Lyte Records is an independent record label founded by Irish musician, songwriter and producer David Lyttle in 2007.

Founded in 2015, Stoney Lane is an inventive, independent artist-led record label, growing out of a whole host of musical inventions, collaborations, experiments, friendships and performances, centered around the city of Birmingham, UK. We focus on distinctive and exciting new music and people that we love, venturing wherever the music takes us – often with jazz at its core, yet crossing the eclectic worlds of improvisation to contemporary classical, electronics to world and roots-inspired music.

Stoney Lane supports and develops exceptional young UK musicians, alongside internationally touring and established artists, whilst releasing only a select number of albums each year as we strive to maintain the artistry, adventure and surprise of our records. We still produce lovely physical releases on both CD and vinyl, from limited edition hand pressings to experimental artwork and original design, alongside properly-nurtured HQ audio.

Already the Stoney Lane catalogue is home to recordings featuring the exceptional and thriving talents of Chris Mapp, Hans Koller, Mike Fletcher, Percy Pursglove and Sara Colman, to young musicians burgeoning from Birmingham and beyond, including Alex Woods, Ben Lee, Jonathan Silk, Mark Pringle, Xhosa Cole and Young Pilgrims, to leading lights Arve Henriksen, John O’Gallagher, Stan Sulzmann, Steve Swallow and the NDR Bigband. 

We produce an ongoing live programme of Stoney Lane artists at London's King's Place, and also run the official Cheltenham Jazz Festival record store for the six days of the festival each spring.  In 2020, we co-produced Around The Houses, an online jazz festival and musicians' fundraiser soon after the onset of the pandemic, with dozens of online performances, podcasts and four new commissions premiered with Jazzwise, bringing tens of thousands of views from over 30 countries worldwide.

2023-24 sees the adventurous new Stoney Lane Live series launching in Birmingham, supported by Arts Council England, bringing prominent UK, US and European artists to the city, spanning the musical roots weaving through jazz, improvisation, flamenco, Arabic, Eastern European and Indian music, alongside three new commissions, collaborations with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Flatpack Film Festival and Birmingham City University, and a strong line of musicians from the city playing and recording alongside visiting international artists.

Forthcoming 2023 releases include saxophonist Paul Dunmall’s Big Band recording; a beautiful new duo project from vocalist Sara Colman and pianist Rebecca Nash; the debut from guitarist Steve Banks; young pianist Dave Ferris featuring US guitarist Peter Bernstein; and the long-awaited Far Reaching Dreams of Mortal Souls suite from trumpeter Percy Pursglove.

Lauren Kinsella – voice, synth
Laura Jurd – trumpet, keys
Alex Roth – guitar, effects
Corrie Dick – percussion

"Sublime... highly original...An important, even a landmark debut recording." 5 stars
- Roger Farbey, All About Jazz

"A genuinely uncategorisable venture – merging many sources, but emerging with a unique creative signature." - John Fordham, The Guardian

"Inspirational music drawing on a myriad of influences created by a bunch of extremely talented and musically articulate individuals." 4 stars - Kieran Bohane, The Irish Examiner

Mark Pringle is a British pianist and composer based in Berlin, working at the intersection of various forms of composed and improvised music.

"Mark Pringle is an exceptionally gifted pianist and composer, and a remarkable improviser" - John Taylor

I create music using vibraphone, dulcimer, electronics and small instruments. My music contains elements of jazz, folk from different countries, and electronica.

Most of the things here are available to download and remix non-commercially. Please feel free, and let me know.



Questio io brings together six of the most exciting musicians from Glasgow’s increasingly interconnected folk and jazz scenes. Sitting somewhere between the two genres the band is “a mesmerising fusion of folk and jazz” resulting in “something utterly surprising and totally fascinating”!

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