Palmy, the sidewalk palm tree
A Soundscape Created by The Growth Eternal (TGE)
For An Environmental Music series from Leaving Records and Metro Art 

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"Palmy is a little palm tree. And they're growing up, just like you! This song is about both of you growing up. Palmy wrote it after they saw you walking by them. You were on your way to Union Station. Does Palmy's song sound like a journey to Union Station to you?"

Inspired by the sidewalk landscapes of Los Angeles and the way a child might experience the natural world on a daily walk, "Palmy, the sidewalk palm tree" is a playful original soundscape written from the point-of-view of a sproutling that has rooted itself on a small patch of earth. It watches people of all ages and backgrounds on their way to places the neighborhood tree can only imagine from the sights and sounds that surround it.  

The track was created using field recorded sounds, synthesizer, three plants via PlantWave, and a dog.

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Written, performed and produced by The Growth Eternal 
Mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

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June-July
Part of An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records

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The Growth Eternal (TGE) was started in 2018 as a project stemming from artist Byron Crenshaw’s direct experience and interest in bringing together disparate parts of the self. Crenshaw is a Tulsa-born, Dallas-taught, Black-living, spiritual being who currently lives in Koreatown. He started playing music professionally at 15 years old when he fell in love with jazz after hearing John Coltrane and Duke Ellington's rendition of "In a Sentimental Mood." After attending the University of North Texas and graduating in 2019 with a Jazz Bass Degree, he decided to move to California to pursue a more honest and creative path for himself in music. Eternally he grows, learning as he goes. 

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About An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records: 

Metro Art teamed up with Leaving Records to ask four LA based musicians who draw inspiration from the landscape to create original music soundscapes evoking experiences of nature and transportation in Los Angeles with historic Union Station at its center.

Palmy, the Sidewalk Palm Tree

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Palmy, the sidewalk palm tree A Soundscape by The Growth Eternal  // Metro Art x Leaving Records

Flora Urbana
A Soundscape Created by Green-House
For An Environmental Music series from Leaving Records and Metro Art

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"Flora Urbana" is an exploration of the anthropogenic environments in which we live. With the intention to dissolve the illusory barriers between humans and nature, Green-House utilized field recordings of small pockets of "natural" sounds as they walked through densely populated city parks. The field recordings are blended with software synthesizers, samplers, and virtual instruments to symbolize the potential harmony that can be achieved between us and the rest of the ecosystem.

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Written, performed and produced by Green-House
Mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

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July-August
Part of An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records

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Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni.
Approaching their music 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. Green-House's latest full-length album "Music For Living Spaces" was released in May of this year. The record is an extension of their desire to encourage people to connect with their existing surroundings.

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About An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records:

Metro Art teamed up with Leaving Records to ask four LA based musicians who draw inspiration from the landscape to create original music soundscapes evoking experiences of nature and transportation in Los Angeles with historic Union Station at its center.

Flora Urbana

Flora Urbana A Soundscape by Green-House  // Metro Art x Leaving Records

To All Trains
A Soundscape Created by Celia Hollander
For Union Station 2021
Part of An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records

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"To All Trains" takes its inspiration from Union Station as the largest railroad terminal hub in the western part of the U.S. with approximately 110,000 people passing through every day.  The piece begins by exploring the perspectives of being an individual navigating a crowd while simultaneously viewing the organized chaos of a swarm from a distance, such as observing a beehive.  As Union Station connects travelers to local and international destinations, the soundscape expands in frequency range and instrumentation to explore the harmonies of being a part of a complex system with many moving parts. 
Resisting the binary of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial,’ Hollander merges digital and acoustic sound sources and processes. "To All Trains" is an expression of striving to fathom the full scope of the interdependent networks that our species inhabits, creates and embodies, as a foundation for sustainability.

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Written, performed and produced by Celia Hollander
Mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

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August-September
Part of An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records
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About An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records:

Metro Art teamed up with Leaving Records to ask four LA based musicians who draw inspiration from the landscape to create original music soundscapes evoking experiences of nature and transportation in Los Angeles with historic Union Station at its center.

To All Trains

To All Trains A Soundscape by Celia Hollander  // Metro Art x Leaving Records

Sam Wilkes - Pretty

from "To Live & Die In Space & Time" CS
https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/to-live-die-in-space-time

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - "Plantwood (Day)"

6 birthday tracks dedicated to my love, elvira!

To Elvira From Ivy With Love

A special mixtape courtesy of Listen To This!:
http://www.listentothis.info

Tracklisting / Liner Notes:
http://www.self-titledmag.com/2015/10/09/listen-to-this-present-omg-japan-a-mixtape-of-experimental-japanese-music/

OMG JAPAN: Rare & Experimental Japanese Pop (1980 - 1989)

A new mix from our friend Dj Lil' Tuts. Perfect for bringing in the new season. Open up those windows and hear the birds chirpin :) 
Featuring tunes from Saint Etienne, Inga, Charles de Crema, Rexy, Madonna and more!




Spring 2 Mix -  Dj Lil' Tuts

Various Songs of Worship

*debut LP Temporary Music out Jan31 2020, vinyl now shipping*
http://asatone.bandcamp.com
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Asa Tone is Jakarta-born Melati Malay and New York based Tristan Arp and Kaazi. In January 2018 the trio travelled to Indonesia during Melati’s annual return home, set up a temporary studio in a house nestled in the jungle’s canopy and recorded a series of improvisational pieces together, later edited for brevity. The music incorporates both digital and analogue processing and largely draws upon the groups collective voice, a small selection of instrumentation (Rindik, Moog Sub 37, Infinite Jets, Suling) and their immediate environment. Despite this, they aimed to record a kind of music together that doesn’t seem to come from one specific place, but instead, from everywhere.

The result is an idiosyncratic voyage of equatorial excursions in voice, mallets and synthesis, both transportative and fluid, yet firmly grounded in the earth. Cyclical, randomized patterns grow and blossom during these often delicate and heartfelt renderings, staying with the listener long after both sides fall silent.

Temporary Music LP will be released on January 31 2020 on Leaving Records. It is the group’s debut album.

VINYL

Asa Tone - Visit From Tokay

A live improvisation by Cool Maritime & Matthewdavid's Mindflight.

Recorded July 16th, 2018 at the 3rd edition of the "Listen to Music Outside in the Daylight Under a Tree" series of outdoor environmental music concerts from Leaving Records and Tierra de la Culebra in Highland Park Los Angeles.

All genre ~ All welcome.

These events are currently on pause, but I look forward to the day they resume, and we can once again gather, listen and rejoice.

Cool Maritime and Matthewdavid's Mindflight Under The Tree 7.16.18

Enriching Los Angeles's diverse and vibrant cultural landscape by bringing visual and performing arts to the Metro system. 
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