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An artist-run label dedicated to releasing creative music and original visual art in limited runs.

08/21/2026

The next single, Key Bridge, from Janel Leppin - The Realist (OOYH 048), featuring Devra Hoff on bass and Chad Taylor on drums, is available now! You can check it out anywhere you stream or on Bandcamp (link in our bio). The full album comes out September 11, and we can’t wait to share it with you! As with all of our Fall releases, the color LPs are selling pretty quickly, so if you’d want a bubblegum pink version of the Realist, you might want to grab it sooner than later!

Super single cover for Key Bridge by Flash Boom Bang Tattoo, as is all the album artwork + design.

08/09/2026

Tomorrow night (Monday 8/10), OOYH Second Mondays at Artspace lineup. $10 for all of this, come welcome Gary back to town. See you there!

7:30pm Doors

8:00pm TRIO:
Will Evans - trumpet
Scott Clark - drums
Pippin Barnett - drums

8:30pm TRIO:
Gary Kalar - guitar
Rinatt Montoya - guitar
Adam Hopkins - bass

9:00pm SEXTET:
Will Evans -trumpet
Gary Kalar - guitar
Rinatt Montoya - guitar
Adam Hopkins - bass
Scott Clark - drums
Pippin Barnett - drums

08/07/2026

ANNOUNCING Utility Modern, the new band and forthcoming album by Brandon Seabrook, featuring the incredible lineup of Bill Frisell, Marcus Gilmore, and Rashaan Carter. Utility Modern (OOYH 049) releases October 2 on LP (both black and limited transparent fire orange), CD, and digital/streaming. The lacquer was cut by Josh Bonati and pressed at Gotta Groove, and the test pressings sound fantastic. They are in production and will ship before release day (heads up transparent fire orange are selling pretty fast and are limited to 100 copies).

You can check out the first single ‘The Guitar Is A Weather Event, Even’ anywhere you listen to music, link to the single and album pre-order in the comments.

Brandon on Utility Modern: “Ultimately, I wanted this music to sound like one giant guitar: a single instrument whose technical boundaries are stretched, blurred, and at times completely shattered. Bill and I share a profound love for the guitar—not just as an instrument, but as an endless vehicle for discovery. That shared devotion is at the heart of this music.”

The album cover features an image by Josef Albers, and the LP/CD layout + design are by TJ Huff. Band photo credit to Frank Heath.

Much more to share on this one soon, we are excited!

07/31/2026

Transparent, the first single from Janel Leppin - The Realist (OOYH 048) feat. Devra Hoff + Chad Taylor is out today! Listen via the link in the comments. The Realist comes out September 11 on LP + digital/streaming, and if you’re for a bubblegum pink LP grab one soon (they’re going fast).

Album art + design by Flash Boom Bang Tattoo. Big thanks for Brad Farberman for featuring the track today and for putting Janel on the cover of Tidal Modern Contemporary! Photo by Shervin Lainez.

Thanks for listening, more soon!

07/28/2026

ANNOUNCING our next Fall release, this one a new quartet from bassist and composer Stephan Crump, featuring a truly awesome quartet with David Leon, Kenny Warren, and Ches Smith. Passerine (OOYH 050) releases October 23 on LP + CD + digital/streaming. You can check out the first track Stuck now, only on Bandcamp along with a video via the link in the comments. From Stephan “This music was inspired by the various approaches to nest-building that birds engage in.”

Photo by Nathan James Leatherman, and the album cover features a beautiful original woodcut by TJ Huff. We’ll share that soon, and very much hope you enjoy this music!

07/24/2026

The first single from Marty Ehrlich - OPEN AIR: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill (OOYH 047) is now available to check out on all streaming as well as Bandcamp. Stick features Marty (soprano and alto saxophones) with Allan Chase (soprano and alto saxophones), Jason Robinson (tenor saxophone), and Brian Landrus (baritone saxophone).

CDs are being delivered to us next week, and we’ll start shipping them when we have them. So if you’d like an early preview of the full album, that’s the way!

There is a slight holdup with Apple Music, but it will be live there very soon (sorry for the delay if you are an Apple user!) You can listen via the link in the comments.

Single design by Flash Boom Bang Tattoo and the album art features a painting by the longtime associate of Julius Hemphill and Marty Ehrlich, Oliver Lee Jackson.

07/14/2026

ANNOUNCING the next of our Fall releases, Janel Leppin - The Realist (OOYH 048), featuring Janel on cello with Devra Hoff on bass and Chad Taylor on drums, out September 11 on LP (two options, get that Bubblegum Pink limited to 100 copies!) + digital/streaming. We’ve been admirers of Janel’s music since the Summer of 2010 when our mutual friend Susan Alcorn suggested they become a part of the OOYH Collective in Baltimore, and we’re thrilled to help get this music out into the world. The Realist Trio was formed to be a more tourable project than their larger Ensemble Volcanic Ash, and what an incredible trio it is.

There will be streaming singles released 7/31 and 8/21 but today you can hear a preview track, Walking Through a Party, only on Bandcamp. Link in our bio to check that out, and to pre-order the album. We’ll have much more on this one soon, and we’re so excited to share this music with you!

Photo by Mike Reina, album art + design by TJ Huff.

“Leppin is a cellist creating music you must hear.” —PopMatters

Janel Leppin’s Realist Trio:

Janel Leppin - cello, Prophet 5
Devra Hoff - bass
Chad Taylor - drums, mbira

07/09/2026

One more Wax Mage Records drop, the last of our Spring releases (Fall announcements coming soon!), this one for Adam O’Farrill - ELEPHANT. Adam has some big news being announced this week, so we’re dropping the Wax Mage in conjunction with that. The drop will be Friday July 10 at 12:00pm EST, $60, on the Bandcamp page for ELEPHANT. This is a Galaxy variant, and when we showed them to Adam he said they perfectly match the mood of the music, and we agree 100%. A few of these are already gone, as we offered them in a bundle a few months ago. It is a run of 25, and I think we have 18 to put up on Friday. Good luck to everyone hoping to grab!

“He’s quickly established himself as one of the most important musicians of the 21st Century” —NPR Fresh Air

“Elegant, exploratory, and emotionally dynamic.” —Qobuz, Albums of the Week

9/10 “ELEPHANT is O’Farrill’s most engaging and impressive recording to date. The album pops and jabs, hops and slithers. It has all the moves.” –PopMatters

“ELEPHANT is a band to watch.” –Stereogum

07/08/2026

We’re very sorry for the late announcement, but OOYH Records Second Mondays is cancelled for July 13. We’ll be back on August 10! Stay tuned for that announcement as well as our Fall concert lineup coming soon.

06/30/2026

We are thrilled to announce the first album from our Fall lineup, Marty Ehrlich - OPEN AIR: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill (OOYH 047), out August 28 on 2xCD and digital. This is a truly historic recording, and we are honored that Marty trusted OOYH to help in releasing it! Single announcements, etc coming soon, but today you can hear the first track ‘Open Air (for Tommy)’ only on Bandcamp via the link in our bio. The cover features the artwork of Julius Hemphill’s longtime collaborator Oliver Lee Jackson, layout and design by TJ Huff, and the 2xCD comes with 8-page liner notes by Marty, which you can also pre-order via the link in our bio.

From Marty:

This recording of the Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill (1938-1995) is a celebration of this composer’s fertile imagination and craft. While editing these scores into three published volumes, the desire grew in me to hear Julius’ vivid and evocative pieces close together, shining from the inside out. I’ve arranged them into six galleries, a curatorial path as are all exhibits. Oliver Lee Jackson’s painting on the cover leads us into the galleries. I welcome your steps through Open Air.

OPEN AIR is performed by:
MARTY EHRLICH
ALLAN CHASE
ROB DeBELLIS
BRIAN LANDRUS
ANDY LASTER
JEFF LEDERER
LISA PARROTT
JASON ROBINSON

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