SML - (PRESALE 6/26/26) Spontaneous Music Live (HEAVY WEIGHT JACKET POLYLINED INNER VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Artist: SML
Title: Spontaneous Music Live
Genre: Jazz
Label: International Anthem Recording Co.
SML is a Los Angeles based quintet featuring Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu,
Josh Johnson, Booker Stardrum, and Gregory Uhlmann.
Spontaneous Music Live contains two side-length pieces of unedited
improvisation, recorded live at Los Angeles venue Zebulon during SML's
December 2025 three-night residency, just weeks after the release of the band's
second album HOW YOU BEEN. It was recorded and mixed live to stereo tape
by Bryce Gonzales (the same engineer/wizard known for his gorgeous live
captures/mixes of Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet).
Between HOW YOU BEEN and their 2024 debut SMALL MEDIUM LARGE
(both of which were heavily edited, shaped and post-produced) the band has
developed a reputation for records that are heavily fused, polished, and punchy.
The medium is on full post-modern display on those LPs, and the band’s post-
production knife can be responsible for much of the perspective—the tastiest
morsels collected, arranged, and rearranged just so.
Spontaneous Music Live removes the curatorial perspective and pulls the
curtain back on that search-pluck-reconstruct editing process. What we’re left
with is the psychedelic realism of the band in situ, in their home town,
collectively improvising, fully in-the-moment, mining for that moment of
discovery. We hear, in macro, each nugget of sound which could be the basis for a
future SML album track, spattered amongst the collective chaos-and-control like stars in the night sky.

Sml – Spontaneous Music Live
Description

Sml's 'Spontaneous Music Live' captures the essence of jazz in an electrifying performance. This vinyl release showcases a blend of improvisation and emotion, highlighting the artist's unique sound and artistry.
Highlights

    Genre: Jazz
    Format: Vinyl
    Label: International Anthem Recording Co.
    Live performance recording
    Innovative and spontaneous compositions

Track Listing

01. Prelude To Feeling

02. Come Away With Me

03. Backwards

04. Fear of Death

05. Someone Who Can Handle You

06. Nothing

01. Say Yes

02. Property

03. Little Lamb

04. Let It Be

05. Long As I've Got You

06. Oh How We Drift Away
Format Details

    Label: International Anthem Recording Co.
    Genre: Jazz
    Format: Vinyl

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: JAZZ
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 06/26/2026