*limited vinyl and cassette editions via leavingrecords.com -
https://leavingrecords.com/plant-music-vol-3-the-golden-teachers
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Experience the high strangeness of plant music—plants that “sing.” For years musician Nico Georis has used biofeedback instruments to connect a variety of flora to analog synthesizers, letting their biodata create music that is strange and existentially gorgeous.

Nico’s work in plant music happened during a six year span, and was set in motion by a simple desire to find a fresh supply of long-form ambient music for relaxing to at home. After a chance encounter with an obscure technology dating back to the 70’s allowing plant electricity to be converted to MIDI data, Nico began experimenting with using his house plants to generate endlessly evolving ambient music. “I was looking for music that I couldn’t find, and I realized the plants & I could make it.”

Here was an opportunity for another type of ambient music, one not born of the human brain, to emerge. A music that moves beyond human thought forms all together, and leans deeply into the green. Culled from hundreds of plant songs recorded between 2016 - 2022 both at home and in the wild Plant Music Vol. 1 and 2 represent the “greatest hits” of Nico’s plant music years.

Plant music Vol. 3 marks the newest installation, showcasing music generated from psilocybin mushrooms, known by many as “Golden Teachers”.

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"This music is created via an artistic translation of electrical biodata into musical data. Two mushrooms and the mycelium connecting them are hooked-up to sensors, and their fluctuating electrical conductivity is translated into an equivalent flow of music notes (MIDI). These notes are then filtered into musical scales and routed into synthesizers that generate tones.

These recordings have been arranged into a variety of solos, duets and trios. They reflect what we feel are the most fascinating and beautiful examples of psilocybin mushroom music, straight from the tub."

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Nico Georis is a keyboard player, producer & songwriter from California. He produces music from his studio at Granny's Dancehall in a ghost town amidst the wilderness. His music, a unique amalgamation of global influences, presents an imposing total aesthetic that is all his own.

Made with the help of Bob Otis and Lovelle Femme.
Special thanks to Matt Baldwin who helped conceive and organize this recording while also co-editing a few songs.
Cover photo by Matt Baldwin and Gabe Georis.
Artwork and layout by Victoria Stöcker.
Mastered by Will Smith.

LTD VINYL & TAPES

Nico Georis - Plant Music Vol.3 - The Golden Teachers

https://leavingrecords.com/statues-live
Spencer Zahn is the LA-residing bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer who has released several albums both as a solo artist and as a collaborator. His music is marked by openness - spacious sonic spaces rich with contributions from his creative community.

In November 2023, Zahn released Statues - the album compositions were written during a six month period of solitary focus - however after moving to Los Angeles in early 2023, Zahn started to work with a group of new musicians that make up some of the most exciting players in LA. His new west coast quartet consists of Nicole McCabe, Vancil Cooper, and Zach Tenorio.

On Zahn’s latest offering Statues Live the west coast quartet performed two live concerts both recorded to make up the tracklisting for his new album. Though the compositions are the same as the studio album Statues, the sound and performance is unique to this new live album leaning heavily on the perspective of the quartet and their collective improvisations. Side A was recorded live, outdoors at the Leaving Records concert series. Side B was recorded live, indoors at Altamira Sound in front of a studio audience.

Side A Recorded by Adrian Garcia Mixed by Spencer Zahn Recorded live at Leaving Records on October 14, 2023

Side B Recorded by Rob Shelton and James Riotto Mixed by Spencer Zahn Recorded live at Altamira Sound on November 19, 2023

Mastered by Matthewdavid McQueen

Artwork & Layout by Radha Vishnubhotla

Photography by Clifford Usher

Personnel: *Vancil Cooper, drums Nicole McCabe, alto saxophone Zach Tenorio, electric piano Spencer Zahn, fretless bass & piano

Spencer Zahn - Statues Live

Southern rock from Tallahassee, Florida.  Taylor Ross, age 23, played all the instruments on this album, breaking bones in a freak accident while flailing arms and head during a drum session. He finished, recording with his neck turned at a 90-degree for weeks on end. Pain killers may have been consumed. Surface To Air Missive became a band of four members.  They met Matthewdavid from Leaving records, who brought the album to Stones Throw. Leaving & Stones Throw have pressed 300 copies of the vinyl, all of which were commandeered by the band. Get the digital here:
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/surface/surface-to-air-missive

Surface to Air Missive - The Heat

Samiyam is Sam Baker, hip-hop producer working out of the same dusty corners of Los Angeles that brought us Flying Lotus, Jonwayne, Gaslamp Killer, Ras G and so many others.

Sam Baker's Album was his debut, released on Brainfeeder in 2011. More
recent credits include production for Captain Murphy's Duality and Earl Sweatshirt's Doris.

Wish You Were Here is his first release with Leaving Records & Stones Throw. It's sixteen tracks ­ instrumentals with three rap tracks featuring
Evidence, The Alchemist and Samiyam, making his debut on the mic. "I'm just trying to show where I'm coming from," he says, "I'm not about futuristic spaceship beats, just straight forward hip-hop."

http://www.stonesthrow.com/leavingrecords

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2013/10/samiyam-wish-you-were-here

Samiyam - Snakes On The Moon

TJD001 is Jitwam's debut of original slow-motion funk, dusty soul, and cassette-spun R&B from Australia by way of Manipur. Mastered by LR's Matthewdavid, available now via iTunes & ltd. edition 12" vinyl.

Jitwam - Keepyourbusinesstoyourself

M. Geddes Gengras - "Ishi" June 24th
180g 12" tip-on _ CD & digital include 40min bonus 'Vigil'
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mgg/ishi

“No dream, no wildest nightmare, prefigured for Ishi a city crowd, its clamor, its endless hurrying past to be endlessly replaced by others of its kind, face indistinguishable from face.”

- Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi: In Two Worlds


M. Geddes Gengras has inhabited the Los Angeles experimental music scene for the last 7 years, bouncing through various bands, monikers, and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sun Araw and The Congos. The producer perhaps shines most brightly, however, when left to his own bespoke devices. His solo work is largely based in modular synthesis, comfortably straddling a variety of forms while remaining rooted in a deep affinity for the limitations of analog electronics and a keen ear for timbral manipulation.


Ishi finds the producer diving headlong into beautiful, sprawling ambient explorations and deep, mystical drone. Its title is the name given to “the last wild Indian” in North America, who emerged in 1911 at the age of 49. Hidden all his life in the wilderness of northern California, Ishi spent most of his life completely unexposed to the modern world lurking just beyond his own timeless reality. His only exposure to the “civilized” world came from Gold Rush settlers, whom he watched massacre and disease each and every member of his family and tribe, until he alone remained. When he was found, communication between the miraculous survivor and this strange new world was understandably difficult and frightening— but the knowledge gained through the process proved invaluable.


Sometimes the most effective and direct means of communication and understanding exist outside of human language. Gengras’ highly expressive instrumental record reveals itself via sweeping tonal gestures and striking, intensely colorful washes of heavily processed electronic sound. “Ambient” is insufficient to describe the uniquely evocative soundtrack presented here, a lushly nuanced sound world generated directly from the deeply personal relationship between one man and his meticulously cultivated machines.


“The record is about the schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it— perpetual outsiders and their quest to understand the torrent of information they are constantly subjected to. I was directly inspired to these pieces by two people in my orbit who died this year, one accidentally and one not, both of whom suffered this affliction and eventually lost their lives to it. The music was a reaction to these losses and a sort of offering of something peaceful but at the same time respectful of the conflict and dissonance of life, with movement always in the distance. I look at it as music for passage between different realms, conscious & un, this world & another, layers of reality... ISHI is a metaphor for that— the man who walks into our world understanding none of it but forced to live in it regardless. This is somewhere in between a prayer and a lullaby for him and for the rest of them, but also something for those of us left behind.” - M. Geddes Gengras

M. Geddes Gengras - Passage

LR044 - Surface Outtakes - drops 07.08.2014 via Leaving Records ltd. cassette edition - an introspective prelude to "Yawn Zen", the proper full-length dropping August2014 Stones Throw Records

Mndsgn - Eggs

Full-length "Dixie Crystals" out worldwide Sept 2nd 2014 
Leaving Records / Stones Throw


Trance Farmers -  Lone Star

"Menace in the Phantom" (CS, digi):
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/cakedog/menace-in-the-phantom 

2014 Leaving Records

Cakedog - CakeUp

Breathing Hills

Sunstream

Mycelium Tub

Mind Gardens

Constellation

https://leavingrecords.com/statues-live
Spencer Zahn is the LA-residing bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer who has released several albums both as a solo artist and as a collaborator. His music is marked by openness - spacious sonic spaces rich with contributions from his creative community.

In November 2023, Zahn released Statues - the album compositions were written during a six month period of solitary focus - however after moving to Los Angeles in early 2023, Zahn started to work with a group of new musicians that make up some of the most exciting players in LA. His new west coast quartet consists of Nicole McCabe, Vancil Cooper, and Zach Tenorio.

On Zahn’s latest offering Statues Live the west coast quartet performed two live concerts both recorded to make up the tracklisting for his new album. Though the compositions are the same as the studio album Statues, the sound and performance is unique to this new live album leaning heavily on the perspective of the quartet and their collective improvisations. Side A was recorded live, outdoors at the Leaving Records concert series. Side B was recorded live, indoors at Altamira Sound in front of a studio audience.

Side A Recorded by Adrian Garcia Mixed by Spencer Zahn Recorded live at Leaving Records on October 14, 2023

Side B Recorded by Rob Shelton and James Riotto Mixed by Spencer Zahn Recorded live at Altamira Sound on November 19, 2023

Mastered by Matthewdavid McQueen

Artwork & Layout by Radha Vishnubhotla

Personnel: *Vancil Cooper, drums Nicole McCabe, alto saxophone Zach Tenorio, electric piano Spencer Zahn, fretless bass & piano

01 Changes in Three Parts [Live at Leaving Records]

02 Lawns [Live at Leaving Records]

03 High Touch [Live at Leaving Records]

04 Curious Frame [Live at Leaving Records]

05 Wind Unsung [Live at Leaving Records]

06 Short Drive Home [Live at Altamira Sound]

07 OST [Live at Altamira Sound]

08 Lawns [Live at Altamira Sound]

09 Wave [Live at Altamira Sound]

10 Curious Frame [Live at Altamira Sound]

11 Snow Fields [Live at Altamira Sound]

12 Wind Unsung [Live at Altamira Sound]

100% Zithertronics straight off the top.
https://leavingrecords.com/zithertronics-mixtape
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instrumentation:
*norns running &'s rpls script:
https://github.com/andr-ew/rpls
*zither
*critter guitari pocket piano + bolsa bass
*trogotronic pulse generator

track 11 features Carlos Niño
photo by Nico Georis

Matthewdavid - 100% Zithertronics

from Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires
98tracks, 6hrs 51min ---> https://staying.bandcamp.com 
- - - - -
featuring unreleased/unheard music from André 3000, Julia Holter, Baths & Rachika Nayar, Laraaji, Samantha Urbani, Total Blue, Samiyam, Eddie Chacon, Sam Wilkes, Reggie Watts, Brijean, and many many more . . .

LA FIRE AID

Baths & Rachika Nayar - Dried Apricot

https://leavingrecords.com/land-s-end-eternal

Cole Pulice - After the Rain

Excerpt from 30 minute side A "Trance Celestial", full release additionally includes 30 minute side B Guided Meditation "Connecting with Inner Healer Through Music" - '82/'83

PURCHASE FULL RELEASE

Laraaji - Trance Celestial, Movement 4

http://leavingrecords.com/tapes/lr011-ssaliva-thought-has-wings/
A reissue from the Leaving Records catalog, tape limited to 200 copies. Belgium resident Francois Boulanger makes mutant-house and warped disco productions for tape, features Jeremiah Jae on "Moonblood".

LTD TAPES & DIGI

Ssaliva - Moth to a Flame

LR084 - Cool Maritime - Some Sort of Wave Portal
WW release date 01.29.2016

Cool Maritime is the New Age synth wizardry of Sean Hellfritsch - named after the coastal region between San Francisco and Vancouver. "Coast Quest" was recorded in real-time to cassette using mini-modular synthesizer, re-201 space echo, and t.e. op-1. 

cover illustration by: Jesse Balmer 
jessebalmer.com/

Cool Maritime - Coast Quest

LR068 Odd Nosdam - Sisters
LP | VHS | DIGI avail now:
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/odd/sisters-1

SISTERS VINYL

Odd Nosdam - Sisters (Boards of Canada remix)

LR093 - Devonwho - Lyon EP
https://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/devonwho/lyon

Lyon is a long-awaited syrupy EP invention from potent electro-funk producer Devonwho. His long-standing seed in the modern beatmaker scene is credited by the formation of the Klip Mode collective with Knxwledge and Mndsgn back in 2009. Watch for a Devonwho full-length later in the year.

TAPES & DIGI

Devonwho - Lyon

LR093 Swarvy - Elderberry
https://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/swarvy/elderberry

Swarvy’s Elderberry comes crunchy and warm from the jazzy and soulsonic EP of some really raw beat-making. Hailing now from L.A., originally from Philadelphia, Leaving welcomes multi-instrumentalist & producer Swarvy to the circle of synergy. 

VINYL,TAPES,DIGITAL

Swarvy - Spam Grease (feat. Kiefer Shackelford)

Cakedog - Lightweight

LR023 Knx. - Buttrskotch

7" VINYL & FULL DIGITAL EP 
https://www.stonesthrow.com/store/ep/knx/buttrskotch-45


VINYL + DIGITAL

Knxwledge - asHºK∆ / j∆M.FRºZE

LP Pre-order
https://devonwho.bandcamp.com/album/luz

Devonwho’s Luz on Leaving is the Instrumental West Coast Beats full-length from influential Devon Fox. In 2009 he helped start Bandcamp phenomenon Klipmode with Knxwledge, Mndsgn, and Suzi Analogue. Moving up and down the coast for a few years, Devon is now based in Los Angeles creating his most potent melodically-driven Synthesizer Beat Music to date in an illuminating 39 minutes. Predominately an instrumental showcasing of Devon’s production and synth-playing - a few friends join: rapper/singer Zacky Force Funk, soul singer/producer I, CED, and blossoming emcee Pink Siifu.





LP PRE-ORDER

Devonwho - Cruisecontrol feat. Zackey Force Funk and I, CED

LP Pre-order
devonwho.bandcamp.com/album/luz

Devonwho’s Luz on Leaving is the Instrumental West Coast Beats full-length from influential Devon Fox. In 2009 he helped start Bandcamp phenomenon Klipmode with Knxwledge, Mndsgn, and Suzi Analogue. Moving up and down the coast for a few years, Devon is now based in Los Angeles creating his most potent melodically-driven Synthesizer Beat Music to date in an illuminating 39 minutes. Predominately an instrumental showcasing of Devon’s production and synth-playing - a few friends join: rapper/singer Zacky Force Funk, soul singer/producer I, CED, and blossoming emcee Pink Siifu.

Devonwho - Andthentherewas

LR118 - Kiefer - Kickinit Alone
Vinyl: http://bit.ly/2mmuYCc
Digital Album Download: http://bit.ly/2mmuYCc

Californian keyboardist & beatmaker Kiefer (birthname Kiefer Shackelford) has dropped his debut LP on LR, "Kickinit Alone".

Kiefer's Instagram is inspiring and may very well restore your faith in humanity, as will his Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/kiefdaddy
https://www.instagram.com/kiefdaddysupreme/

VINYL & DIGITAL ALBUM

Kiefer - U R What U Repeatedly Do

leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/draft
originally released in 2014 from Los Angeles artist Celia Hollander, the full-length experimental piano compositions of DRAFT are now reissued as a limited cassette + album-length video thru L.A.'s Leaving Records.

threethirtythree.biz
https://soundcloud.com/thr33thirtythr33

LTD. CASSETTE + DIGI

$3.33 - +

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar full-length album on ltd cassette and world wide digital June 15th

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - BOA

LR137 WILKES world wide release October 5th
www.leavingrecords.com
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"Tonight" features Sam Gendel on Alto Saxophone, Louis Cole on Drums, and Brian Green on Acoustic Guitar

VINYL

Sam Wilkes - Tonight

VINYL + DIGITAL
https://samwilkes.bandcamp.com

Sam Wilkes debut full-length WILKES is out everywhere October 5th 2018

Sam Wilkes - Descending

from the album ~~~
https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/-

Ana Roxanne is an intersex Southeast Asian musician based in Los Angeles. Born & raised in the Bay Area to immigrant parents, Ana's love for music and singing began through her mother's cd collection of 80's/90's R&B divas. Raised in the catholic church, she became a devout choir nerd and found any opportunity to sing, whether for religious mass, the jazz ensemble of her catholic high school, or karaoke at family gatherings. Her commitment to singing led her to a brief stint at a vocational jazz program in the cornfields of the midwest; in a remote town of 7,000 people, she began a formal study of jazz and classical music. During these years she would tour with her jazz and chamber ensembles to beautiful old cathedrals in nearby cities and became enamored with the sacredness of choral music, as well as the enveloping sound of harmony. 

A near death experience, too, served as a connection between music and spirituality, and music as a healing art after facing tragedy. 

In 2013, Ana was also fortunate enough to spend a few months in Uttarkhand, India where she met an incredible voice teacher who introduced her to classical Hindustani singing. Living and studying with this teacher deeply impacted her outlook on the voice as art. It was there that she began to see the singer - the Diva - as a symbol of divinity; that the unique power of one's voice comes from the vulnerability of using the body as an instrument. Be it romance, love, or worship of a deity - in order to access such depths of emotional expression, one must be willing to be intensely vulnerable, lay one's heart in the open air, expose what is kept hidden. This brief study was the catalyst that led her to finish her music study at the experimental Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she began to combine all of these influences into her current self-titled project. This album ~~~ was created during her last years residing in the Bay Area, a tribute to the great musicians who inspired her and the landscape where she spent her formative years. 

In addition to the worship of R&B and pop divas, Ana's current practice explores themes of gender & identity. In October of 2018, she decided to come out publicly as intersex, and is dedicated to being a voice for her community and speaking out about social justice for intersex youth.

Ana Roxanne - Nocturne

http://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com
recorded live at Union Station May 19 2019 as a part of Leaving Records' ongoing outdoor public concert series in Los Angeles, photo Jenn Kang

Ana Roxanne - Ooh Baby Baby (live at Union Station)

https://green-house.bandcamp.com/album/peperomia-seedling
Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni.

Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.

Their first release as Green-House, “Six songs for Invisible Gardens” (out Jan 15, 2020) was written with the intention of transforming the listening environment and augmenting domestic space. The music is designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them.

Green-House - Peperomia Seedling

http://green-house.bandcamp.com
Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni.

Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.

Their first release as Green-House, “Six songs for Invisible Gardens” (out Jan 15, 2020) was written with the intention of transforming the listening environment and augmenting domestic space. The music is designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them.

Green-House - Soft Meadow

"Anthology" drops June 11th via LR & Stones Throw digital + available as a limited collector’s edition double-cassette.

Leaving Records

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