tells her about two of his favorite artists – Laurie Torres and Nailah Hunter – and their new collaboration on the track “Correspondances II.”

Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry

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0:00.0	In Our headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave.
0:04.3	Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com.
0:07.2	From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of lately.
0:15.3	This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with Dusty Henry.
0:19.1	So, Dusty, you're our associate director of editorial at K-E-X-P.
0:23.5	Yeah, I work with the KXP's editorial team on beautiful podcasts like this. Cobain 50, a deeper
0:30.4	listen. Yeah, and newsletters as well. Anything with words and storytelling at KXP were kind of
0:36.6	involved in. Well, Dusty, you brought a new song
0:39.8	that you're gonna share with us today.
0:41.3	What's you got for us?
0:42.8	Yeah, so I brought in the song,
0:44.3	Correspondences 2 by Laurie Torres and Nyla Hunter.
0:47.9	And I want you to tell me a little bit about this song.
0:50.1	So tell me about Lori and about Naila. What do you know about them? Yeah. So I would classify them both sort of in this ambient music space. Lory Torres, she's based out of Montreal, Quebec. She's multi-instrumentalist. A lot of her music centers around the piano. She put an amazing record earlier this year called Apreku, which translates to afterwards.
1:13.6	It's one of my favorite albums of this year.
1:16.6	A lot of it centers on piano, but she also uses synthesizers, drum loops, things like that.
1:20.6	But this song is actually a reworking from a song she put out last year.
1:25.6	She's been putting out these remixes recently, and I was really excited to see Naila Hunter on it, because she's another one of my favorite ambient artist. She's a harpist based out of LA. She put in a really amazing EP in 2020 called Spells. That's like this fantasy, feels like Legend of Zelda kind of ambient music it was like my
1:46.3	lifeline during the pandemic um so them to work together just feels like a a dream club
1:52.0	i almost felt pandered too when i saw the track come up tell you've been really into ambient
1:57.8	music lately haven't you yes tell me why that is what is it about ambient music that you love't you? Yes. Tell me why that is.
2:01.5	What is it about ambient music that you love so much?
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