Sawyer Editions

10/07/2024

Great review of Ryan Seward’s “weathering” on Foxy!

https://foxydigitalis.zone/2024/07/10/the-capsule-garden-vol-3-15-july-10-2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3GYaUVPweYafi9ZDCnXeN7DTHVl3SaktzE4cnmQSrBuSgXgX57Vzzw2ms_aem_VPQrg2p-kWp_rmGgF6M2mQ

The Capsule Garden returns! Apologies for the extended absence, but life has just gone in all kinds of directions in the last month and, as ever, something had to give. I think it’s settling …

06/07/2024

“[H]ow do you choose just one to boost as Album of the Week?

In this instance, I’m boosting the one that stopped me dead in my tracks and made me forget what I was doing.” Great words from Steve Smith on Paolo Griffin’s “Supports and Surfaces” out on Sawyer Editions!

Stop what you're doing and pay attention to Canadian composer Paolo Griffin… plus two weeks' worth of new, recent, and upcoming releases.

05/07/2024

How's your Italian? Great words from Percorsi Musicali on the new batch! "The directionality is given by the great attention that Bob Gilmore manifested towards American experimental and/or avant-garde experiences and, how we were saying, Sawyer Editions is a natural development."

“When I think about our group now, and especially the large set of friends of this music, I wonder if some of the most fragile seeds planted in the mid-century, by Cage and the experimental tradition, by the certain subgroups within free jazz and improvised music communities, and by the quiet expe...

01/07/2024

Thanks so much everyone for a great release weekend! The response for these albums has been awesome and I'm really stoked to see how many new people have been listening and sharing the music. I'll be making a post about this later, but I'll be doing some travel in the UK and Germany and I'll be leaving next week, so if you want to get these CDs in a timely manner, make sure you get your order in soon!

28/06/2024

⏰OUT NOW⏰ Today is the day! I'm very excited to release 5 albums by the 5 amazing composers Sarah Hennies, Eden Shōgaku Lonsdale, Paolo Griffin, Georgia Denham, and Ryan Seward - as well as all their collaborators, audio engineers, and everyone else involved in each of these projects - especially everyone that has already reviewed or pre-ordered the new albums! THANK YOU!

26/06/2024

Thanks so much to our friends at Vital Weekly for writing about all five of the of the upcoming records for Number 1442! Give it a read!

CLUB OF ROME – GROSSE STATIK (CD by Klanggalerie) * PACIFIC 231 – DEEP JET (SOUNDSCAPES OF CONFLICT) (CD by Aussaat) * MASAYA OZAKI – MIZUKARA (CD by Laaps) * DALTON ALEXANDER – ALMOST HOME IF I’M…

26/06/2024

Stoked to have all 5 of the upcoming batch on Steve Smith's playlist: "A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…" Check em out, and see all the good music coming out here soon!

Conspicuous consumption of music, fresh and preserved, in New York City and points beyond.

24/06/2024

⏰THIS FRIDAY⏰ Batch #6 arrives! Amazing music coming from Sarah Hennies, Eden Lonsdale, Paolo Griffin, Georgia Denham, and Ryan Seward! Thank you everyone who has pre-ordered the music so far, and to everyone that has given this batch a listen - I've heard some really strong endorsements from some folks I really respect, so I think you're gonna love this group of albums. Check it out for yourself in the link below! 👇👇👇👇👇

22/06/2024

Coming FRIDAY. Ryan Seward "weathering" - three pieces of mesmerizing found-organ. From Ryan: "These pieces were written in the spring of 2024 in correspondence with the material
affordances of a decrepit reed organ found in a woodpile in Greeley, Colorado prior to me acquiring it. I performed basic maintenance on the reeds and bellows of the instrument in order for it to fully sound again, though the reeds remained tuned as they were."

21/06/2024

NEXT WEEK! Georgia Denham's "with love" From the composer: “This collection of chamber music from 2018–2022 wakes scores I thought were long since sleeping, where I first learned to write the delicate sounds I loved. With music written during my studies in Birmingham, The Hague and Cambridge, preparing this release has been testament to the beautiful generosity and talent of old friends. These recordings – some new, most revived – were made with musicians now dotted around the world, who have given their time, patience and permissions for this music to bloom again. I share it now with thanks and with love.”

20/06/2024

Coming June 28th!!! "Supports & Surfaces" is Canadian composer Paolo Griffin’s debut album and brings three pieces from 2019 and 2022. Each piece blends rich harmony and kaleidoscopic alterations to immersive sounds; immediate in their effect but engrossing in their experience, each piece draws in the listener and transforms gradually over looped and layered gestures transforming soloists into choirs and repeated gestures into landmarks across an expansive canvas.

19/06/2024

Coming June 28th!!! The three pieces from this album showcase Lonsdale as both composer and performer, highlighting the importance and the beauty possible when close friends share an artistic vocabulary. Performed with close friends in the German/UK-based ensemble red panel, Lonsdale’s second album after his release on Another Timbre, "ricercari for rainy days" is an intimate, richly textured, and evocative daydream.

18/06/2024

Coming June 28th!!!! "Bodies of Water" continues Hennies exploration of the beauty in subtlety and repetition. Both of the two works on this album are masterfully performed, rewarding ever deeper listening as the sounds unfold with clarity, simultaneously evocative and transformative, and at times fun, funny, and mysterious.

17/06/2024

Preorders of Batch #6 are now available on the Bandcamp! Stellar albums by Sarah Hennies; Eden Lonsdale / red panel; Paolo Griffin; Georgia Denham; Ryan Seward. This is an exceptional collection of music by some seriously talented folks! CHECK IT OUT!!!

11/06/2024

👀 did you know you can pick up Sawyer Editions releases on Sound Ohm? 👀

Soundohm is an international online mailorder that maintains a large inventory of several thousands of titles, specialized in Electronic/Avantgarde music and Sound Art.

10/06/2024

🎧 Announcing the 2024 Summer Batch from Sawyer Editions! Mark your calendars for June 28th: amazing music coming from Sarah Hennies, Eden Lonsdale, Paolo Griffin, Georgia Denham, and Ryan Seward! Pre-orders coming next week! Stay tuned for a great batch, and follow the Bandcamp to say up-to-date on the release! 👇👇👇👇👇

03/05/2024

It’s bandcamp Friday y’all! Support contemporary music!

Sawyer Editions is a small-batch label specializing in contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, especially of new and unreleased artists. Demos always welcome.

01/05/2024

Eva-Maria Houben - "finding some stuff" on The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp: April 2024 🩷 Check it out! It's real good! Thank you to Matthew Blackwell for including us on such a great list!

Captured sounds from stolen recorders, Swiss bells, a Dutch squatters’ commune, and more.

26/04/2024

About 409 million glasses of water

I’m trying to drink less water
Drink less water than I used to
A big jar filled to the top. Who needs that?
Four glasses of water just like that?
Who needs that?
Halfway up that’s nice
A glass filled halfway up—half of a glass of water
I like just a sip
I’m trying to drink just a sip of water
I like the little jars
Filled with water or not
Takes a second and just a sip

About 409 million glasses of water is a piece for field recordings, sine tones, and cornet. One recording was taken at Taconite Harbor in Cook County, Minnesota and the other in a parking lot outside of Duluth, Minnesota.

1 track album

23/04/2024

Happy birthday to Ben Zucker! 🎉Check out Ben’s ( )hole complex (per/formance/eration) on Sawyer Editions 🎧 Buy Ben a cup of coffee and pick up copy in the comments! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

19/04/2024

Out now! “Substantialis is part of a body of longform sound pieces composed by Nicholas Maloney and Tony Panella between January 2021 - January 2023. The other part of this collaboration became the 3xCDr album “Hypnon" which released on Asonu imprint in May 2023.

Substantialis, being the most wide-awake and sonically active of these surreal, longform compositions, was created by mixing layers of field recordings and acoustic object handling by Maloney in Cork (IE) with manipulations of electronics and acoustic objects made by Panella in his home studio in Mississippi (US). The result is a moving picture... a bustling, crackling, sloshing sound world that patiently progresses as it articulates it’s vivid reality in the imagination of the listener. The movement of people across a shakey suspension bridge, the gurgling of aquatic life, the crunching of dirt, leaves, and debris, the physicality of the city soundscape... sounds expressed by human/nature. The essence is here, as we find our way back to... listen”

16/04/2024

Check out Erin Demastes' "Keys & Bells"

From Erin: "Keys & Bells explores performing small instruments in unique spaces around the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Keys consists of melodica performed and recorded in both a resonant atrium and near a water fountain in an enclosed outdoor area. Bells is a duet between a variety of small bells and a bell tower. In between Keys and Bells is the interlude which is what fall sounds like in Louisiana. While we don’t get color-changing leaves, we do get a deluge of large acorns.

The idea behind this album was to interact with the natural soundscapes of these spaces by both performing with them and working with their idiosyncrasies. Some of the non-intentional sounds you may hear are gusts of wind, airplanes, construction, pickup trucks (a staple of Baton Rouge), crickets, and students chatting, playing music, and skateboarding. Louisiana is an interesting place to record outdoors due to its range of weather and variety of insects. In January it was hailing, and in February and March it was pouring rain. If this were recorded during the summer, there would be a deafening din of cicadas and running air conditioners. Regardless of the season, Louisiana is a unique place to listen to, and hopefully Keys & Bells portrays some of its uniqueness."

3 track album

09/04/2024

Getting low on copies of the new music by Eva-Maria Houben, Noah Ophoven-Baldwin, Erin Demastes, Polina Khatsenka (mʊdʌki), and Nicholas Maloney & Tony Panella 👉🏻 link in the comments 👇🏻

05/04/2024

🚨Out now! New Music from Sawyer Spaces! 5 wonderful albums of field recording, soundscape, and acoustic ecology from around the work. Music by Eva-Maria Houben, Noah Ophoven-Baldwin, Erin Demastes, Polina Khatsenka (mʊdʌki), and Nicholas Maloney & Tony Panella 👉🏻 link in the comments 👇🏻

01/04/2024

Friday! New releases from Sawyer Spaces! 5 wonderful albums of field recording, soundscape composition, and acoustic ecology from around the work. Music by Eva-Maria Houben, Noah Ophoven-Baldwin, Erin Demastes, Polina Khatsenka (mʊdʌki), and Nicholas Maloney. Really excited for Batch #3 from Sawyer Spaces - really wonderful stuff from Germany, the Netherlands, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ireland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Minnesota.

18/03/2024

Hands good chat with Patrick over at PRXLUDES about music and Sawyer Editions - check it out!

Contemporary music record label Sawyer Editions on creating an artistic ecosphere, DIY punk scenes, transparency, …

01/03/2024

Check out Noah Jenkins on Relevant Tones! Host Austin Williams speaks with composer Noah Jenkins about his most recent album release on Sawyer Editions, in collaboration with Riley Leitch Without Persistent Environments. Noah speaks about the importance of space and how it shaped his compositional process for the record. He also speaks deeply about the importance of collaboration and how giving music time to marinade with a performer is terribly important when trying to imagine what it is in its entirety. Listen below or whereever you listen to podcasts!

Join host Austin Williams as he speaks with composer Noah Jenkins about his most recent album release in collaboration with Riley Leitch Without Persistent Environments. Noah speaks about the impor…

14/02/2024

Happy Valentine's Day! Pick any 5 CDRs that are still in stock for a discounted price! Just write me which 5 you would like in the contact form on Bandcamp and get your 5 albums from 2022-2023 (includes download code for all albums). We're down to the less than ten copies for a bunch of the older Sawyer Editions releases and once they're gone, they're gone!

03/02/2024

“As a whole, this is a singular and evocative work of contemporary composition, and it will be exciting to hear what Jenkins has to offer in the future.” Read Dusted Magazine’s review of Noah Jenkins “Without Persistent Environments” out on Sawyer Editions

A few weeks ago, on January 5, Chicago-based composer Noah Jenkins released his first ever album, titled Without Persistent Environments, on Sawyer Editions. Just a few days later, on January 8,...

02/02/2024

It’s bandcamp Friday y’all! It’s a good day to support small labels and your independent artists!

Sawyer Editions is a small-batch label specializing in contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, especially of new and unreleased artists. Demos always welcome.