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Sam Gendel is known for his work with saxophones and wind controllers. Benny Bock is a keyboardist, composer, producer and sound designer from Oakland, California. Hans Kjorstad is a musician and composer in the field of contemporary microtonal music, inf

Their third album as a duo, The Doober, finds Sam Gendel on C-Melody Saxofone and Sam Wilkes on Fender PBass, featuring arrangements of selected material and original compositions. The album is a document of specific variations in instrumentation, sound a

Everything has changed, and it is changing still. The early days of 2025 (an already baleful year, vis-a-vis America’s darkening political horizon) have wrought heretofore unimaginable destruction in the land we now call Los Angeles. The wildfires that be

New York-based collective toso toso announces their self-titled debut, out November 7th, 2025 via Leaving Records. The album delivers an exploratory vision of avant-pop, where free improvisation meets intricate form. Tender and furious, the band navigates

Luke Schneider’s new EP 'For Dancing in Quiet Light' finds the pedal steel guitarist further refining his singular ambient vocabulary—gentle, resonant, and quietly radiant. Following two releases on Third Man, this Leaving Records debut is inspired by the

TRANSMUTANCIA presents music caught in the act of becoming. Raw, luminous, and alive. Born from a one hour improvisation at Morphine Raum in Berlin, this site specific performance rattles through concepts of creation. What might it feel like, sound like,

Acclaimed Californian harpist Nailah Hunter unites with debuting theremin player Alia Mohamed for a hauntingly minimalist performance of Harold Budd's "The Pavilion of Dreams". The rendition concept was initially conceived and performed by the two musicia

Sam Gendel is known for his work with saxophones and wind controllers. Benny Bock is a keyboardist, composer, producer and sound designer from Oakland, California. Hans Kjorstad is a musician and composer in the field of contemporary microtonal music, inf

ᵒ˶°´ is the first entry in an ongoing series exploring the world of insects and other macroinvertebrates. inspired by a shift in perspective informed by personal experiences with these animals, each song invites the listener into the mind of a bug — to im

Electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer Cole Pulice traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On the meditative ambient jazz of Land’s End Eternal, Cole adds a welcome new texture with the introduction of the electric guitar, an instrumen

The debut full-length album from the Los Angeles duo Sam Gendel and Sam Wilkes. Gendel plays Alto Saxofone and electronics, while Wilkes plays Bass Guitar and electronics. Pitchfork Media says "The discombobulating lines are sonically wild but technically

Leaving Records founderperson Matthewdavid presents the On Mushrooms EP, a primer for the Mycelium Music album to be released Q2 2023. Both works are expressed from the same ecosystem, cut from the same cloth. The following is a listening experience testi

34-song SUPERSTORE is the Sam Gendel all genre follow-up album to 2021's 52-song Fresh Bread. SUPERSTORE is more unreleased music from the enigmatic producer/saxophonist collected from personal archives of solo recordings and collaborations in various ven