A Label unlike any other
In 2022, The Living Earth Show launched Earthy Records, a label designed to release innovative, ambitious, and uncompromising non-commercial music that reflects and responds to our world.
Development
The composer needs time to compose and revise the work, and musicians need time to learn and interpret the composer’s vision to the absolute best of their abilities. Further, the piece needs to be created as part of a deeply collaborative relationship with musicians who can work closely with the composer to truly realize the composer’s musical vocabulary.
Tools
The composer needs access to musicians capable of creating work in a variety of musical languages and producing any sound imaginable. Further, the composer needs access to the best possible engineering, mixing, and mastering to most accurately capture their vision in recorded form.
Distribution
The work must be able to be seen live, in a manner that allows the collaborating artists to be intentional about every aspect of how the work is presented on stage.
The work must also exist in recorded form that allows the composer’s musical ideas to be uncompromisingly presented, while being made widely accessible to the general public.
Creative Freedom
For the composers, no sound, style, perspective, subject matter should be off limits, and the work must be able to incorporate every facet of the composer’s artistic being.
Funds
Artists must be compensated for their time with a living wage.
For over a decade, The Living Earth Show has built the infrastructure to realize every step of its collaborators’ artistic visions. The launch of Earthy Records allowed TLES to exist as an infrastructure that can comprehensively steward every step of a composer’s artistic vision from the initial conception of an idea to the moment it enters a listener’s ears.
This gives composers unparalleled access to and control over the manners in which their work is created and consumed, giving them unprecedented control over their work and the ability to realize their most ambitious and uncompromising artistic visions.
Earthy Records releases innovative, beautiful, and vital experimental classical chamber music. The label has released two albums so far: Music for Hard Times, the experimental new age opus created over the past two years with composer Danny Clay and the young musicians of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and Lyra, the first album by composer Samuel Adams,
On December 10th, Earthy Records will release A Kind Of Ache, a monumental new work composed by and performed in collaboration with Sarah Hennies. The work features instruments built by Terry Berlier, and the piece is a haunting, vulnerable, emotional, and evocative meditation on queer sound and space.
We’re honored to build this label, and we’re so excited to share this work with you.