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Perhaps Transparent is a Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the seat of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.Part of the New York metropolitan area, Jersey City lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay across from Lower Manhattan and the Hackensack River and Newark Bay...

 based independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 founded by Gabriel Walsh
Gabriel Walsh
Gabriel Walsh was born in Dublin. At the age of 15, while working as the waiter in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin he met Irish Opera singer Margaret Burke-Sheridan . This encounter would change his life.-Early years:...

 and Stephen Connolly
Stephen Connolly
Stephen Patrick Connolly is a Scottish football midfielder currently on trial with Albion Rovers. He is a product of Clyde's youth system.-Career:...

. The label releases psychedelic
Psychedelic
The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

 and psych folk
Psych folk
Psychedelic folk or psych folk is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music that originated in the 1960s through the fusion of folk music and psychedelic rock...

 music. Artists on this label tend to include song, narrative or conceptual structures that are deliberately complicated and/or obscure – Your Team Ring buries puzzles in its albums, Flaming Fire
Flaming Fire
Flaming Fire is an American arts collective and experimental rock band from Brooklyn, New York, USA, which formed in 2000.Other projects include live performance, film, comics and the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible .The band is on avant rock label Silly Bird Records, home to bands like Autobody and...

 utilizes classic Greek theater elements, Pothole Skinny experiment in the sounds of psych folk
Psych folk
Psychedelic folk or psych folk is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music that originated in the 1960s through the fusion of folk music and psychedelic rock...

 IE: the woods-folk-avant-dark-strings, and Irene Moon
Irene Moon
Irene Moon is an American entomologist, performance artist, musician, playwright, actor, and filmmaker...

's music is principally about her interests and research in entomology
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

. PG Six, aka Pat Gubler from Tower Recordings explores song craft through the resurgence of 1960's British Follk revival and experimental bray harp drones. Through live CD-R
CD-R
A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....

 releases, and the vinyl versions of his Amish Records releases, one can get a keen glimpse of Pat's Musical journey.

Artists on this label

  • American Watercolor Movement
  • Calvin, Don't Jump!
    Calvin, Don't Jump!
    Calvin, Don't Jump! started as the solo recording project of J. Kirk Pleasant, a musician with extensive connections to the Elephant 6 Collective. Before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he contributed to releases from bands like the Olivia Tremor Control, Black Swan Network, and...

  • Flaming Fire
    Flaming Fire
    Flaming Fire is an American arts collective and experimental rock band from Brooklyn, New York, USA, which formed in 2000.Other projects include live performance, film, comics and the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible .The band is on avant rock label Silly Bird Records, home to bands like Autobody and...

  • Irene Moon
    Irene Moon
    Irene Moon is an American entomologist, performance artist, musician, playwright, actor, and filmmaker...

  • PG Six
  • Outhern Acific
  • Pothole Skinny
  • Stephen Connolly
    Stephen Connolly
    Stephen Patrick Connolly is a Scottish football midfielder currently on trial with Albion Rovers. He is a product of Clyde's youth system.-Career:...

  • Your Team Ring
  • Fireworks Collage Project with Daniel Carter
    Daniel Carter (musician)
    Daniel Carter is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s...


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