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http://www.inneroceanrecords.com We are a label for artists, by artists. Beauty with a little bit of chaos in the mix. We are a DIY label. Ambient, our first love.

Inner Ocean Records is a platform for artists to share music and visual art that evokes both calm and reverie. Founded in 2012 by Cory Giordano, in the land-locked city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the label embraces multiple genres, reasserting itself in an ebb and flow with the changing landscape of music. For artists and fans, Inner Ocean aims to be transparent and dedicated to positive change

in our shared communities. We’ve built the backbone of this label around a laid-back sound and feeling. That’s taken shape with a lot of different sounds; Ambient, Lo-fi Hip Hop, RnB, Modern Funk, Future Soul and even Indie Pop. Since our inception, we've prioritized the natural evolution and organic growth in our music. This is because we truly value the process and where it can all lead. Beautiful things often come from unexpected places. Inner Ocean is run by a close-knit team that handles nearly everything in-house. Being able to own multiple elements of the music and how it comes to life is exciting for us. It means we can create our own rules, experiment with new things, and work with artists more closely to put something out into the world we love. We duplicate, press, and share. One of the things we love most about music is being able to hold it in our hands and put it in the hands of others. So we release much of our music on physical formats like Tape Cassettes and Vinyl Records. These musical artifacts create a lasting legacy for the artist, marking a special moment in time with important cultural value. In the beginning, Inner Ocean was largely focused on ambient music. To honor that foundation, we created a side label called Drift. Since 2018, Drift has given us free-reign to fully embrace Ambient and Meditation projects without changing the direction of Inner Ocean. What’s with the name Inner Ocean? For those who don’t know, Calgary is a city surrounded by hundreds of kilometres of prairies, mountains, and forest. Our home base is perched amidst an ocean of land. We feel the vastness of the landscape can evoke a deeply personal experience, one that acts as an endless source of inspiration and creativity. Principles Upon Which We Are Founded

+ Build trust, honesty and integrity in everything we do
+ Give talented, hard-working artists the best platform we can
+ Adapt to the changing landscape in our own way
+ Know ourselves, surprise ourselves
+ Develop true connections through the music and art
+ Always create a chill space

08/11/2024

Out today, “Salt And Soil” a gorgeous new ambient EP by

It’s been a few years but this release is out on Drift, the ambient sub label of Inner Ocean. What better way to revive the series with beautiful new music from Peter Bark!

07/10/2024

Our friend is really cool and he makes great music. Here he is with his brand new album “Now Is Now” on special display at . Get your physical copy before the album drops this Friday!!!

Official full album release this Friday Oct 11 in North America (Oct 10 in Japan).

Major major thanks to all the super fans who preordered the LP and/or Cassette to be the first ones to listen to Yutaka’s latest masterpiece before everyone else. Y’all are champions and we are forever grateful for your support 😍

Also big shoutout to for her beautiful artwork that really makes this album shine ✨

27/09/2024

and “Teardown” is out in full today! You can stream the whole album to your hearts content, in all its jazzy goodness.

Major thanks to all the super fans that preordered a copy of the LP or Tape and were spinning the tunes early.

There are still some copies left if ya wanna get on it.
100 LPs and 150 Tapes were printed.
Very limited and would be a special addition to your collection 😎 link in bio to head to our online shop.

If you’re in Calgary you can head down to to pick up a copy in person at the cafe/record shop.

22/08/2024

and
“walk through the calm place”

Out now on all platforms 🌿

02/08/2024

Cute lofi beat from and
Like a walk through the forest with happy spirits 🍄 🌿

30/07/2024

Another hazed out jazz guitar joint from
“Vernal” out now on all streaming platforms.

📷 by

26/07/2024

New beat from .eevee
“summertime” out now on all platforms

23/07/2024

Excited to hang with some friends at this super cool market with the fine folks at

Come down this Sunday between 11-4 and we’ll swoon over cool records together 😎

16/07/2024

New heat from 🙌
Clean jazzy guitar vibes ✨

Stream it on your favourite listening platform.

Film photo by SoBe

27/06/2024

Our pop up vinyl store has landed at and the people are discovering all the great music lurking within the bins.

Never heard of I Love You Coffee??
Well! They’re a fantastic jazz kissa style cafe in Calgary’s Beltline neighborhood on 4th St. The coffee is solid and the music is even better, spinning only vinyl all day long (no aux cords allowed). If you’ve never been to I Love You y’all gotta visit this hidden gem.

We’re thrilled to have partnered with them to feature a selection of vinyl records, new stock updated weekly (ish).

Soon we’ll start a monthly vinyl music night!
Should we do evening events or would you prefer a chill Sunday afternoon?
What genre themes do you want to hear?
Comment below!

19/06/2024

Chill and dreamy lofi beat from and for a late night campfire under the starry sky.

11/06/2024

New bop from and
“opioid” now streaming everywhere.

07/06/2024

Out today, new full length album “Dawn” by

LPs are up for PREORDER
Cassettes ship immediately.
LINK IN BIO

Available to stream everywhere & in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music.

Shinji Wakasa’s “Dawn” is a conceptual ambient music album inspired by the ancient Chinese poem “The Fisherman” and the picture book “Dawn” by Uri Shulevitz, which uses this poem as its original title. In Shulevitz’s picture book, a beautifully evolving world at daybreak is depicted with very beautiful colour usage and minimal words. Wakasa undertook the creation of this album to express the world of this picture book and the original poem through sound.

In producing the music for this album, Wakasa set a very simple rule for himself: to create in the early morning using the clear awareness of the morning, to play what he felt at that moment without denying the first sound, and to build the music like flowing clouds, a concept expressed in Japanese Zen as “flowing clouds and water.”

This approach has successfully imbued the entire album with a sense of freedom and a gradation that transitions from the pitch-black sky gradually illuminated by the sun’s light, turning from blue to green to yellow.

About the cover art:
The artwork for this album was produced by Wakasa’s friend, graphic designer Shingo Kurono . The expression of light emerging like mist pushing up under an impressive ink-black sky is actually a photograph of the dawn ridge seen from his home, printed on Japanese washi paper and blurred with water. The artwork, matching the music, further liberates the world of DAWN.

Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Mastering

28/05/2024

Had the pleasure of chatting with Scott from . We talked about how the label started, our love for physical music, how we explore multiple avenues as a label and taking a sabbatical to keep things fresh.

If you don’t already follow Other Record Labels you definitely should! One of the best places on the internet for information and resources on being an independent artist and running an indie label. Scott does great interviews with music industry folk, I’ve personally learned a ton and gotten some good inspiration from listening to his podcast. It’s an honour to be featured alongside some super talented folk!

21/05/2024

“elvish” out today by and

Streaming everywhere ~ Link in bio to stream in our Spotify playlists.

03/05/2024

PREORDERS are live!sounds “Where You Thought You Wanted To Be” available on heavyweight translucent aqua green vinyl (shipping out end of May) and full colour print tape cassette (shipping out right away).

For the fans who grab a physical copy, y’all will get to listen to the full album months ahead of the full streaming release.

Head to our link in bio to pick up your copy!

Track playing on this post “Maybe We Should Call It” is a new single out today on the streaming platforms. Go get your groove on.

26/04/2024

“Shouyo-yu” by

The first single from the upcoming full length album “DAWN”.

23/04/2024

We are very proud to be working with on his new album “DAWN,” a conceptual ambient music album inspired by the ancient Chinese poem “The Fisherman” and the picture book “Dawn” by Uri Shulevitz, which uses this poem as its original title. In Shulevitz’s picture book, a beautifully evolving world at daybreak is depicted with very beautiful color usage and minimal words. Wakasa undertook the creation of this album to express the world of this picture book and the original poem through sound. In producing the music for this album, Wakasa set a very simple rule for himself: to create in the early morning using the clear awareness of the morning, to play what he felt at that
moment without denying the first sound, and to build the music like flowing clouds, a concept expressed in Japanese Zen as “flowing clouds and water.”

This approach has successfully imbued the entire album with a sense of freedom and a gradation that transitions from the pitch-black sky gradually illuminated by the sun’s light, turning from blue to green to yellow.

First single comes out this Friday.
Full album release in June, available on limited Vinyl Lp and Tape Cassette.

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@dot.multibeat and @noflikbeats jam a funky live version of their latest single “Float” Only good vibes 😎

Glide into the weekend with the soothing sounds of “Unfolding”, the latest project by @sixmissing and @zac.colwell LINK IN BIO for all your streaming options.

This Friday, @zac.colwell and @sixmissing present their latest creation “Unfolding”. Presave and preorder LINK IN BIO. Limited edition cassettes available.

Getting excited for the new album by @sixmissing and @zac.colwell this Friday! You can preorder “Unfolding” on Tape Cassette via the Inner Ocean website.

Honoured to be representing @yutaka_hirasaka on his next full length album “In The Moment” out next Friday Feb 4. Dropping on limited tape cassettes and streaming world wide.

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