Since the late 1980s, LA-based jazz keyboardist Deron Johnson has worked with everyone from Stanley Clarke to David Sanborn and Seal, not to mention a memorable stint and close collaboration with Miles Davis. Those brushes with some of music’s greatest talents laid the groundwork for Johnson’s new album, Free to Dance.

Amy Aileen Wood’s The Heartening is out today on Colorfield Records. “[R]ecalls the scrapheap jazz of Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones mixed with early Aphex Twin” John Lewis, The Guardian

“Rolling Stops” is the first single off The Heartening, out May 3 2024 on Colorfield records. Featuring Fiona Apple, Sebastian Steinberg, Wayne Whittake and Nicole McCabe. Artwork made with millions of dots by Nicholas Nak.

Gregory Uhlmann’s Small Day is out today on Colorfield Records. With special guest Chris Speed. Album art by Christina Huang. “Small Day is a miraculous collection of miniatures, a jewelry box filled with pleasing little mechanismas of diversion.” -Kevin Hyde, Molars

Rich Hinman’s `Memorial is out today on Colorfield Records. WBUR’s Noah Schaffer describes the album as “pedal steel music without the twang”, “a gorgeous collection of nine pristine and often surprising original pieces.”

Collodion, the latest album of veteran guitarist and composer, Anthony Wilson, is 11 instrumental tracks brimming with sonic exploration and surprise, an electroacoustic experiment in which Wilson plays nearly all the instruments…

Distance of the Moon, saxophonist Nora Stanley and keyboardist Benny Bock’s first album together as a duo, is out today on Colorfield Records.

Daniel Rotem’s album Wave Nature is out on Colorfield Records. Featuring singles “The Inadequacy of Language” and “Wave Nature”

A retrofuturist dreamscape of percolating modular synthesizers, lush cinema strings and tortured guitars. Brad Allen Williams’ full-length, œconomy, is out today!

Now At Last, the first ep from The Randy Paserntes Trio Feat. Sam Gendel and Gabel Noel, is out today on Colorfield Records.

Go Bozo, Amir Yaghmai’s debut solo album, is out today. It’s a brilliant blend of club-ready dance grooves and ambient explorations – a bit like hearing a Floating Points remix of Brian Eno’s Apollo. “Go Bozo” was Yaghmai’s mantra during the recording process…

Between All Things is a world in which a sonic forest blooms simultaneously in all directions. OHMA's, Mia Garcia and Hailey Niswanger thoughtfully crafted the body of sound during 2021 to invoke a deep listening.

Anna Butterss’ Activities (out July 8th 2022 on Colorfield records) was born out of a chance studio invitation, a one day session that slowly evolved into the encompassing, electro-acoustic opus she eventually crafted.

Announcing Benny Bock’s debut full-length record, Vanishing Act, out June 10th on Colorfield Records. On his debut album, Vanishing Act, keyboardist and composer Benny Bock conjures the contrasts of living in big city and small town environments, infusing ambient jazz and folkloric arrangements with bristling electronic urgency.

Mark Guiliana’s Music For doing is OUT TODAY. “This album is the result of spending many fun days with Pete Min at @lucysmeatmarket while relentlessly experimenting with as many instruments as I could get my hands on — most of which appear in this clip — and pretending that I actually knew how to play them all…”

Mark Guiliana’s full-length record, Music For Doing, is out Jan 28th on Colorfield Records. Like all Colorfield releases, Music For Doing was recorded at Lucy’s Meat Market in Eagle Rock, CA, in sessions that emphasized improvisation and sonic exploration. Each song on the record started from a blank slate, only to find its full form by day's end.

On Earthshine, Goldings experiments with microtonality, mining the possibilities of converting audio to MIDI, and incorporating various found sounds, like icebergs, owls, and an old answering machine conversation. The record skirts repetition and was made without writing anything down; a test of spontaneity, where the lines between composition and improvisation blur.

With a goal to find unselfconscious freedom, Abe Round’s first solo LP “The Confidence to Make Mistakes” represents a moment of unapologetic self-expression through percussion, drums and vocals.