Tower To The Sea Records

15/03/2023

the records for the new Hakanai album “Decreation” have finally arrived from the pressing plant and are now shipping! all pending orders have shipped but there are still a handful left for purchase if you are so inclined. thank you to everyone who has bought one so far; our first foray into the vinyl market has been a rousing success. that’s pretty cool. thanks bye.

07/03/2023

in case you missed it, last week we released a new song by entitled “Onigiri Time”, a beautiful, tranquil meditation on loneliness and homesickness explored via a fondness for onigiri. it’s catchy and calming at the same time; the perfect song to help combat those late-winter blues. I really enjoy it and I hope you will too!

“Onigiri Time” is out now on our bandcamp and all other streaming services through the link on our bio. thanks for listening :)

11/09/2022

hello. it’s been a month since the release of Hakanai’s “Decreation” and I just wanted to take some time to give thanks for and reflect on all the kind words and support we’ve seen for the album thus far. having done exactly ZERO press, PR outreach, or advertising for this album, it is so humbling to see it spread organically through the digital core of the internet based on word of mouth alone. our songs have made it onto radio stations in Philadelphia, Richmond, Montreal, and Paris; onto countless playlists across the world; and to music blogs in Italy and Japan, the latter of which I want to give a shout-out to with this post. you can check out their review on the subsequent slides.

this review really captures and absorbs the meaning of the album that I believe is spoken more clearly through the music than the lyrics. and even when translated from the Japanese, I can tell how much thought and effort went into this write-up. it truly means the world to me that people resonate with my music in the country that inspired the music in the first place. there are some really excellent lines here too:
“it unfolds like a series of narratives”
“has a quiet and vivid poetry”
“a silence that is the opposite of roaring”

good stuff.

anyway, thank you for listening and for caring about my creations

13/08/2022

hello, Matt here. happy birthday from me to you. here is a picture of me showing you all the new music I’ve written. my band Hakanai has released our debut album "Decreation" today, and it is out now everywhere (except Amazon) and you can listen to it. my only birthday wish is that you may find enjoyment in these musical moments alongside me.

this album has been a labor of love for probably 6 or 7 years now, and I am glad to finally have the weight of its creation off my shoulders. it is by far the most personal and intimate music I have ever made, and it means the world to me. a lot of the songs are about leaving behind the dismal persona I have cultivated over the past decade and attempting to grow as a person and embrace the goodness of the natural world. with this, I aim to destroy any sense of ego or "self" that comes with being a musician—hence the title "Decreation", a term I borrowed from the philosophy of Simone Weil. The album is over 70 minutes long and you are required to listen to THE WHOLE THING because it’s my birthday and I said so. we also have vinyl pre-orders available if you’re into that kind of thing. various links are in our bio. I am exhausted. I think I will retire now.

31/07/2022

good afternoon. today we are excited to announce the very first actual Tower to the Sea Records RECORD: Hakanai’s debut album “Decreation”. it will be a double LP pressed on nice quality, heavyweight 180g black vinyl, housed in a 350gsm deluxe gatefold jacket, hand-numbered and limited to 50 copies. as a bonus we’ll also be throwing in some little prints of photographs from the same roll of film that the album cover was shot on. pre-orders are up now on our bandcamp for the physical record as well as the digital album, releasing in two weeks on August 12th, but until then you can check out the first two singles, “Abendrot” and “We Will Dismantle Death”.

Decreation is a 70+ minute double album by Brooklyn(ish)-based band Hakanai. after releasing a handful of singles over the last few years, Hakanai has turned its attention inward to focus on writing an album of more introspective and improvisational longform material blending the chaotic and cathartic. in more concrete terms, the album fuses art rock, math rock, post-rock, post-hardcore, ambient, and acoustic elements. the core of the band, and , wrote many of these songs over the course of the last five or six years, and the album also features guest appearances from .drums, / , / , and .

the band explains the meaning behind the album as such: Simone Weil once said "the self is only a shadow protected by sin and error," and her term for curing this spiritual malady was "decreation." this word is a neologism to which she did not give an exact definition nor a consistent spelling. in one notebook, she describes its aim as "an undoing of the creature in us—that creature enclosed in self and defined by self. but to undo self one must move through self to the very inside of its definition." perhaps that is what the album aims to accomplish—to humble, study, and destroy the “self” through creative expression.

pre-orders are up now, please enjoy. also please note, due to supply chain shortages/factory backlogs, the records will likely not be shipping out until sometime this autumn. thank you and be well :)

10/12/2021

good afternoon friends. today we release “Films”, an album of ambient, acousmatic, and electronic tunes by New York-based scientist and composer Peter Compo. the concept of “Films” is something of a reimagining of the soundtracks to classic films—with Peter utilizing synths, guitar, tape loops, strings, noise, and glitches to immerse the listener in familiar yet refreshing sonic territories. recommended if you like Aphex Twin, Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, or Karlheinz Stockhausen. “Films” is out now on all streaming platforms (except Amazon, we HATE Amazon) and we also have cassettes for sale on our bandcamp page. thanks for listening and be well :)

02/10/2020

hello friends. today we are releasing the second installation of our Ephemera series, a collection of musical material, found sounds, and rare birds assembled by TttS friends and family. loosely based around a prompt of “ambience”, these twenty tracks are a library of moods, an expanse through a telescope, a frequency in the static. like with last year’s installment, we’ve been amazed by the breadth and richness of the music contributed to the album, and so grateful for all the love and hard work put into these tracks.

this record will be PWYW, with all proceeds going to the The Marsha P. Johnson Institute. they do incredible work defending the rights of black transgender people, and are currently offering relief funds to members of the black trans community impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. as bandcamp waives their fees again this friday, we hope you’ll join us in supporting their cause.

https://towertothesea.bandcamp.com/album/ephemera-vol-2

06/04/2020

new song and music video by Hakanai premiering over at idioteq today!

HAKANAI blend alt indie with math rock for adventurous new singles; listen now on IDIOTEQ.com!

31/12/2019

Our friends in Shake the Baby Til the Love Comes Out and concrete concrete made it onto this list and hell yeah that's pretty cool. It's neat to see this little experimental scene in Brooklyn starting to form out of a once nebulous mass of music. Looking forward to watching it and all our music pals grow and evolve further in the coming decade.

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Also, all merch orders are shipping this week! The holidays are hectic and we haven't had time to catch up, sorry! Your patience and support is eternally appreciated :)

As we pack our bags for holiday travel and prepare to usher 2019 into oblivion, our staff banded together and took a brief moment to reflect on what truly matter here at Bahamas: ultra-sick math ri…

14/12/2019

We've got tapes for Shake the Baby Til the Love Comes Out's new album and they're looking fine as hell! you can buy them online or at one of the freakin' 86 shows that they're playing around the entirety of this wack country.

Check their tour dates here and GO SEE 'EM: https://www.facebook.com/StBTtLCO/photos/a.1520218498039607/2716859868375458/?type=3&theater

Buy the thing HERE: https://towertothesea.limitedrun.com/products/656878-shake-the-baby-til-the-love-comes-out-growth-and-healing-through-bringing-others-down

STBTTLCO's second album! Wonderful and abrasive, meditative and gritty. A baker's half dozen of new tunes that question the dynamic and emotional limits of the two-piece format, and subsequently forgo those limits in favor of unexplored territory. FFO: honestly, not sure. Maybe Faraquet? or Hella? N...

07/11/2019

The cassettes for Drifter by concrete concrete are finally here and they're beautiful. We're so psyched to facilitate this release for a super talented band we adore. You can buy it through our webstore, or at a concrete concrete show near you (hint: they're on a short tour this weekend so be sure to catch that)! They also have vinyl for sale if you're into that! Thanks ♡

The debut full-length from Brooklyn's concrete concrete, now available on cassette! A fantastic album of self-discovery blending the rawness of math rock and post-rock with the focused compositional approaches of jazz and classical. For fans of Toe, Elephant Gym, Desert Vows, LITE, etc.Tracklist:1.....

19/09/2019

New Kite Jennings track out Friday! Support good causes! Yell about climate change!