One Hand Clapping Records

One Hand Clapping Records

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An invented record label and the deep, interconnected universe it keeps — thirty bands across folk, soul, EDM, chanson, K-pop, exotica, metal and stranger weather. Every one of them is real in here. Pull a thread.

Cara mia, ma chère.

The Roster

31 live · 34 acts

Each act plays a different corner of the house. The lit ones have rooms you can walk into now; the rest are arriving. Three carry the MADS mark — the Moonrise Alternate Dimension Studio, where bands meet their photo-negatives.

OUT NOW
Dr. Thrillho
Solo EDM producer-performer · the happy android
COMING SOON
Ghost Lemonade
K-pop girl group · dual GHOST / LEMON concept
OUT NOW
Les Petites Oreilles
Parisian quartet · 1960s yé-yé / chanson / retro-lounge
OUT NOW
The Velvet Jellyfish
Soul collective · six rooms of American soul, one velvet painting
COMING SOON
The Heriot
Five witches · five schools · folk-rock / art-pop / Latin alt
COMING SOON
The Cardboard Cosmonauts
Lo-fi bedroom-pop trio · the comics band, on the bedroom floor
OUT NOW
The Spaceman Spiff Quartet
Vintage space-age pop · the box is the ship, belief the engine
OUT JULY
The Paper Mothers
Uncanny lullaby-core trio · cradle songs for adults who remember
COMING SOON
i Canari Blu
Bologna nerd-pop quintet · café-pop under a canary nightlight
OUT JULY
Thünderpänts
Classic-metal quartet · NWOBHM · the awe under the anger
COMING SOON
Chad Fontleroy
California pop-punk / ska four-piece · 2001 snot, the Jerry-Finn pocket
COMING SOONMADS
Bubblegum Bullets
MADS · bubblegum × UK-drill trio · sweet that will hurt you
COMING SOONMADS
CL3O
MADS · angry-robot riot-grrrl · the photo-negative of Dr. Thrillho
COMING SOON
Phrog Marmalade
Jam band · one unfinished song since a 2014 campground
COMING SOONMADS
The Xerox Underground
MADS · comic-shop band · genre is a variable, ink is forever
COMING SOON
Xaló Seraphini
Solo exotica composer-bandleader · the trampoline engineer who composed the cosmos
OUT NOW
Stoned Flamingo
All-instrumental world/lounge kitchen · faceless by design
COMING SOON
La Banda de los Muertos
Nine-piece Día de los Muertos ensemble (+ Mole the xolo)
COMING SOON
The Night Owls
Supper-club jazz trio · the eternal 2 a.m.
COMING SOON
SAJA
Solo instrumental guitar virtuoso · flamenco / gypsy-jazz fire
COMING SOON
The Terrycloth Robes
Yacht-rock and blue-eyed soul · the gentle morning-after
COMING SOON
Smile Brigade
Mascot jingle-core · cheer performed as civic law
COMING SOON
Tin Pan Pegasus
Theatrical comedy songbook · songs built to order, the workhorse that flies
COMING SOONMADS
Pas Devant
MADS · Left-Bank cabaret-noir · the room the little ears were sent from
COMING SOON
Becca Bae
Solo singer-songwriter · the only real voice on the label
IN THE ARCHIVE
The Field Recorder Society
Chartered folk society · record the songs where the songs happened
IN THE ARCHIVE
The Treehouse Trio
1970s public-TV educational jazz · teaching as love
IN THE ARCHIVE
Vesper Stilton
Solo persona · a ghostwriter who became a band
IN THE ARCHIVE
bunnyslippers
In-house remix persona · a pair of slippers, not a person
COMING SOON
The Lorelei
Four-voice deep-sea house band · sung in VELUA
OUT NOW
Ezra Santiago
Solo film composer · cinematic scores, no fixed genre
PAGE COMING
Canto Primaília
Brazilian trio (provisional) · Tribalistas-coded · for Simon’s mother
PAGE COMING
Romy
Solo · glam trip-hop noir · secretly four years old
PAGE COMING
The Vaudeville Cabaret
Yiddish-theater klezmer cabaret · the show goes on, for the dead