Other People is a record label started in New York City in 2013 by Nicolás Jaar. In its 10 years of existence, it has featured the sonic work of over 70 music releases, highlights include Terepa (2015), a "telepathic" collaboration helmed by Kohei Matsunaga (aka NHK’Koyxen) featuring Rashad Becker, Charlotte Collin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, Grégoire Simon and Kohei himself, Caves (2021), a compilation of silences featuring Laraaji, Aho Ssan, Ana Quiroga and more, Weavings (2022), a collaborative live piece with Juliana Huxtable, Ellen Fullman, Wukir Suryadi and Rully Shabara of Senyawa, Angel Bat Dawid and others. The label has also put out the 1990 spoken word piece "Conspiracy of Women" (2015) by Lydia Lunch, as well as Tomaga & Pierre Bastien's collaborative album entitled Bandiera di Carta (2019) and Lucrecia Dalt's Esotro / Veta release (2014) with remixes by William Basinski and John Wall. It has also featured the likes of Magdalena Dàugosz, Barbara Zawadzka, Bernadetta Matuszczak, Krzysztof Knittel, Bogusław Shaeffer, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Dienne, Charbel Haber, Okokon, Against All Logic, FKA Twigs, Darkside, Nicolás Jaar and others.  It has featured the visual work of Maziyar Pahlevan, Africanus Okokon, Zofia Kulik, Jena Myung, Charbel Haber, Abeera Kamran and Somnath Bhatt among others. The label’s current contract states that an artist on the label owns all their rights and decides the full percentage of the revenue they wish to make from their releases on the label, after recoupment. Any of the label’s profit gets given out to artists in forms of grants, workshop and educational initiatives. The label has collaborated in this form with more than three dozen exceptional organizations and individuals in the past three years. Although the label works not-for-profit, it is not a registered non-profit.

Contrary to popular belief, and what your ears may tell you, the songs posted on this blog were not recorded by Fleet Foxes, but rather one dude who impersonates Fleet Foxes using overdubbing and lots of reverb.

‘Every Shade of Blue ’ out NOW!
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Indie rock, but like, the cool kind, you know? | Boston, MA
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Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich use state-of-the-art sound design, mind-bending story-telling, and a sense of humor to ask big questions and blur the boundaries between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab is produced in New York at WNYC, and heard on over 300 public radio stations across the country.

A.J. Ellis will release his debut solo album Bury The Devil on April 1st, 2014 via Glaze Records. The New York City based British expat is best known as the front man of Five O’Clock Heroes, a band that saw success during the early to mid-2000s NYC revival. They toured along side the likes of Albert Hammon Jr. and developed a dedicated following both at home in NYC and abroad in the UK and Europe, winning over audiences with their what Time Out London described as a “feisty punk power pop” sound, and songs that NME praised for having the “power to creep into the subconscious.”

Born in the UK, Ellis came to the United States as a teenager in the mid-‘90s, initially living in upstate New York while playing in his brother Steve Ellis’ band The Simpletons (Columbia Records).  

Attracted to the music and the musician’s life, but wanting more, Ellis left The Simpletons after two years and moved to New York City to pursue his own path as a songwriter. Before forming the Heroes, Ellis’ first gigs consisted of open mic nights at New York City staples, such as The Sidewalk Cafe and The Raven Café, getting his feet wet with other upcoming artists, like Adam Green and Regina Spektor. 

Three years removed from the most recent Heroes’ album. Bury the Devil sees Ellis breaking out on his own again, putting his distinctive rough hewn vocals and Costello-esque guitar-pop songwriting style to great effect over the course of 11 tracks alternately tinged with country twang, bluesy refrains, and anti-folk aesthetics. The album also spans a wide emotional landscape. The upbeat “Dance All Night” is a rollicking kiss-off to responsibility and settling down, while “A Long Way Down” takes the listener on a brooding tour through deep despair. 

Bury The Devil was recorded in Leeds, England at Cannonball Studios and produced by George Riley(10,000 things, The Blacklisters, Heart Ships).  The album was mixed in Nashville, TN by Willie Breeding (The Breedings) and mastered by Duane Lundy (My Morning Jacket, Vandaveer) in Lexington, KY.


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