🎶 KANTALAND – Hollywood Creative Label & Hub

Record Label interested in leftfield music that offers an interesting and exciting alternative to the drudgery of mainstream radio.

I started making music when I had doubts about it and I want to make music that is an "honest" reflection of the world.
There, free jazz energy contributes to a moment of meditation.

Hiroyuki Matsumoto 
keys, synths, guitar, voice
http://instagram.com/musicwouldbe

Very few bands can claim living DNA from their key influences within their sound, but Held By Trees is one. 
Inspired by the work of Mark Hollis, both with Talk Talk and as a solo artist, composer and producer David Joseph was encouraged by engineer Phill Brown who made Talk Talk’s seminal opus, Spirit of Eden. On showing Phill his demos, Phill put David in touch with drummer/percussionist Martin Ditcham,  a fellow veteran of the Talk Talk/Hollis records. Throughout 2020 and 2021, David connected with other Hollis alumni. The resulting recording process became the debut album, Solace, which hit the indie charts in April 2022. Featuring Robbie McIntosh, Tim Renwick (Pink Floyd), Mike Smith (Blur), David Knopfler (Dire Straits) and many others, Solace received warm reviews from the music press and listeners around the world. Follow up EPs arrived in 2023, Eventide and Solace - Live at Real World Studios, recorded with the main live Held By Trees iteration. A similar EP, this time with singer-songwriter, Martin Smith, followed in 2024. Meanwhile, Joseph was cooking up a second full length album, recorded with the same approach as Solace. Hinterland, the second album, broadens the sound of the project, reaching more ambient depths and noisier heights. Featuring members of Swans, Wire, Supergrass, Slowdive and Band of Susans, the album also introduces Mark Hollis’ son Charlie on piano; alongside the familiar veterans of his dad’s music, thus strengthening the projects lineage with Talk Talk.

Making music that people turn off after two to three seconds becuase it sounds horrible and cannot be considered as music. But I like it ! ;-)

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