Protomaterial Records

Trash Island is out now (everywhere except Spotify)!!! 🗑 Thank you for the support, and for lending your ears as our band takes this new step. 👉Friends in Montreal: we’re having a listening party on Monday, May 18th, 6pm at The Secret Loft. Refreshments will be served and the album will be listened to in completion. Details in bio. 👈 Thank you to Dan, Michael, Joan, and everyone at @elasticrecordings and @protomaterial for helping us share our music with the world. Thanks to @nic.gaumond @kaspymastering @wobaudio , the team that made it sound so good. They’ve been with us since the beginning and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Special thanks to @megumi.masaki , @aaronchoulai , @shabakahutchings , and the rest of our mentors and friends from our time at the @banffcentre , where much of this music was written. The creation of this album was made possible thanks to the support of le Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec. ~~~~~ Trash Island is the world we all live in We want to welcome you Aluminum and polyurethane Will make your dreams come true Among the seas of foam Trash Island is our home So come with us You’ll never ever be alone…

Big announcement: Our new record TRASH ISLAND comes out one week from TODAY. 🙀 Trash Island envisions a future where all of humanity lives on a floating island of waste. Wielding imaginative compositions by the whole band, an irreverence towards the conventions of genre, and a sharp, surrealist lens, the album reflects both the emotional weight and bizarre reality of the climate crisis. Welcome to the island of trash future humanity calls home: the last inhabitable place on earth, a sprawling metropolis of plastic in all forms. 🗑 Photo by @evanshayphoto

++ new release ++ “Silver Hands,” the second single from the debut album of Kathryn Schulmeister (@kcs.bass ), is now available! “Imagining Hands” is the debut solo project of Kathryn Schulmeister. The album, which comprises double bass, voice, and electronics, draws on the story of “The Handless Maiden,” as told in traditional folklore and in the writings of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and traces a path through loss, endurance, and transformation. Each piece is shaped through a mix of composition and improvisation, with predetermined forms that leave space for intuition and discovery. At its core, this work is about learning how to stay, to listen, and to grow stronger through what is difficult, and about rebuilding, or imagining, a voice from within. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio 🗓 Full album “Imagining Hands” coming June 12, 2026 — Credits Words and music by Kathryn Schulmeister Kathryn Schulmeister plays double bass, keyboards, electronics, and vocals Aurora Bison Lagattuta, field recording and vocals on “The Wolf’s Eyelash” Recorded September 19–21, 2024 at the Conrad Prebys Music Center, University of California San Diego Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Alexandria Smith (@alexandriasmithmusic ) Iolanda Rodríguez, artwork Robbie Bui (@rob.bie._ ), photography Produced by Kathryn Schulmeister, Alexandria Smith, and Joan Arnau Pàmies Special thanks to Joan Arnau Pàmies and Alexandria Smith for believing in this work and helping me bring it to life. I couldn’t have done this without their support and expertise. Special thanks to Jessica Flores and the Department of Music at the University of California San Diego for their generous support. This project was made possible through support from the Scholarly & Artistic Activities Grant from the Faculty Research Committee at the University of the Pacific. #experimental #contemporaryclassical #improvisation

Presentación del disco Sis poemes de Cesc Pla Santamans @osbrucat1714 con música de @raipazc grabado por @protomaterial con @lsurtu al piano y una servidora ….. en el @palaumusicacat , fotos de José Casanova Crear hoy en día es de por sí una revolución, crear conjuntamente es directamente anarquista, y confeccionar un disco (un disco!!) de Lied HOY, y completamente a pulmón, es una especie de fenomenología sobrenatural. Es por este tipo de proyectos que me honra poder cantar, para hacer sonar este entusiasmo conjunto, esta valentía de poner foco en medio de este caos y que algo nuevo crezca. Cómo negarse a subirse a semejante tren al ser invitada, uno que barre con todas las preguntas existenciales que se puede hacer uno por la mañana (o por la noche, tarde) que empiezan en general con un ‘para qué’? Pues, para esto. Y para que después lo escuches… Es imposible distanciarse políticamente cuando se trata de arte y su contemporaneidad, y para mí esto es una revolución.

++ new release ++ About Aphrodite (@about_aphrodite ), the duo formed by theremin and saxophone player Gilda Razani and pianist and electronic artist Hanzō Wanning, releases “Sartschubeh,” the first single from their upcoming album, “Songs Without Words.” “Songs Without Words” is About Aphrodite’s most fully realized statement yet—an album that moves through the world without needing a passport, drawing from Persian folk tradition, jazz, chamber music, and electronic texture to build something entirely its own. The duo of Gilda Razani and Hanzō Wanning has a rare gift for holding opposites in suspension: dreamy lightness and deep longing, meticulous arrangement and spontaneous flight, the intimate and the expansive. Percussionist Fethi Ak joins the duo on several tracks, adding a third pulse to an already richly layered sound. The result is a record that disolves the borders between genres entirely. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio 🗓 Full album “Songs Without Words” coming June 26, 2026 — Credits Music by About Aphrodite Gilda Razani (@gilda_razani ), theremin and saxophone Hanzō Wanning (@hanzo_wanning ), piano and synthesizers Fethi Ak (@fethi.ak.percussion ), guest percussion Iolanda Rodríguez, artwork Produced by About Aphrodite and Joan Arnau Pàmies (@inlet.industry ) #jazz #world #folk #fusion #improvisation

++ new release ++ Fantast (@fantastband ), the Viennese duo formed by brothers Daniel and Mario Gschwendtner, release their new single “Fortune Fades Away,” the third taste of their forthcoming EP “Beast Within”, out via Protomaterial Records. “Fortune Fades Away” is an upbeat yet pointed allegory of capitalism and economic instability, framed through the lens of a high-stakes poker game where the protagonist watches their fortune slip away hand by hand. The track channels the thrill and precariousness of the gamble as a metaphor for life under an economic system defined by volatility and chance. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio — Credits Daniel Gschwendtner, vocals, guitars Mario Gschwendtner, drums, synths, programming Joan Arnau Pàmies, bass guitar Recorded at Casafont Studio (@casafont_records ) Mixed by Fantast and Joan Arnau Pàmies Mastered by Ángel Medina Iolanda Rodríguez, artwork Iolanda Sebé (@iolandasebe ), photography Engineered and produced by Joan Arnau Pàmies (@inlet.industry ) #experimental #pop #electronica #hiphop

Another clip from Anything But You, live at the Barn. Do you feel musically massaged by our mystically meandering melodic musings?

++ new release ++ “Lions Eat First,” the first single from the upcoming album of Otto Orany (@otto_orany ), is now available! With “10 Blue-Penciled Stories,” Otto Orany continues to carve out one of the most distinctive voices emerging from the Czech Republic today—a composer and artist who resists easy categorization. Orany thrives in hybrid territory, moving fluidly between classical composition, electronic experimentation, and jazz, often within the span of a single piece. For this record, he has assembled a remarkable lineup of collaborators: a true chamber ensemble at its core, enriched by the grounding pulse of drums and bass that give the music an unmistakably rock-rooted physicality. Ten stories rendered in sound, each one a world unto itself. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio 🗓 Full album “10 Blue-Penciled Stories” coming June 19, 2026 — Credits Music by Otto Orany Otto Orany, keyboards Marek Buble (@marekbuble ), saxophone Michael Šporcl (@michael_sporcl ), clarinet, recorder Vojtěch Jouza, oboe, English horn Ondřej Šindelář, bassoon, contraforte Alena Hönigová, harpsichord Marek Leždík (@marek.lezdik ), bass Adam Rek (@adam_rek ), percussion Pavel Plašil (@pavel_plasil ), drums Engineered by Adam Pakosta (@zvukarska_dilna ) Mixed by Ian Goddard Mastered by Joan Arnau Pàmies (@inlet.industry ) Artwork by Iolanda Rodríguez Photography by Lukas Batha Produced by Otto Orany and Joan Arnau Pàmies PROTOM38-S1 #experimental #jazz #electronicmusic #classicalmusic

++ acte ++ El proper diumenge 26 d’abril a les 12:00, sou benvinguts a la presentació del nou disc de Rai Paz (@raipazc ), “Sis poemes de Cesc Pla Santamans,” al @palaumusicacat . Hi assistiran el compositor, el poeta Cesc Pla Santamans (@osbrucat1714 ), la soprano Mercedes Gancedo (@mercedes_gancedo ), la pianista Leyre Sáenz de Urturi (@lsurtu ) i el productor i director de Protomaterial Records, Joan Arnau Pàmies (@inlet.industry ). Si hi voleu assistir, confirmeu assistència a través de missatge privat o a través del correu [email protected]. #novamúsica #lied #MúsicaClàssica

Japanese Technique is OUT NOW!!! I love this song, and I hope you do too. When I wrote it I was in a moment of sadness and uncertainty and I found surrender in those. I want to thank @inlet.industry who mixed this track so beautifully and proposed to go on this direction. Thank you @yvesrousselstudio for being so brilliant and kind. Music, arrangements and lyrics by me Produced by @inlet.industry and me Sound Engineering @wolvesinsound Mixed by @inlet.industry Mastered by @yvesrousselstudio Clarinet by @beltgonzalez Ph by @tree_ilan

++ new release ++ “Animus,” the first single from the debut album of Kathryn Schulmeister (@kcs.bass ), is now available! “Imagining Hands” is the debut solo project of Kathryn Schulmeister. The album, which comprises double bass, voice, and electronics, draws on the story of “The Handless Maiden,” as told in traditional folklore and in the writings of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and traces a path through loss, endurance, and transformation. Each piece is shaped through a mix of composition and improvisation, with predetermined forms that leave space for intuition and discovery. At its core, this work is about learning how to stay, to listen, and to grow stronger through what is difficult, and about rebuilding, or imagining, a voice from within. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio 🗓 Full album “Imagining Hands” coming June 12, 2026 — Credits Words and music by Kathryn Schulmeister Kathryn Schulmeister plays double bass, keyboards, electronics, and vocals Aurora Bison Lagattuta, field recording and vocals on “The Wolf’s Eyelash” Recorded September 19–21, 2024 at the Conrad Prebys Music Center, University of California San Diego Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Alexandria Smith (@alexandriasmithmusic ) Iolanda Rodríguez, artwork Robbie Bui (@rob.bie._ ), photography Produced by Kathryn Schulmeister, Alexandria Smith, and Joan Arnau Pàmies Special thanks to Joan Arnau Pàmies and Alexandria Smith for believing in this work and helping me bring it to life. I couldn’t have done this without their support and expertise. Special thanks to Jessica Flores and the Department of Music at the University of California San Diego for their generous support. This project was made possible through support from the Scholarly & Artistic Activities Grant from the Faculty Research Committee at the University of the Pacific. #experimental #contemporaryclassical #improvisation

My new album is out on Vinyl and CD You can go in link in bio, Bandcamp Ore on streaming platforms #Vinyl #jazz #newmusic #vinyllovers #icelandicjazz