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Out Of Your Head Records An artist-run label dedicated to releasing creative music and original visual art in limited runs.

ANNOUNCING the sophomore album from the Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (OOYH 037), led by Anna Webber and Angela Mor...
17/07/2025

ANNOUNCING the sophomore album from the Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (OOYH 037), led by Anna Webber and Angela Morris and due out on 2xLP, CD, and digital on September 26! You can pre-save it everywhere you stream (except Spotify) and the only place to hear the preview track is on Bandcamp, link in the comments. The preview is the first movement (and album opening track) of Anna’s Just Intonation Etudes For Big Band - Unseparate 1.

Album art and photography is by TJ Huff, and we’ll have a lot more coming soon about this release. CDs are done and will begin shipping mid-August (a month ahead of release date) and we expect to have vinyl around the same time. Very excited to share a preview today! The Webber/Morris Big Band is:

Anna Webber & Angela Morris - tenor saxophone, flute, conductor
Jay Rattman - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
Charlotte Greve - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
Adam Schneit - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Lisa Parrott - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet

Nolan Tsang, Ryan Easter, Jake Henry, Kenny Warren - trumpets

Tim Vaughn, Zekkereya El-magharbel, Jen Baker, Reginald Chapman - trombones

Yuhan Su - vibraphone
Dustin Carlson - guitar
Marta Sánchez - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Jeff Davis - drums

The first single from the Shelter Collective, an improvised meeting in London, featuring Peni Candrarini with Leo Abraha...
15/07/2025

The first single from the Shelter Collective, an improvised meeting in London, featuring Peni Candrarini with Leo Abrahams, Anna Daly Edgington, Shahzad Ismaily, Stevie J Jones, Kaneng Lolang, Andy McGraw, Jonathan Meiburg, and Seb Rochford is OUT NOW!! Improvisations 1 is the second release in the new OOYH Records Beacons series, and the full album will be out Friday July 25. Single and all Beacons album art by TJ Huff. Enjoy, much more soon! Link in the comments to stream, and you can purchase the album at Bandcamp.

08/07/2025

We're very excited to announce the first of our Fall releases, the debut album by Tomas Fujiwara's Percussion Quartet, Dream Up (OOYH 036), featuring Tomas with Tim Keiper, Kaoru Watanabe, and Patricia Brennan. This will be out September 12, 2025 and you can check out a preview track, Blue Pickup, only on Bandcamp for now (link in the comments).

We'll have two singles coming soon, and we can very honestly say this release is unlike any of ours before it. Influences range from Max Roach's ensemble M'Boom, Bobby Hutcherson's contributions to albums like Out To Lunch, all the way to Tomas' run in the Broadway production Stomp early in his NYC years. This is a CD + digital release (sorry vinyl fans, it is slightly too long to fit on a record). Pre-order up now for CDs, and we should have these slightly before release date...we'll be shipping them as soon as we have them in hand.

Super A+ album art and design by TJ Huff. More soon on this, and we'll be rolling out the rest of our Fall pre-orders in the coming weeks as well as some very exciting albums in the new Beacons series. Thanks so much for the support, we hope you enjoy this!

ANNOUNCING launch day for our brand new digital-only all improvised series OOYH Beacons! And we are thrilled that OOYH B...
27/06/2025

ANNOUNCING launch day for our brand new digital-only all improvised series OOYH Beacons! And we are thrilled that OOYH B001 is the debut from the elecro-acoustic trio of Mabel Kwan, Mauricio Pauly, and Carrie Shaw called Lunches for the Week. It is now streaming everywhere and available for purchase only on Bandcamp, link in the comments. All of the art + design for Beacons is by TJ Huff, and we can’t wait to share them with you...they look amazing! Enjoy, here’s a bit more info on Lunches for the Week:

Have you ever seen a 1950s jello salad? Have you ever said something in the past that you replay in your mind again and again, a memory which has over time become a lime-green, jiggly, bizarrely charming monstrosity? Like Betty Crocker’s most diabolical product developers, electroacoustic trio Mabel Kwan (Chris Dammann Sextet, Honestly Same, Dal Niente), Mauricio Pauly (Distractfold Ensemble, Eve Egoyan, No Hay Discos), and Carrie Shaw (Dal Niente, Quince Ensemble) got together in a dusty, warm garage to cook up Lunches for the Week, long-form improvisations featuring savory layers of synths, pedal steel, garden-tool percussion, and vocals processed through guitar pedals. Their debut as a trio, this album broods, squirms, and crackles, building and rebuilding memories that cause us to question the nature of retelling and replication. Lunches for the Week, the first album from the new digital-only all improvised series Out Of Your Head Records Beacons, releases everywhere on June 27, 2025.

We just put up a preview track from Christopher Hoffman’s forthcoming solo cello album, REX, due out January 17, 2026. T...
26/06/2025

We just put up a preview track from Christopher Hoffman’s forthcoming solo cello album, REX, due out January 17, 2026. That’s a long ways away! Chris has a performance this weekend at the New Directions Cello Festival, so this seemed like a good time to give a little preview. The single edit of REX is a short one, but gives you an idea as to how great this is going to be. REX was recorded in the same house in upstate NY where Rex Brasher lived, and where he made most of his paintings. The LP features Brasher’s art with layout/design by TJ Huff in a pretty awesome gatefold (the cover is TJ’s design and Brasher’s handwriting). We put those up for pre-order because at 500 copies they are likely to sell out. We are hoping to have LPs in hand sometime in October and we’ll be shipping them early before release date. Enjoy this beautiful music (link in comments), and we’ll have way more about this one over the coming months!

The new single from Kwan / Pauly / Shaw Trio ‘Shorter, sturdier boys’ is OUT NOW everywhere you like to listen to music ...
24/06/2025

The new single from Kwan / Pauly / Shaw Trio ‘Shorter, sturdier boys’ is OUT NOW everywhere you like to listen to music (link in comments)! The track is from their debut Lunches for the Week, which is the album that kicks off our brand new all-improvised digital music series, Beacons. Kwan / Pauly / Shaw Trio is Mabel Kwan: accordion + synth, Mauricio Pauly: lap steel + synth, Carrie Shaw: voice + synth, and all of the original art and design for Beacons is by (huffart.com). Much more about this album on Friday! For now we hope you enjoy this track.

ANNOUNCING! Out Of Your Head Beacons is a new series from OOYH Records, launching June 2025. It is similar to the Untame...
18/06/2025

ANNOUNCING! Out Of Your Head Beacons is a new series from OOYH Records, launching June 2025. It is similar to the Untamed series in that it is digital-only, but Beacons focuses on entirely improvised performances. It will cover a wide range of genres and will feature music from artists from across the world. While the majority of our catalog is Brooklyn, Richmond, Baltimore, or Chicago based, a main goal of the Beacons series is to highlight music from a much wider geographic area. Here are the first three albums with release dates, and a fourth slated for September featuring a trio of Dave Ballou, Anthony Pirog, and Devin Gray. The awesome original series art + design is by TJ Huff (huffart.com) and each features a city or place central to that recording. We’re so excited to share this music with you! Here’s what we have for the Summer, with one preview track for each available only on Bandcamp, links in comments (singles and more info on each coming soon!):

6/27: Kwan / Pauly / Shaw Trio - Lunches for the Week (OOYH B001)

Mabel Kwan: accordion + synth
Mauricio Pauly: lap steel + synth
Carrie Shaw: voice + synth

7/25: Shelter Collective (feat. Peni Candra Rini) - Improvisations 1 (OOYH B002)

Leo Abrahams, Anna Daly Edgington, Shahzad Ismaily, Stevie J Jones, Kaneng Lolang, Andy McGraw, Jonathan Meiburg, Peni Candra Rini, Seb Rochford

8/29: Caroline Davis and Dustin Carlson - Sprites (OOYH B003)

Caroline Davis - alto saxophone, electronics, voice
Dustin Carlson - guitar, electronics

02/06/2025

Read the review of The Hemphill Stringtet - Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out Of Your Head Records, 2025) on The Free Jazz Collective

CLEARANCE SALE: Christopher Hoffman - Vision Is The Identity pocketless Reaper Hoodies are on sale for $20 + $5 shipping...
02/06/2025

CLEARANCE SALE: Christopher Hoffman - Vision Is The Identity pocketless Reaper Hoodies are on sale for $20 + $5 shipping (US). Screen print of the cover image by TJ Huff, and these were printed at Triple Stamp Press in Richmond VA. Who needs a pocket on a hoodie!? We’re sending these to Chris to sell at shows later this week, so this is the last chance to grab one through us. They’ll only be available at live concerts by Chris moving forward. Also Chris’s first album with us, Asp Nimbus, is almost sold out on vinyl as well. There are maybe 15 left in the warehouse, and once they are gone they are gone. Hoodie link in bio! brains: , model: design:

Wax Mage drop! Next up from our friends is for The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (OOYH 035) and...
28/04/2025

Wax Mage drop! Next up from our friends is for The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (OOYH 035) and it is pretty pretty awesome. This handmade custom label burst features pieces of Julius Hemphill’s NY Times obituary hidden inside the record. You can read excerpts if you shine light through the A side to the B side. It’s pretty wild! And the Wax Mage team perfectly matched the colors to the album art by . The drop is this Friday May 2 at 12pm EST, just in time for Bandcamp Friday, $75 + shipping. It’ll go live on the Hemphill Stringtet Bandcamp page in our bio. As always these are limited to 25 and we keep one, so 24 will go up on Friday. Good luck to all hoping to grab one!

The Hemphill Stringtet is Curtis Stewart + Sam Bardfeld - violins, Stephanie Griffin - viola, and Tomeka Reid- cello.

The Hemphill Stringtet LP/CD release is TONIGHT in NYC at !! 7:30pm show, one set, and the only chance to see this band ...
16/04/2025

The Hemphill Stringtet LP/CD release is TONIGHT in NYC at !! 7:30pm show, one set, and the only chance to see this band for a while. Don’t miss! And a big thanks to everyone who has been listening and grabbing LPs and CDs. Some nice recent words about the album:

“the Stringtet strikes a gorgeous balance between order and disorder, moving as one while soloing independently.” —Larry Blumenfeld , Wall St. Journal)

“The Hemphill Stringtet gives the chamber music treatment to Hemphill’s blues-leaning music with such expressive depth, lyrical beauty and adventurous fervor that it will surely stop you in your tracks in amazement.” —Brad Cohan, TrebleZine

“Exquisite” —Jim Macnie, Lament for a Straight Line

“A vital document of a canon that demands closer inspection. —Steve Smith, NightAfterNight

“The ensemble here play brilliantly together, the lines between the written and the improvised keeping everything mobile.” —Liam Noble, UK Jazz Review

OUT TODAY! The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (OOYH 035), featuring Curtis Stewart and Sam Bardfe...
04/04/2025

OUT TODAY! The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (OOYH 035), featuring Curtis Stewart and Sam Bardfeld on violin, Stephanie Griffin on viola, and Tomeka Reid on cello, releases today April 4, 2025 on Out Of Your Head Records in LP + CD + digital formats. The recording features Mingus Gold, Hemphill’s deeply original take on three Mingus compositions originally commissioned by the Kronos String Quartet, and four World Saxophone Quartet pieces penned by Hemphill. Notably, this is the first studio recording ever made of Mingus Gold (the only extant version being a live recording by the Daedalus Quartet) and the first string quartet recordings of any of the great WSQ original repertoire.

There is an album release concert on April 16 at the Greenwich House in NYC, and both CDs and LPs are in stock and shipping now! The album art + design is by TJ Huff, featuring a photo of Julius Hemphill by Nina Contini Melis. Stay tuned for a Wax Mage announcement coming soon...we haven’t seen them yet, but we have reason to believe it’ll be a doozy. Liner notes in both the LP and CD are by Kevin Whitehead. Link to buy CD/LP/digital as well as stream anywhere you stream in the comments. Go listen, we think you will love this music (we do)!!

“The Hemphill Stringtet gives the chamber music treatment to Hemphill’s blues-leaning music with such expressive depth, lyrical beauty and adventurous fervor that it will surely stop you in your tracks in amazement.” —Brad Cohan, Treble Zine

“The ensemble here plays brilliantly together, the lines between the written and the improvised keeping everything mobile.” —Liam Noble, London Jazz News

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