Gearbox Records

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Liza Lo, Familiar (out 1.31.25)

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Elliot Galvin, The Ruin (out 2.8.25)

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Cahill/Costello, out 11.8.24
Credit: Photo credit is Harrison Reid. Visuals Direction Niki Zaupa

Liza Lo, “Anything Like Love” (Audio Video)

Liza Lo, “Gipsy Hill”

Elliot Galvin, “Gold Bright” (Feat. Shabaka Hutchings)

Cahill Costello, “Ae//FX”

Videos

Liza Lo, “Confiarme,” Live in the Harbour

Press

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The Wild Is Calling Us Highlights Liza Lo

Emerging Folk: Liza Lo, adios Bangladesh, Erik Kase Romero, Short Art Fair Enough"Liza Lo is a well travelled songwriter."  |  Read More at The Wild...

Downbeat Highlights Elliot Galvin

Editor's Picks: Elliot Galvin"Sometimes you just need some trippy music from an artist who’s painting well outside the lines in bright, bold...

Magnet Premieres Liza Lo’s “Catch the Door”

Magnet Exclusive Premiere: "Catch the Door""Throughout the album, Lo assumes the role of the weary traveler, fending off tragedy and finding...

Podcart Highlights Cahill Costello, “Ae//FX”

Cahill Costello: "Ae//FX""The duo crafts tension between ethereal synth textures and aggressive breakbeat rhythms, each element locked in perfect...

Podcart Highights Cahill Costello

Cahill Costello: "Sunbeat""Cahill Costello‘s latest offering unfolds with the kind of patience usually reserved for time-lapse photography, where...

Twisted Soul Music Highlights Elliot Galvin and Knats

The Leftovers"Consider yourself introduced to Knats."  |  Read More at Twisted Soul Music

The Quietus Reviews Cahill/Costello II

Glaswegian drum / guitar duo record that always keeps the listener on their toes"Their new album was created by writing and improvising together,...

We All Want Someone To Shout For Shares “Ae//FX”

Cahill//Costello – “Ae//FX”"It’s a track full of life, but also piercing with a sense of melancholy throughout it’s impressive 15-minute runtime." ...

Visual Atelier 8 Shares Eliot Galvin’s From Beneath

Eliot Galvin, From Beneath"The composition brings elements of jazz fusion with modern classical and textured electronic layers to craft a haunting...

Last Day Deaf Highlights Cahill//Costello

Cahill//Costello's Ae//FX (Single Edit)Read More at Last Day Deaf

The Fader Spotlights Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka

Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka: Magnificent Little Dudes, Volume 02"Nothing hits quite like gorgeous ambient production paired with pristine...

Last Day Deaf Highlights Cahill/Costello Single

Listening Now: "Sunbeat"Read More at Last Day Deaf

Press Releases  |  See All

Elliot Galvin Releases First New Studio Album in Six Years The Ruin – Digital Out Now & Physical on Feb. 28

LP Features "Voyager" (Pitchfork) Shabaka Hutchings As Well As Ruth Goller, Sebastian Rochford & Ligeti String Quartet**** "Keyboardist adopts a...

Liza Lo Releases Debut Album Familiar on Gearbox Records

UK/EU Live Dates Start Today"A wistful blend of indie-folk and pop that's reminiscent of the likes of Alice Phoebe Lou and Julia Jacklin."--DIY

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Liza Lo Announces Highly Anticipated Debut Album Familiar, Out 31st January Via Gearbox Records

Hear/Share the New Single "Catch the Door" "a wistful blend of indie-folk and pop that's reminiscent of the likes of Alice Phoebe Lou and Julia...

Nick Loss-Eaton Media 2025 Jazz Releases

Darren Barrett - dB-ish: Straight Vibesss (Feb. 7, 2025 / dB Studios)After releasing two acclaimed albums this year,...

Ai Kakihira Releases New Makunouchi EP + Shares “♡”

Out Now Via Gearbox RecordsToday, Tokyo-based multi-instrumentalist Ai Kakihira has released her highly anticipated new EP MAKUNOUCHI via...

Elliot Galvin Announces New Album The Ruin Out Digitally Feb 7 / Physically Feb 28 Via Gearbox Records

Today, award-winning composer, pianist, and improvisor Elliot Galvin returns with details of his new album The Ruin, which will be released...

Liza Lo Shares New Single “Morning Call” Via Gearbox Records

Support Dates with Vraell in November"A wistful blend of indie-folk and pop that's reminiscent of the likes of Alice Phoebe Lou and Julia Jacklin."...

Knats Share New Single “Tortuga (For Me Mam)”

Currently On Tour As Eddie Chacon's Band“They gleefully rewire jazz with a hard-as-nails rhythm section, drum’n’bass energy and punk...

Elliot Galvin Signs to Gearbox Records, Shares Single “From Beneath,” Featuring Ruth Goller & Sebastian Rochford

Today, award-winning composer, pianist, and improvisor Elliot Galvin returns with a new single titled “From Beneath,” his first release on...

Liza Lo Shares New Single “Gipsy Hill” + Announces November Tour Dates with Steph Strings

To Play UK Record Store Tour in OctoberToday, London-based producer and singer-songwriter Liza Lo has shared a new single titled "Gipsy Hill". The...

Glasgow Experimental/Ambient Duo Announce New Collaborative Album Cahill/Costello II (Nov. 8 / Gearbox Records), Share Single “Sunbeat”

Today, Glaswegian ambient duo Cahill//Costello return with news of their second collaborative album Cahill//Costello II. Made up of classically...

Liza Lo Shares New Single “What I Used To Do” + Live Performance Video of “Confiarme”

To Play UK Record Store Tour in October 2024Today, London-based producer and singer-songwriter Liza Lo has shared a new single titled "What I Used...

About

Liza Lo Artist Bio

Liza Lo is an indie-folk artist whose gentle yet powerful voice weaves tales of love, loss, and growth. Her latest music has been recorded with producer Jon Kelly (Paul McCartney, Kate Bush) at Damon Albarn’s Studio 13. These new recordings feature her full live band, adding a new depth to her introspective lyrics. Liza recently signed to London/Tokyo analog specialist label Gearbox Records. Her songs have caught the attention of BBC Introducing London and landed on popular Spotify playlists like New Music Friday and The Most Beautiful Songs in the World, as well as being featured on Notion’s Undiscovered and DIY Neu playlist. Having recently completed her own UK headline tour and opened for Steph Strings and Vraell around the UK as well as a sold-out EU/UK tour with Harrison Storm in Liza Lo’s star is rising fast.

Brought up between the Netherlands, England and Spain, Liza is influenced by a wide variety of music. Inspiration for Liza ranges from Laura Marling, Big Thief and Carole King to Billie Marten, Maro and Flyte. Growing up, Liza was surrounded by flamenco music, played live by family and friends at home. This love for playing and sharing music in a community sparked a love for guitar playing and intimate story telling. A few years later, being mentored by Jon Kelly, who worked with incredible artists like Kate Bush and Paul McCartney, has pushed Liza to record her songs with her entire live band. The band, Liza and Jon set off to Studio 13 in West London and recorded ‘Familiar’ direct to tape. A lesson in learning to accept impurities in a recording and choosing the song for the feeling of the take, rather than the perfection of the recording. Jon and Liza sat down weekly, going through Liza’s newly written songs and were together collecting the right ones for the album over the course of 10 months. The band came together and jammed the songs in the studio for the first time, just before recording them, trusting everyone’s initial instinct with the songs and allowing an element of surprise whilst recording.

More stripped back songs like A Messenger and Darling carry the core of Lo’s inspiration, keeping the songs as simple as possible, to just convey the message of the song was the goal here. Whereas bigger songs like Morning Call, Catch The Door and Gipsy Hill were developed thoroughly with the whole band and more inspired by bands like Big Thief or Flyte, to bring together a sonic field that supported the song but also where the instrumentation led the writing.

Liza Lo Artist Statement

The name ‘Familiar’ reflects this element of going back to records I grew up listening to, this way of recording that makes music feel familiar and a way that brought my creative process close to what Jon, my mentor and co-producer on this record, is a master in too. I also wanted the word to tie in with the stories I was telling, the intimacy of family, the tales of romantic love in my life, but also the inevitable loss that comes with living and how to manage that. All these feelings we come across recurringly in life, from losing a friend, to falling out of touch with yourself and others, to the beauty of falling in love. I count myself incredibly lucky to work with Jon Kelly on this record, it allowed me to fully trust in this for me, new way of recording. The decision to bring the band into the studio and have that be the core of the album has made an incredible impact on how my music sounds now and will sound in the future. It has shifted the way I look at recording music forever. This is ‘Familiar’, something to listen to when you’re looking to ground, settle, or relate.

Jon became my mentor at the start of 2023, he told me lots of stories about his time recording Paul McCartney and Kate Bush, Jon being an obvious, incredible inspiration to me. I was studying music production at the time and was lucky enough to have met Jon in a masterclass about mixing. I played him multiple demo’s and we spoke a lot about my live band and Jon and I started speaking about what it’d look like to record with all of them in the studio I had access to during my studies, and so we did. Meeting the team at Gearbox and having Jon as my mentor allowed me to trust in this new way of recording my songs. We brought the music to life by focusing on one main element: to keep it live, so we brought the whole band together in the studio. We recorded the songs direct to tape at Damon Albarn’s Studio 13 in West-London and Sean Hargreaves’ studio in Camden. I’d written all the songs and brought them to Jon and we’d together decide which ones were worth trialling with the band and which ones I needed to finish writing. It was honestly the most fruitful of times.

Chihei Hatakeyama Bio

In 2006, Chihei released his first album on Kranky, an acclaimed American label specialising in avant-garde music. Since then, he has released numerous works on labels in Japan and abroad, including Room40 in Australia, Own Records in Luxembourg, Under The Spire and Hibernate in England, and Home Normal in Japan. His works feature beautiful ambient drone pieces constructed by sounds using digital and analog equipment, and are mainly popular overseas, ranking in the top 10 of Spotify’s 2017 “Most Played Domestic Artists Abroad”. In April 2021 he released the album “Late Spring” – his first release on Gearbox Records. In May 2023 he also released a collection of music for the documentary film “Life is Climbing”. Since 2010, he has been actively touring around the world, including a 15-stop US tour in 2022 and two European tours in 2023.

Shun Ishiwaka Bio

Percussionist, born 1992 in Hokkaido. Shun studied percussion at the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He graduated from the same university and won an Acanthus Music Award and a Douseikai Award at the time. Next to leading his own projects, including Answer to Remember, SMTK and Songbook Trio, he also appears at live performances and recordings by such artists as Quruli, CRCK/LCKS, Kid Fresino, Ohzora Kimishima and Millennium Parade. His most recent activities include the ‘excursion’ type performance “Shun Ishiwaka + Nobuyoshi Asai” live session. In addition to soundtracks for the movies “Architecture”, “Time” and “Kazuyo Sejima” and the NHK audio drama “Okujo No Shinyusha”, he also contributed music for promotional movies for products and series such as “OU” (Yamamoto Co., Ltd.), “Niji No Koku Chapter 15” (Madame Figaro), “FW21: Exploring Happiness” (Loewe), and “Jordan: Tokyo Fearless Ones” (Nike). In 2022 he wrote music for the NHK program “Ending Cut” together with Tomomi Oda. Co-performances with overseas artists include appearances at concerts in Japan by Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jason Moran among others. At YCAM, the new concert piece “Sound Mine” by Miyu Hosoi + Shun Ishiwaka + YCAM was unveiled in 2019. In the theatrical anime “BLUE GIANT,” released in 2023, he played the actual drum part played by the character Shunji Tamada in the film.

Bio – Darrel Sheinman, Gearbox Records

Darrel Sheinman is the founder and head producer at Gearbox Records, a vinyl-led label combined with in-house mastering and cutting studio based in King’s Cross, London.

A drummer from the age of 13, Darrel played in various punk bands before moving to jazz, groove, and funk. Whilst pursuing successful careers as a commodities trader and maritime security professional, Darrel continued to nurture his passion for music via his habitual crate-digging for rare, original Blue Note pressings and a strong addiction to high fidelity audio. In 2009, this led to a change in career path and the beginnings of Gearbox Records.

Initial Gearbox output stemmed from Darrel’s explorations of the British Library archives, which led to a slew of first-time commercial releases from cult British jazz icons that included saxophonist legend Tubby Hayes and pianist Michael Garrick. Under the mentorship of famed engineers Sean Davies, Darrel was inspired to build an all-analogue cutting and mastering studio based around vintage vacuum tube tape machines and a 1967 Haeco Scully lathe, to which one can attribute the signature “Gearbox sound.” More recently and under Darrel’s A&R leadership, Gearbox has been at the forefront of the UK contemporary jazz revival, having released music with acts such as Binker & Moses, Theon Cross, and Sarathy Korwar. As well as jazz, Gearbox has evolved organically into other genres and styles of music, from Brazilian no wave to ambient electronic to lo-fi soul, with a focus on quality being the deciding factor.

A frequent visitor to Japan, Darrel holds a black belt in kobudo martial art practices, something that he shares with legendary pianist and Gearbox signing Abdullah Ibrahim. His admiration and appreciation of Japanese culture led him to introduce monthly “kissaten”-styled listening sessions to the Gearbox studio, open to the public, which proved popular and have resulted in a monthly residency on London’s Soho Radio show.

Ever the entrepreneur, Darrel opened a Gearbox Japan office in Spring 2020, making Gearbox one of the first ever independent labels to do so.

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