U M B R E L L A B I R D S

The new album BACK TO LAND 🔮 out now!

Umbrellabirds is Sam Blickhan, Lewis Daly, and Alex Hunt. The band began as a long-distance recording project when Sam Blickhan and Lewis Daly began exchanging demos in 2013. Alex Hunt heard these sparsely beautiful demos and initially signed up to produce, but was soon recruited as a full band member. The intricate, autumnal debut album was recorded in 2014-16, the product of many late nights and countless miles of travel. Oda Almås played strings on the self-titled debut. Shortly thereafter, the band began work on their second album—Closing Ceremony (2020)—featuring a bigger sound and a wider collective of musicians including Shyam Prasad on drums, Will Harvey on strings, and Cath Day on clarinet. Their third album—BACK TO LAND—is out in November 2025. Umbrellabirds have been played on BBC 6 Music by DJ Tom Robinson and featured on the Fresh on the Net blog and the BBC Introducing Mixtape.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, and Deezer.

Bandcamp = https://umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com/

Twitter = https://twitter.com/umbrellabirdsuk

Insta = https://www.instagram.com/umbrellabirds

TikTok = https://www.tiktok.com/@umbrellabirds

Co-founder and MD, Leisure Recordings. 
Concept mixtape enthusiast.
Vigorous dancer.

Constantly putting out mixes, re-edits, mashups, podcasts, radio shows and DJ sets, Jon Leisure has been DJing since 1997.

Over the years he’s shared lineups with:

DJ Babu (Dilated Peoples)
Geoff Barrow (Portishead)
Jerry Dammers (The Specials)
Dimitri from Paris
Inspectah Deck (Wu Tang Clan)
Norman Jay
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Lady Miss Kier (Deelite)
Mousse T
The Nextmen
DJ Premier
Quantic
Roots Manuva
David Morales
DJ Spoony
Greg Wilson
DJ Yoda
Zero 7 

and...The Sugababes (the best line up too - Mutya, Keisha, Heidi)

Currently producing as https://soundcloud.com/mitsubio.

Followers of Ally Stuart