ABOUT KITCHEN. LABEL
“I know of a kitchen, one that is filled with the light of love, even on its darkest days.”
Kitchen. Label is a record label and publishing house with a focus on publishing music and artbook editions of high quality and integrity. Since its first release in 2008, Kitchen. Label has been bridging the multi-layered cities of Tokyo and Singapore, growing into an internationally recognized platform for the works of emerging artists aspidistrafly, haruka nakamura, FJORDNE and ironomi. Kitchen. Label’s music releases are finely crafted art objects that straddle different media—CDs lovingly wrapped within a concertina portfolio of art photography, art books and immersive websites showcasing film-like montages that unfold alongside clips from their releases. Kitchen. Label carefully curates a repertory of sound and images that showcase a distinctive aesthetic vision, shared among their artists and collaborators from around the world.
The label’s artists seem to share an obsession with sensuous, fleeting phenomena. They create painterly and evocative sound collages that mimic the shifting play of light and shadow fluttering across a wall or
Kitchen. Label is a record label and publishing house with a focus on publishing music and artbook editions of high quality and integrity. Since its first release in 2008, Kitchen. Label has been bridging the multi-layered cities of Tokyo and Singapore, growing into an internationally recognized platform for the works of emerging artists aspidistrafly, haruka nakamura, FJORDNE and ironomi. Kitchen. Label’s music releases are finely crafted art objects that straddle different media—CDs lovingly wrapped within a concertina portfolio of art photography, art books and immersive websites showcasing film-like montages that unfold alongside clips from their releases. Kitchen. Label carefully curates a repertory of sound and images that showcase a distinctive aesthetic vision, shared among their artists and collaborators from around the world.
The label’s artists seem to share an obsession with sensuous, fleeting phenomena. They create painterly and evocative sound collages that mimic the shifting play of light and shadow fluttering across a wall or
the surging and expiring of the sun’s resplendent rays at dusk. These deceptively simple metaphors, however, belie the feats of engineering that have gone into crafting them. Kitchen.’s artists weave elements such as “classical”, “jazz”, “folk” and “electronic” into texture-focused arrangements that unravel languidly and deliberately through a time and space that seems to quiver more tremulously than our own.
Despite its domestic-sounding name and penchant for delicate gestures and empty, impassive interiors, Kitchen. Label is a thoroughly metropolitan phenomenon. Its imagination is fired by promising glimpses of life salvaged from the city. A bit like the roving eye of the flâneur in Baudelaire, who found solace in the bittersweet juxtapositions of urban life, Kitchen. Label documents momentary flickers of melancholic beauty in unlikely environments.
Kitchen. Label is part of the art company Kitchen. (est. 2005) which also comprises of design house Kitchen. Studio.
Despite its domestic-sounding name and penchant for delicate gestures and empty, impassive interiors, Kitchen. Label is a thoroughly metropolitan phenomenon. Its imagination is fired by promising glimpses of life salvaged from the city. A bit like the roving eye of the flâneur in Baudelaire, who found solace in the bittersweet juxtapositions of urban life, Kitchen. Label documents momentary flickers of melancholic beauty in unlikely environments.
Kitchen. Label is part of the art company Kitchen. (est. 2005) which also comprises of design house Kitchen. Studio.
COMPANY PROFILE
Name
Kitchen. Label
Founded
2008
Company Registration Number
53133659W
Office Location
29 Everitt Road, Singapore 428576
Contact
info@kitchen-label.com
Staff
Ricks Ang : Label Manager / Producer
April Lee : Art Director
Darryl Jingwen Wee : Contributing Writer
Business Outline
1. Record label, Publisher
2. Production and Coordination of Art Projects
3. Art Direction, Web design, Graphics Design