More beats like this guy in the works! Let me know what you think.

Leapah - Moving On

After absorbing a lot from the intersection of juke and jungle, here's a little song I wrote.

Don't worry bout me, I'll be in the sky floatin. 

Leapah - Floatin

surf |sərf|
noun
the mass or line of foam formed by waves breaking on a seashore or reef: the roar of the surf.


Leapah - Surf

DL: https://leapah.bandcamp.com/track/broken-china-feat-paper-void

Alberto Guzmán - vocals
Ella Cooley - vocals
Hannah Martinson - vocals
Gavin Leeper - guitar
Nathan Bickart - keyboards
Evan Gitterman - bass
Alex Favaro - drums
Matt Segall - tenor sax
Isaac Kofi Ghansah - trumpet

Composed by Gavin Leeper
Lyrics by Ella Cooley, Hannah Martinson, Alberto Guzman and Gavin Leeper

Recorded and engineered by Evan Gitterman at Fantasia Soundworks in Oakland, CA
Horns recorded by Henri Rapp at Badracket Studios is Cleveland, OH 
Mixed and Produced by Jules de Gasperis in Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Audible Oddities in Oakland, CA

Artwork by Lauren YS

Lyrics:

[Verse]
—and we will call this home
lay me down to rest
stole my heart and breath
our names carved in stone

[Chorus]

make me whole as you throw away
all the parts of me like broken china
play with what’s real
conflict with another plane of being
you’re a hole in my space-time fabric
a snake in my zen garden
you scribble out my perfect little story then I — 

[Verse]
is anybody home?
where you lay me down
when will you let me out?
how will you know?

[Chorus]

[Verse]
this is not a home
where you threw me down
maybe we just need some time
let me clear your mind

[Rap]
this is a letter to anonymous
you’ve intoxicated my mind and now it’s populous
teeming with the thoughts of just
rising, and escaping in this rocket ship
see i’m just glad that you let my heart exist
freely, I think you know i’d make a song of this
You’re my column sitting below my roof so I won’t fall or shift 
and it’s ironic that you have been my consciousness
through all of this guess and stressing and ultimate progression
out that mental slum i pondered in
you gave a better form of confidence
for me to go and accept and run with tolerance
see i just hope it’s not the end and done and call it quits
shit i could keep on venting till my pencil’s done and carbon lead is
needed, but it’s embedded in my common sense
not to make a move but lately you’ve consumed my thoughts
and it’s just like the moonlight blocking all the stars and such
you may not call it much but what we had was something obvious
   
what we had was something obvious
what we had was something obvious

[Verse]

this is not a home
where you threw me down
maybe we just need some time
let me clear your mind

[Chorus]

Leapah - Broken China (feat. Paper Void)

Getsu means moon and it represents the element of Void. The moon is also the heavenly body with the strongest Yin energy.

Gavin Leeper - guitar
Scott Takahashi - keys 
Alex Favaro - drums 
Evan Gitterman - bass
Divya Farias - alto sax 

Composed and Produced by Gavin Leeper
Mixed by Jules de Gasperis in Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Audible Oddities in Oakland, CA

Recorded and engineered by Evan Gitterman at Fantasia Soundworks in Oakland, CA

Leapah - Getsu

Live instrumentation of my song Ground.

Gavin Leeper - guitar
Scott Takahashi - keys 
Alex Favaro - drums 
Evan Gitterman - bass
Divya Farias - alto sax
Amrit Robbins - trumpet

Composed and Produced by Gavin Leeper
Mixed by Jules de Gasperis in Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Audible Oddities in Oakland, CA

Recorded and engineered by Evan Gitterman at Fantasia Soundworks in Oakland, CA

Leapah - Ground (Reprise)

My first album, Balance, is an instrumental expression of energy, the elements, and their manifestation in the body. It explores my influences in electronic music, jazz and math/post rock.

The title track here explores cycles, layers and development of a constant theme.

Leapah - Balance

Agni is both Sanskrit for "fire" and the name of the Hindu god of fire. In this song, Reuben and I explore our prog influences as well as two sides of fire: one sunny, hot and bright, and one destructive, mysterious and dark.

Leapah - Agni (feat. Reuben Moss)

Ground is the first track for my album Balance. It's meant to conjure a place of sanctuary that extra special people and pieces of art take me to.

I worked together with Couleurs on this one to mix a dreamy ambient soundscape with post-rock style clean guitar riffs.

Leapah - Ground (prod. Couleurs)

The music from the Zelda games is a huge influence of mine, so I recorded this little ditty after being inspired to learn it. Enjoy!

Zelda BOTW Main Theme (Rhodes Cover)

After watching 8-bit Music Theory's video about reharmonization techniques, I tried to use some on Mononoke Hime from Princess Mononoke.

Mononoke Hime (Piano Cover)

In this fourth incarnation of my song "Ground", I arranged it for guitar and string quartet. This was one of the first arrangements I made inspired by contemporary Japanese composers like Hisaishi and Sakamoto.

Ground

//Rhythm// 
//Harmony// 
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//Earlier work//
https://soundcloud.com/koan-productions

Gavin Leeper

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