In the studio with The Album Leaf
“… it starts with sound… experimenting with sound… it truly gets me inspired… it’s what I react to…”
Searching for Leaf
Leaf
Location: Leeds, UK
Founded: 1995
A label founded by Tony Morley. Featuring artists such as Susumu Yokota, Matthew Bourne, Colleen, Caribou, Julia Kent, Murcof, Roll The Dice, and Vladislav Delay among many others.
Clark, Julia Kent, Aukai
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums that I covered 15, 10, and 5 years ago.
The Album Leaf
Prologue
“… the musical journey [which] weaves us through chaos culminating in some sort of peace…”
Purple Decades
Journey Test
“… a wordless dialectic between contentment and nostalgia…”
Franck Vigroux
Paris NYC
“… a kind of melodic euphoria is paired with machine-funk elements to create a kaleidoscope of sounds from the future of the past…”
Focus on Głós
“… I don’t distinguish so much between Techno and Ambient. For me, it’s the same: a soundtrack to special moments…”
Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids
In the first instalment of Headphone Commute’s Best of 2021, I gather my favourite selections of …
Murcof
The Alias Sessions
… music of exquisite tension and ecstatic release…
Aes Dana, Yagya, and Craven Faults
Three absolutely gorgeous albums that you can dive into instead of watching the news…