https://batrypowr.bandcamp.com/album/un1ty-flute
Hundred Waters frontwoman Nicole Miglis records and performs experimental ambient as Batry Powr. In the spirit of the genre's luminaries (Joanna Brouk, Larkin, Laraaji, et al) - the 41 minutes of long-form music focuses on two meditations, supplemented with a digital-only remix from Mikey Maleki of Kodak to Graph.

Bonus: catch Nicole on the road with Bonobo internationally in 2022.

Batry Powr - Un1ty Flute

Jupiter's Purse EP coming Q2 2021 
produced by Black Taffy
mixed+mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen
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MATTIE is a mirror. She is an oracle of the SOL, and a watchperson over the keys to liberation guiding your experience via modalities of introspective visuals, lyrical self-inquiry, melody/harmony, experimental instrumentation, movement, meditation, and performance art.



Her sound? Experimental SOL. Her destination? Wholeness.



An experimental vocalist from Dallas, TX - MATTIE began singing in church at age four where she learned the basis of conventional gospel music. From there MATTIE has toured + recorded with Israel Houghton and New Breed, and received Dallas Observer Music Award nominations.

Human Thing

MATTIE - Human Thing

While Los Angeles mixed-media artist Celia Hollander is preparing her full-length album drop for Q2, Leaving Records presents the first tease from forthcoming Timekeeper.
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Timekeeper is a collection of temporal impressions. Each track is entitled with a time of day, mapping the ways that changes in energy and emotion form a continuously shifting sense of time. Using a palette of acoustic recordings and digital synthesis, each piece depicts either a temporal field (expansive, unpredictable), wave (swelling momentums) or rope (singular linearity).
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cover art by Celia Hollander

5:59 PM

Celia Hollander - 5:59 PM

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

Trance Farmers is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based outsider song-writer/guitarist/producer Dayve Samek. Dayve speaks of the track: “...a ballad about the idea of lasting forever. The reference is from Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams”. While we may think our time, experiences & sensations are ephemeral and fleeting, in another sense they are also forever.

More music from Farmers & Nosdam soon

"Like Dreamers Do"
produced by Odd Nosdam and Trance Farmers
mixed by Aaron McIntosh
mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen
photo Marlon Magneè (La Femme)

Trance Farmers - Like Dreamers Do (feat. Odd Nosdam)

Sam Wilkes - Pretty

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

batrypowr.bandcamp.com/album/un1ty-flute 
Hundred Waters frontwoman Nicole Miglis records and performs experimental ambient as Batry Powr. In the spirit of the genre's luminaries (Joanna Brouk, Larkin, Laraaji, et al) - the 41 minutes of long-form music focuses on two meditations, supplemented with a digital-only remix from Mikey Maleki of Kodak to Graph.

Bonus: catch Nicole on the road with Bonobo internationally in 2022.

03 Batry Powr - Un1ty Flute (Mikey's Zither Mix)

batrypowr.bandcamp.com/album/un1ty-flute Batry Powr is the experimental ambient/new age project from Hundred Waters frontwoman Nicole Miglis. In the spirit of the genre's luminaries - the ambient music of Un1ty Flute focuses on two long-form meditations, supplemented with a remix from Mikey Maleki of Kodak to Graph.  Bonus: catch Nicole on the road with Bonobo internationally in 2022.

01 Batry Powr - Un1ty Flute

02 Batry Powr - ii

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

SUPERSTORE

13_SUSTAIN_02_mstr2

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

"Down To Earth Vol. 2 (The Standard Bap Edition)" World Wide release on Vinyl, Cassette, and Digital formats 12/9/2014

Ras G - Take It Slow

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

2014 Leaving Records

Cakedog - CakeUp

LR058 
yuk - a n a k
cassette now available for purchase, full digital and vinyl 06.23
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/yuk/a-n-a-k

VINYL & TAPES

yuk - home

4th & FINAL VOLUME OF RAW FRUIT
GET YOUR TAPES from STONES THROW (ltd 300):
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/rasg/raw-fruit-v4

VINYL

Ras G - Black Daffi`s Revenge (feat. Jeremiah Jae)

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

The Middle Sister advance Vinyl LP is now available via Leaving Records / Stones Throw direct, out World Wide Jan 15th, 2016. http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/guyblakeslee/the-middle-sister

Los Angeles' Guy Blakeslee is visionary guitarist from Entrance / The Entrance Band. The Middle Sister is new territory for a Blakeslee recording album: 100% instrumental movements for acoustic and electric guitar recorded to & from magnetic tape. 19min Side A envelops two migrations of acoustic guitar within particles of acoustic piano ambiance and tibetan singling bowl texture. 20min Side B continues upon the melodic motif beginning within an electric domain of resonant drone. As the movements mature, the listener is carried into a climax of krautrock trance, dissolving into a liberating resolution of experimental harmonics and noise. The Middle Sister represents a master craftsman for a generation seeking hope, finding truth.

GORGEOUS VINYL

Guy Blakeslee - Halcyon Movement 2

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)

LR089 Benedek - Coolin' - EP
ltd cassette + digital EP now available:
www.leavingrecords.com

Nicky Benedek was born and bred to funk in the City of Angels. He spent his early creative energy observing and integrating outsider dance and funk scenes in underground music culture into his own breed of production for his first full-length on the influential PPU label. His compositions carry the torch of funk into the wondrous and nebulous territories of house, boogie, hip-hop, jazz-fusion, and experimental new age. With an arsenal of analog synthesizers, drum machines, and electric guitars, he’s making moves in the L.A. underground by welcomed way of Funkmosphere, Dublab, and Leaving Records community with a strong strut.

TAPES + DIGI

Benedek - Coolin'

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)

LR023 Knx. - Buttrskotch

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


VINYL + DIGITAL

Knxwledge - asHºK∆ / j∆M.FRºZE

DANG RELEASE SEPT 23rd 2106:
BUY DANG VINYL NOW: http://bit.ly/2cozu1H

Edwin Mathis White (from the band Tonstartssbandht) creates a capella DIY gospel as Eola using loop stations and vocal processing effects pedals recorded to tape. On stage or on tape, Ed's performance is dang spiritual. Edwin currently lives and grew up in Downtown Orlando, Florida but has spent the past 11 years living mostly in NYC, and sometimes in Montreal & Baltimore. The album Dang drops Sept. 23rd with Leaving Records on Vinyl, Cassette, and Digital. Blessed be.

Eola  - B and O Blues

"A V" album release date November 4th 2016 on Leaving Records
Video: http://bit.ly/2cpvKho

LP Pre-order 
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2bY0OPV
iTunes/Apple Music: http://apple.co/2cpwzah


Surface to Air Missive - Time Being

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

VINYL + DIGI: http://bit.ly/2cr0cTn

Kindred spirits Boards of Canada and Teebs make an appearance in dreamy collaboration with Odd Nosdam's Sisters Remix EP. Throughout, the producers split time between cosmic, slow burning beats and reflective soundscapes littered with intriguing textures and mind-bending samples. Analogue sounds are generous and knowingly manipulated. Gorgeous samples are deployed, sturdy yet emotional. Cymbals explode.

"When the sun finally breaks through on an overcast day, Sisters was very much inspired by that wonderful moment… and the longing for it."

Odd Nosdam - Endless feat. Teebs

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

Sam Wilkes - Tonight

VINYL NOW SHIPPING, WORLD WIDE RELEASE DATE FEB 15 2019
https://blacktaffy.bandcamp.com/album/elder-mantis

Black Taffy - Lantern Flies In Mist

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)

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.

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