Formed by producer, engineer and songwriter Will Yip, Memory Musicis home to releases created in Studio 4, a recording studio in the Philadelphia area. Yip, who has produced and engineered albums for Lauryn Hill, Title Fight, Circa Survive, Balance +Composure, None More Black and The Wonder Years, launched the label in 2015 to highlight the community of artists he’s built around his studio and ove
rall vibe generated by the studio space. Each release reflects the uniqueness of Studio 4’s room and the way each artist uses it differently, creating varied albums that all carry a cohesive thread of their creative environment and Yip’s touch. The inspiration for the label came from a series of acoustic live shows Yip held inStudio4 in September of 2013and his desire to unveil those intimate recordings. MemoryMusic’s debut release is Tigers Jaw Studio 4Sessions, captured during one of the acoustic sessions, and the label will continue to release further sessions in the future. Memory Music follows in the vein of labels like Sun Records and Motown, which created a unique vibe, partially because they used the same studio for most of their classic recordings. Like with Studio 4, the energy and consistency of those rooms offered identifiable texture throughout the recordings while still allowing the artist shine individually.Yip, who released a compilation of his artists, Off The Board: A Studio 4 Compilation, in2013, aims to make the label a collective of artists he believes in and to release music in an organic way. The focus is putting the spotlight on independent, strong songwriting and revealing the aura created by Yip’s work in Studio 4.
