One Hand Clapping Records

Ridiculus, Insolitus, Tristis, Pulcher

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.

Every record here is the sound of one hand clapping.

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The Roster

34 live · 37 acts

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

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On the Shelf

11 ACTS · RECORDS LIVE

The Terrycloth Robes

Yacht-rock and blue-eyed soul · the gentle morning-after

Latest — Check Out Is At Noon

The Paper Mothers

Uncanny lullaby-core trio · cradle songs for adults who remember

Latest — Insomnivore

The Cardboard Cosmonauts

Lo-fi bedroom-pop trio · the comics band, on the bedroom floor

Latest — Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

Italian crooner persona · the hunt, never the kill · samba at 4 a.m.

Latest — Luna di Limoncello

Les Petites Oreilles

Parisian quartet · 1960s yé-yé / chanson / retro-lounge

Latest — You Are in My Air

Solo EDM producer-performer · the happy android

Latest — Dopamine

The Velvet Jellyfish

Soul collective · six rooms of American soul, one velvet painting

Latest — Subtlety

The Spaceman Spiff Quartet

Vintage space-age pop · the box is the ship, belief the engine

Latest — The Interior Universe

Stoned Flamingo

All-instrumental world/lounge kitchen · faceless by design

Latest — Unnecessary

Solo instrumental guitar virtuoso · flamenco / gypsy-jazz fire

Latest — Dust Meridian

Solo singer-songwriter · confessional, close-miked, strong and bruised

Latest — Fuck Your Sorry

ARRIVING

Staged & Tuning

22 ACTS

COMING SOONMADS

Bubblegum Bullets

MADS · bubblegum × UK-drill trio · sweet that will hurt you

Canto Primaília

Brazilian trio · MPB / Tropicália · three voices leaning in, in the madrugada

California pop-punk / ska four-piece · 2001 snot, the Jerry-Finn pocket

COMING SOONMADS

MADS · angry-robot riot-grrrl · the photo-negative of Dr. Thrillho

Francis X. Neon

Orbital-casino AI crooner · cyberpunk lounge · the house always wins, then it learns to sing

K-pop girl group · dual GHOST / LEMON concept

Convalescent-home quintet · 'Body Tempo' · instrumental, elastic, felt

Bologna nerd-pop quintet · café-pop under a canary nightlight

La Banda de los Muertos

Nine-piece Día de los Muertos ensemble (+ Mole the xolo)

La Môme Spectrale

MADS · chanson hantée × Berlin techno · the dead do not leave the dance floor

COMING SOONMADS

MADS · Left-Bank cabaret-noir · the room the little ears were sent from

Phrog Marmalade

Jam band · one unfinished song since a 2014 campground

Mascot jingle-core · cheer performed as civic law

The Field Recorder Society

Chartered folk society · record the songs where the songs happened

Five witches · five schools · folk-rock / art-pop / Latin alt

Four-voice deep-sea house band · sung in VELUA

Supper-club jazz trio · the eternal 2 a.m.

COMING SOONMADS

The Xerox Underground

MADS · comic-shop band · genre is a variable, ink is forever

Classic-metal quartet · NWOBHM · the awe under the anger

Tin Pan Pegasus

Theatrical comedy songbook · songs built to order, the workhorse that flies

Xaló Seraphini

Solo exotica composer-bandleader · the trampoline engineer who composed the cosmos

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

PAGE COMING

Cynn

Solo · cellar drone-rock · two chords, an electric viola, and a fountain pen

THE ARCHIVE

Filed, Resting, or Working by Appointment

4 ACTS

In-house remix persona · a pair of slippers, not a person

TAKING COMMISSIONS

Solo film composer · cinematic scores, no fixed genre

The Treehouse Trio

1970s public-TV educational jazz · teaching as love

Solo persona · a ghostwriter who became a band