One Hand Clapping Records
HIRE ONE HAND CLAPPING

Commission a band
that never existed.

You can generate a song anywhere. What you cannot generate is a world. We make you the band, the record, the booklet, and the backstory — and, if you want it, a place on a real label's roster.

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The gift, or the legacy, that did not exist until you — an artifact you can hold, a myth with your fingerprints on it.

THE OFFERINGS

Ways to Get Signed

A Single
one perfect song
from $150
  • One bespoke, fully-produced track written around your story or occasion
  • Original lyrics and a title that belongs only to you
  • A custom cover and a printable lyric sheet
  • Delivered as audio + sleeve, yours to keep
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A Record
a body of work
from $600
  • A multi-track concept album built around one idea
  • Full lyrics and a Criterion-style liner booklet
  • Original cover art and per-track artwork direction
  • The whole thing sequenced, sleeved, and delivered as a set
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MOST POPULAR
A Signing
a band that never existed
from $1,800
  • A whole invented band — name, members, voice, a full band bible
  • Its own visual identity and a bespoke debut album
  • The Criterion-style booklet and the lore that connects it to the world
  • A page on this very label, alongside the rest of the roster
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The Producer's Chair
bring your own song
from $300
  • You bring a song you wrote, or one you love
  • We re-imagine, produce, or remix it the OHCR way
  • A finished record and a sleeve to match
  • Optional: a bunnyslippers-style transformation into something new
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In Memoriam & Tribute
for the ones who mattered
by inquiry
  • Bespoke commissions for weddings, memorials, milestones, and the people you love
  • Handled personally, start to finish, with total discretion
  • A song or a record built to hold a specific life or moment
  • The most meaningful thing on this menu, and priced as a conversation
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THE PROCESS

How a Commission Works

01

Tell us the story

A person, a place, an occasion, a feeling, a joke only you get. The stranger the better.

02

We map it

We come back with the concept — the band, the sound, the shape of it — and you approve before a note is made.

03

We make it

Written, produced, and sleeved in the OHCR house style, with the lore and the artifact to match.

04

You receive it

The music and the booklet are yours. If you like, we release it on the label — a real act, on a real roster.

Tell us the story.

The strangest, most specific, most personal idea you have is exactly the right one. We will make it real, and we will make it beautiful.

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