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

15/12/2025

REX, the debut solo album by cellist Christopher Hoffman, releases January 16, 2026, on LP, CD, and digital, and is a tribute to one of America’s great bird artists, Rex Brasher (1869–1960).

12/12/2025

OUT TODAY!! The title track and first single from Tomeka Reid Quartet’s dance! skip! hop! (OOYH 041) is out now, featuring Reid on cello, with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Jason Roebke on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums. The track is available to listen on Bandcamp and limited streaming services (Tidal, Qobuz, and Apple) via the link in the comments. Full album comes out February 13, there is a NYC pre-release show at Winter Jazz Fest/Baby’s All Right on January 10, and if you happen to be in Japan the quartet is on tour there for the rest of December!

Album photography is from Tomeka’s family, and the art/design is by TJ Huff. LPs will be ready and shipping by January, and if you are hoping for a Cello Case Green copy (limited 100) we suggest pre-ordering because they are going fast. CDs are in stock and shipping early. Thanks to everyone for listening, we’re so excited to share this music with you!

08/12/2025

CANCELLED! We are sorry to say that due to the roads getting very bad in Richmond we have decided to cancel tonight’s OOYH Second Monday’s at (12/8). Please mark your calendars for Monday January 12, when we’ll be hosting Ches Smith’s Clone Row at instead of Artspace, featuring Ches with Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman, and Nick Dunston. Stay tuned, tickets should be going on sale later this week via Révéler!

05/12/2025

Snow Owls, the next single off forthcoming album REX (out 1/16) is out today! We love every track on this record, but this is one of our favorites. The REX Pipesmoke Blue/Green color LP and a few signed test pressings are up on Bandcamp now as well. Original art by .brasher and album design by TJ Huff. Link in our bio, enjoy!

04/12/2025

Hello Everyone! Bandcamp Friday is tomorrow (you probably already know this) and we’re putting up a bunch of great stuff, with LP bundles at a big discount. Here’s everything that will be up tomorrow morning, some will go very fast!

Tomeka Reid - dance! skip! hop! CELLO CASE GREEN LP (Limited 100): $28

Christopher Hoffman - REX Pipesmoke Blue/Black Swirl LP (Limited 100): $28

Christopher Hoffman - REX Signed Test Pressing LP (Limited 8): $40

OOYH Spring 2025 LP Bundle 50% Discount (Limited 25): $85

***incudes Sun & Rain - Waterfall, Tim Berne - Yikes, Nick Dunston - COLLA VOCE: Praylewd, Christopher Dammann Sextet, Laura C***s - FATHM, Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets (2xLP), and The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill with good shipping rates worldwide***

OOYH 2x2xLP Bundle 30% Discount - Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets + Webber/Morris Big Band - Unseparate (limited 25): $50

***we know 2xLP are crazy expensive, so this is a chance to get both of our incredible 2025 2xLP at a big discount together with good shipping rates worldwide***

WAX MAGE Discounts:

Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets 2xLP 25% OFF (very limited): $75

Webber/Morris Big Band - Unseparate 2xLP 25% OFF (very limited): $75

Laura Ann Singh - Mean Reds 33% OFF (very limited): $50

All of this will go up at 9:00am on outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com

Thanks as always for the continued support!

03/12/2025

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21/11/2025

OUT NOW! We are so excited to announce that WRENS - Half of What You See (OOYH 039) is out today, available in LP/CD/digital formats on Bandcamp, and streaming everywhere (except Spotify). Link to all in the comments!

It is listed today in Pitchfork’s “10 New Albums You Should Listen To Now” in addition to a stellar review yesterday by Jude Noel . We put up the transparent purple vinyl options for sale on Bandcamp, and there are two more crazy color options coming soon of the LP...we expect to have them in hand any day now, CDs now shipping. Insane album art by TJ Huff, one of our favorite covers to date. We hope you enjoy this!

“Dense, chaotic, and thrilling, with electroacoustic abstraction grounded by casual humor and intentional collaboration.” —Pitchfork

WRENS is:

Ryan Easter - trumpet, voice, words
Elias Stemeseder - synths, una corda piano
Lester St. Louis - cello, electronics
Jason Nazary - drums, synths

19/11/2025

ANNOUNCING our second record of 2026, Tomeka Reid - dance! skip! hop! (OOYH 041) out February 13, 2026 on LP, CD, and digital! The Tomeka Reid Quartet is Tomeka on cello with Mary Halvorson - guitar, Jason Roebke - bass, and Tomas Fujiwara - drums. Tomeka has been featured on a few of our past releases (The Hemphill Stringtet, Tomas Fujiwara - Pith), but we are thrilled to be presenting this incredible album for her first release as a leader on OOYH. There is a preview excerpt up now only at Bandcamp (link in comments), with singles coming out for dance! skip! hop! and Oo long! on 12/16 and 1/23 (they will only be on Bandcamp, Qobuz, Tidal, and Apple). CDs are in stock, and LPs are way ahead of schedule so get those orders in because we expect them to go fast. If you prefer color vinyl, we have a few very cool options that will be announced soon (and if you know the color of Tomeka’s cello case, that’s a hint). Album art + design by TJ Huff, recorded by Curtis Fye, and mixed/mastered by Nick Lloyd, photo by Guy Peters. Also, if you live in Japan be sure to check the quartet’s tour schedule in December, as they are coming to a city near you. Much much more on this release coming soon, thanks for listening!

On dance! skip! hop! live: “The Tomeka Reid Quartet made the case at the Vortex for jazz of the highest quality, working around deceptively complex compositions which flipped from crisp, synchronised interplay to spells of demanding improvisation.” —UK Jazz News

12/11/2025

WRENS - Half of What You See comes out Friday November 21. Great review from in slide 2! LPs should be in any day now, stay tuned for some sweet color variations. Handstamped CDs shipping now.
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10/11/2025

TONIGHT at Artspace Richmond, a duo of Nicole Mitchell + JoVia Armstrong in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the AACM. 7:30pm doors, 8:00pm music, $20. Details in the comments!

06/11/2025

ANNOUNCING our first record of 2026 (out 1/16), Christopher Hoffman’s debut solo cello album, REX (OOYH 040), a tribute to the American watercolor painter and ornithologist Rex Brasher. The first single Rex (previous version was just a sample) is out now, streaming and on Bandcamp (link in the comments).

We are doing a few different versions of the LP, all featuring a beautiful gatefold of Brasher’s painting Swallow Tail Kite, a font TJ Huff created from Brasher’s own handwriting for the cover and back, and an 11 x 11 insert. LPs will be in stock any day now, and we will be shipping them as soon as we have them, approximately 2 months before release day. The other special edition LPs (25 Wax Mage, 50 Robin’s Egg Party Monsters, and 100 opaque Pipe Smoke) will go on sale on December 5, so if you prefer a color option we recommend waiting until then. We also did a limited run of 200 hand stamped CDs, which come with the insert and Swallow Tail Kite and they should begin shipping in the next two weeks. We are so excited to share this with you, much more soon!

From Chris:

REX is a solo cello record written and recorded while I’ve been living in the former home of Rex Brasher, a self-taught painter who created over 1,200 watercolors of North American birds. Composed for acoustic and electric cello, the record reflects the solitude and intensity that shaped both Brasher’s vision and my own process. Rex is not a portrait, but an echo—of a person, a place, and a way of seeing the world.

Photos: #1 by Kenneth Jimenez, #2 unknown, #3-4 design by TJ Huff.

02/11/2025

Webber/Morris Big Band Wax Mage drop announcement! The Wax Mage Records crew crushed the design for Webber/Morris Big Band - Unseparate 2xLP (limited 25 but we keep one so 24 available). It’s really hard to see in the pictures, so I included a video to show the insane amount of gold dust in the A-side. We love these, and they’re a perfect compliment to this awesome music. The drop will be on Weds 11/5 at 12pm EST on Bandcamp, $100 for the double LP, link in the comments. Good luck to all hoping to grab this one! From the great recent review of Unseparate in PopMatters, thanks to Will Layman:

“Webber/Morris Big Band’s Unseparate puts its colors and rhythms up against each other to buzz, shimmer, and pulse in ways that no band can match.”

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