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Midwest label exploring the surreal – avant-garde blended with film noir, as expansive and isolating as the Oklahoma prairie | 🔈 2011-2026

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UTR - 164 | Anjelica Lindsey - Cherokee Gothic for Pipe Organ

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The title Cherokee Gothic comes from an architectural term coined by Frank Lloyd Wright when describing the style of buildings at the University of Oklahoma during an in-person visit to the campus. Wright used the phrase casually to capture the blend of Gothic revival with local adaptations, a uniquely Oklahoman vernacular that layered cultural collisions into architectural form. This composition, however, opens with a neo-gothic interpretation of Amazing Grace, a song known to have been sung by the Cherokee people during their forced removal journey on the Trail of Tears. Both architectural and ancestral, this concept provides a powerful metaphor for the musical architecture of the composition: a work that reclaims and reinterprets a label historically applied by non-Indigenous observers, transforming it through the self-identification and authorship of a Cherokee woman composer.
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released September 19, 2026
Composed and arranged by Anjelica Lindsey
Performed by organist Abraham Ross, D.Mus.
Recorded at Saint James Anglican Church, Vancouver, British Columbia
Mastered by Mark Kuykendall at Wild Mountain Studios Tulsa, Oklahoma by @unknowntonerecords

Did you need a CD in a jewel case version of OKLAHOMA WOMAN QUARTET? Well, it’s your lucky day! OUT NOW on @unknowntonerecords YIELD RECORDINGS Collection, Telling Oklahoma Story through Sound. Order now at ANJELICALINDSEY.COM 💿💿💿💿💿 by @unknowntonerecords

OUT NOW | UTR - 163 | Anjelica Lindsey - Oklahoma Woman Quartet

Oklahoma Woman Quartet is a song cycle for voice and string quartet by Cherokee composer Anjelica Lindsey. At a time when much Western classical music depicting Indigenous subjects emerged from the Indianist movement, comparatively little has been authored by Indigenous composers themselves, and fewer still by Indigenous women. Conceived, composed, orchestrated, notated, and written entirely by Lindsey, the work offers a distinctly feminine Cherokee perspective expressed through the language of contemporary classical music.

Across eleven interconnected songs, Oklahoma Woman Quartet establishes the Oklahoma Woman as a recurring American archetype, one whose journey through work, faith, mortality, and transcendence reflects both personal experience and larger cultural questions. The cycle reflects on life in Oklahoma’s Bible Belt, where religion is often presented as solace amid the demands of modern life, while questioning the distance between inherited belief and lived experience. Songs such as I Write So Thunderous confront hypocrisy, while Am I A Madman? explores the disorienting experience of discovering profound spirituality in nature only to have those experiences dismissed by others. Later movements turn toward displacement, grief, and death before concluding with Remote View, an introspective meditation that quietly suggests the spiritual continuity the narrator had sensed all along.

Rather than drawing upon romanticized images of Indigenous identity, Lindsey writes from lived experience. Her music stands within the traditions of Western chamber music while speaking in an unmistakably contemporary voice shaped by a distinctly American inheritance, with family roots in the Cherokee Nation, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Like many Cherokee families, her own history reflects generations of adaptation and intermarriage, offering a contemporary Cherokee perspective rooted in lived experience rather than historical idealization.

@anjelicalindseyofficial by @unknowntonerecords

For lovers of long form meditative music, my composition Ambient Works: Sainte Chapelle is featured on CAMP Radio in Aulus-les-Bains, France with opportunities to listen at 12pm in USA, 7pm France, and 6pm UK on Monday 5/16🙏🏼 Listen at www.listen.camp🙏🏼 Full circle moment as part of this composition was recorded by us in France🙏🏼 by @unknowntonerecords

Happy Bandcamp Friday!

UTR - 161 | Retrospective (2011-2026)

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Retrospective (2011–2026) collects ten of the most played recordings from the Unknown Tone Records catalog, spanning fifteen years of ambient, experimental, and electro-acoustic music. The compilation brings together a range of artists whose work helped define the label’s sound—moving from intimate guitar pieces and minimal electronic sketches to immersive environmental soundscapes.

Featuring music by Dylan Golden Aycock, Porya Hatami & Lee Anthony Norris, Annie Ellicott, twincities, Olan Mill, Danny Clay, Hedia, and Le Moors, the collection reflects the quiet, cinematic atmosphere that has shaped the label since its early releases.

A look back across the years, Retrospective (2011–2026) captures moments of stillness, memory, and atmosphere from artists across the Unknown Tone community.

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Link in bio 🔗 (https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/retrospective-2011-2026)

1. Dylan Golden Aycock - The Blind Fold 03:06
2. Porya Hatami & Lee Anthony Norris - Perume Technique 09:16
3. Annie Ellicott - Daddy Long Legs (feat. Orla Wren) 05:52
4. twincities - [gentle memoir] 01:08
5. Olan Mill - A 02:42
6. Danny Clay - prologue 02:42
7. Hedia - WHITETREES 08:52
8. Annie Ellicott - The Going Prayer 04:36
9. Le Moors - Where A River Sings 06:26
10. twincities - gentle melody 05:33 by @unknowntonerecords

Out today on @unknowntonerecords is my newest single, AMBIENT WORKS: Sainte-Chapelle, a long form single album featuring the composition SANCTUM. The piece is an early sketch of my Requiem, placed within our 2023 field recordings within the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France, creating an ambient organum-esque piece near the birthplace of polyphony. Pictured are images from the day we captured the 20 minute recording of the ambience inside the stained glass chapel. Mark traveled thousands of miles on planes and trains with his pro audio equipment to capture the sounds of Paris. Enjoy meditating on this piece while you study, write, work or rest🙏🏼❤️✨❄️⛪️ by @unknowntonerecords

UTR - 160

Anjelica Lindsey | Ambient Works: Sainte-Chapelle

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Ambient Works: Sainte-Chapelle is a 16-minute site-specific composition titled SANCTUM created from a live field recording made by Mark Kuykendall and Anjelica Lindsey at Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France, in October, 2023.

The recording took place within the upper chapel, constructed in the mid-13th century under King Louis IX to house precious Christian relics, including the Crown of Thorns. Renowned for its soaring Rayonnant Gothic architecture and expansive stained glass windows, the chapel created a unique recording environment shaped by vertical volume and reflecting upon over 1,000 luminous stained glass surfaces.

This work integrates the natural ambience of the space including movement, conversation, and the subtle sounds of world travelers passing through the chapel layered with an abstracted pipe organ study composed and performed by Anjelica Lindsey. The organ material is derived from early thematic sketches of REQUIEM, her large-scale work for orchestra and choir completed in 2024. Rather than presenting the themes in developed form, Lindsey reframes them as sonic gestures allowing them to interact fluidly with the architectural and social soundscape of the chapel.

The result is both a document of a specific acoustic moment and an early compositional inquiry into sacred resonance and public ritual.

Stream and Download the single on our @bandcamp

https://anjelicalindsey.bandcamp.com/track/ambient-works-sainte-chapelle by @unknowntonerecords

First release of 2026!

UTR - 159 | Out Now

Glass Hive - Glass Hive EP

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Brian Phillips aka Anatolya hailing from Florida returns to Unknown Tone with his Glass Hive EP side project previously self released. A slight departure from the brooding moods of the Anatolya moniker, GLASS HIVE was constructed to elicit feelings of calm, to unearth hazy memories of early innocence, and to lure the chaotic mind into the woods of sleep.

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Digital release only

Follow more music from Glass Hive here:

glasshive.bandcamp.com

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released January 22, 2026
Music Recored and Produced by Brian Phillips

Hand assembled, hand written, hand stamped.

All four Glass Hive songs to date. (55 mins runtime):
Mother Of Many
Calandrinia
Jupiter's Beard
Jack In The Pulpit
Snow In Summer

Link in Bio 🔗 ⬆️ by @unknowntonerecords

UTR - 158

The New Honey Shade – Geosyncline

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Subsurface listening. Sonic stratigraphy. A geology of tone.

On Geosyncline, Tulsa-based experimental ambient artist The New Honey Shade (aka Mark Kuykendall) delves deep into the earth both literally and sonically. Using a Geofon microphone by LOM, Kuykendall captured subsonic vibrations from bridges, overpasses, soil, water pipes, and electrical boxes. These ultra-sensitive contact mics—designed to detect seismic activity were paired with minimal processing and a restrained touch, allowing the natural textures of the captured environments to speak for themselves.

The result is a work grounded in field recording and sound design, rooted in deep bass and rich with tactile resonance. The only post-production flourish comes from the use of reverb, adding space without obscuring the raw, physical quality of the source recordings.

This album is not just an exploration of the planet’s hidden rhythms it is also a deeply personal excavation. As Kuykendall reflects:

“I grew up with frequent ear infections. Moments of pain and isolation where all I could hear were the deepest internal rumbles and distant, muffled echoes. Geosyncline is an homage to those formative sonic memories, recreated through vibration and tone rather than melody.”

With Geosyncline, The New Honey Shade invites the listener underground into a meditative, immersive space where hums, drones, and mechanical whispers create a geology of sound. It is ambient music for deep listening headphones on, volume up, feet on the ground.

For fans of geophonic sound design, lowercase music, and process-based audio art.
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released July 19, 2025

All Sounds + Production by Mark Kuykendall
Mastering by Mark Kuykendall at Wild Mountain Studios 2025 by @unknowntonerecords

UTR - 157

Anjelica Lindsey - Soliloquy for Solo Cello

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Soliloquy for Solo Cello is the first single from Chamber in Red, a forthcoming album of chamber works by composer Anjelica Lindsey, written during the winter and spring of 2025. Performed by cellist Mitchell Lyon and recorded in New York City in April 2025, the piece is an introspective work for unaccompanied cello, exploring nuance, phrasing, and tone through a restrained, minimalist approach.

As an introduction to the Chamber in Red collection, Soliloquy highlights Lindsey’s focus on clarity, economy of gesture, and expressive depth within a small instrumental palette.
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released July 18, 2025
Composed and Arranged by Anjelica Lindsey
Cello by Mitchell Lyon
Recorded in New York City April, 2025
Mastered by Mark Kuykendall at Wild Mountain Studios Tulsa, Oklahoma by @unknowntonerecords

$UTR - 156 ANATOLYA - Yellow Galaxie _____________________________________________ ANATOLYA returns to Unknown Tone Records with Yellow Galaxie — a brooding, three-track EP that follows his 2016 full-length Mirror Message. Layered with warbled pads, detuned synths, and lo-fi VHS textures, this release drifts through a darker, more fortuitous terrain—where analog grit and fractured signals converge in slow motion. The solo project of Florida-born artist Brian Phillips, ANATOLYA blends ambient decay with experimental electronics. Known also for side projects OOTHECA, GLASS HIVE, and REDGLAIVE, Phillips explores the blurred edges of sound and memory, always just beyond the signal’s clarity. Digital release only. LINK 🔗 IN BIO ⬆️ ——————————————————————————— Purchase physical CD direct from artist: anatolya.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-galaxie by @unknowntonerecords$

The New Honey Shade - Untitled (For Caleb)

Dedicated to the memory of Caleb John Reed [6/14/1982 - 5/6/2025]

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REMEMBERING ARCHITECT CALEB JOHN REED (1982-2025)

Wild Mountain Studios would not exist without Caleb and so we extend our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of architect Caleb John Reed (1982–2025), a visionary architect whose contributions enriched Tulsa’s architectural landscape and beyond. Caleb, whose distinguished career included tenures at Arkitektfirma Helen & Hard in Norway, Marmol-Radziner in Los Angeles, and Marlon Blackwell in Fayetteville before his return to Tulsa with his independent architecture practice, FIELDSPACE, and roles with Freese Architecture. He passed away on May 6, 2025, at the age of 42.

Caleb’s work was characterized by a profound commitment to vernacular architecture and a deep love for the Oklahoma landscape, ecology, and history. For the past eight years, he channeled his creativity into designing and building innovative, place-based homes and a Studio on Wild Mountain in Osage County for himself and longtime friends, Mark Kuykendall and Anjelica Lindsey. His projects not only transformed physical spaces but also served as a meaningful bridge connecting personal vision with Tulsa’s cultural heritage.

Caleb was a valued member of the community. His extraordinary talent and passion for architecture leave a legacy that will be felt for generations to come.

Our deepest sympathies go out to his family, friends, and all who had the honor of knowing him. We remain committed to celebrating his visionary contributions to Wild Mountain Studios and will continue to honor his memory in our work.

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Link in bio ⬆️ by @unknowntonerecords