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The Gate
*100 copies limited edition* Welsh musician Aisha Vaughan presents The Gate. It is upon us to renew the deep-cut, heavy-weighted melancholy of Celtic New Age for 2024. New Age music from the Celtic/British Isles crossed over into the mainstream in the late 80s - notably with Enya (and her band Clannad), the perhaps now lesser-known instrumental Celtic harp music of Patrick Ball, and the slew of now mostly forgotten various artist compilations that saturated the New Age CD and cassette music mark…
Dream Trio
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, informed by Norwegian traditional music and experimental improvised music.
Bird Bath
After two years since second effort Eurybia, Francesca Heart returns to Leaving Records with a new seven-tracks album detailing the progress in her personal musical lore. Bird Bath expands on the musician’s childlike cosmic approach, crafting new tales where feelings and symbols of unearthly love and possibility, inner protection and desire become the album’s pillars.
An iteration of the artist’s interest in mediterranean mythology and the evolution of sacred icons, Bird Bath begins with the fi…
The Doober
Sam Gendel on C-Melody Saxofone and Wilkes on Fender P-Bass, arrangements of selected material and original compositions - a document of specific variations in instrumentation, sound, and repertoire, with a focus on melody, execution of arrangement, and total freedom
The Doober follows the release of Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar (2018) and Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs (2021).
Subtle Movements
"In the spirit of expansive expression; deep connection to the Sea as it furthers the Sound. The rumination of consideration put forth thru a profound triumvirate of Beings, Fathers, Sons, Family Members, Loved Ones. The Most Powerful Movements of Love are Subtle. They are sublime. They are felt before and after any note is played by the three of us. We are supportive of each other as people, in the true spirit of a Trio. Equilateral in the degrees of consideration towards each portion of our h…
Solar Editions
Green-House's latest EP is a collection of unheard & rare recordings from 2021 & 2022. Imaginary department stores, Wendy Carlos-infused virtual classical, soundscape slices and bonus tracks are all situated radiantly along the spectrum of Solar Editions.
All Songs Written & Performed by Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan Mastering by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen
Six Songs For Invisible Gardens
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 designe…
I Hope You Are Well
Lionmilk's I Hope You Are Well meditation is 57 minutes of souljazz ambient therapy from LA native pianist and producer Moki Kawaguchi. Originally, this album was home-dubbed cassette-only music selectively dropped in mailboxes of close friends & family who may have been struggling with anxiety & depression during early 2020 pandemic shutdown. In late 2020, Leaving Records teamed with Lionmilk to officially release.
Sauco
Sonic journey crafted to cultivate poetic gestures amidst Fauna, Flora, Fungi, Mineral Waters, Wind, and Earth. Each track is an exploration of sound's constant transformation, akin to dragonfly particles swimming in the air. Like waves occupying a space in the spectrum, the compositions work with the movement, condensation, and lightness of the air.
A Host for All Kinds of Life
*2024 stock*
In an era of rampant, man-made climate chaos, “solastalgia” (the longing and distress experienced by individuals as a response to environmental change/degradation) has emerged as a useful, semi-viral concept — a catch-all term for the pervasive sense that the world as we know it is far from well, and only growing less so. But, for many of us, a problem, a trap, an ineffable hollowness, exists at the very crux of this concept/premise: how can we mourn (or even sense the loss of) tha…
Red Moon
Low Leaf is the long-running and multivalent project of Los Angeleno and multi-instrumentalist Angelica-Marie. Riding the wake of 2023’s Microdose—melding/channeling free jazz, astrology, hip-hop, eco-spirituality, and geo-political anger—Red Moon is a tight, three-song release, a snapshot of Low Leaf during an especially dynamic period. Having received training in classical piano as a child, Low Leaf is equally adept as a self-taught guitarist, harpist, and producer. Indeed, these four elements…
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2024 stock. “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 vo…
Delight
Delight, Arushi Jain’s follow-up to 2021’s seminal Under the Lilac Sky, out March 29 2024 on Leaving, carries, at its core, the simple proposition that delight is accessible and that the practice of cultivating it is a necessary endeavor. Weaving together emotions, imagery, and a sense of yearning for beauty, Jain aims to instill belief in the ever-present nature of delight, asserting the need to actively seek it when not readily found. The enhanced perception of this elusive emotion, Jain asser…
Intercommunications
*150 copies limited edition* Paige Emery is an artist, herbalist, and plant dreamer exploring ways of remembering the Earth. Her music practice is intertwined with visual and performance art, plant medicine and healing rituals, all of the expressions affecting one another. Paige’s previous musical work has been in the context of performing sound pieces for healing rituals within art installations and gardens to guide people through ecological journeys within a site-specific place.Intercommunicat…
Caught in Pointers
*200 copies limited edition* andrew cs is a many media artist & creative programmer from the american midwest. exploring recursive time loops through their own digital memories, andrew’s sound blends captured spaces with bending synthesized loops improvised on custom software. following a half-chance encounter with a field recorder as a teen, andrew began cataloging moments of temporary calm - archiving disk drives of present textures in conversation with a future self. following 2021’s “*” EP, …
Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar (Tape)
jazz milestone from Los Angeles-based musicians Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes. Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar is a collection of recordings captured live on a Marantz PMD-720 4-Track Cassette Recorder at Mh Zh and Pacê between November 2017 - February 2018 in Los Angeles, CA
4th edition of 500 units*4th edition cover art, reversible JCard*4th edition clear cassette shell*album audio in-full on both sides*shrink-wrapped
Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs
The follow-up to 2018's underground jazz milestone from Los Angeles-based musicians Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes. Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs collects nine additional songs from the duo. Performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Sam Gendel + Sam Wilkes additional bass by Daniel Aged
*2nd edition of 500 units*2nd edition reversible JCard*black shell, sticker label*album audio in-full on both sides*shrink-wrapped
Cloud Suites
California’s Nico Georis has always straddled (or, rather, negotiated) multiple dimensions. As a child, Georis flitted between the rigors of classical training and DIY experimentation—studying under a disciple of Franz Lizst (a mentorship that would enshrine the piano as his primary instrument), then squirreling away to the basement of his childhood home, strewn as it was with his father’s instruments and home-audio equipment, to play and record freely. Despite his evident virtuosity as a traine…
blueblue
blueblue is a concise, tightly wound song suite by multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel whose 14 tracks each correspond to a pattern within sashiko, a traditional style of Japanese embroidery.
Music for Living Spaces
Leaving Records presents Music For Living Spaces, the debut LP by non-binary Los Angeles-based artist Green-House. Olive Ardizoni helms the project, which made its debut with the charming 2019 EP Six Songs for Invisible Gardens. Music for Living Spaces represents an evolution of its predecessor’s minimalist compositions into songs that move with winsome melodies and emotional arcs. Though recorded during a pandemic, the transporting nature of Music For Livings Spaces offers a remedy for drearine…