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Batch5 launches June 27th

  • Jun 12

Our first batch of the year, released back in March started 2025 with a quiet bang. We recommend checking them out if you haven’t yet - they have landed on streaming services

by now. We’re continuing our journey through 2025 with a fresh batch of records, again

turning our ears towards local shores.



We’re happy to present two albums from our beloved (cough) Poland, an eclectic long-form

drift through a horizon flattened by the immense perspective of time, and a discordant entity playing by its own rules, clashing digital precision with analogue rawness.



Batch5 consists of:


~OA10~ Monika Pich - Slowmotion

Monika Pich deftly marries the deep, rumbly synth sounds with a nostalgic, almost romantic use of instruments offering nothing less than a masterpiece of mood. "Slowmotion" presents a long view of eternity in the grain of sand, a landscape flattened by immense perspective, yet underscored by a deeply humanistic undercurrent of consciousness and cosmic vitality.


~OA11~ Wysocki / Jaśniewski - Six Compositions for Whistling

You might know them from their solo projects - Fischerle and Genetics & Windsurfing but as an energized duo they play with your perception presenting playful track names like “Spectral Study of Slurping” on the outside and, inside, a collage of sound in the vein of musique concrète updated for the modern world.


We offer a free-of-charge sampler from both albums and an offer for both cassettes, to be shipped on or around the premiere - 27th of June. As usual, get it on our Bandcamp: https://oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-5-2025

We will collect all streaming and buy links on our push page: https://push.fm/fl/okla-batch5


The cassette offer is limited to 10 bundles and not only includes savings on both cassettes but also on shipping.

AND should you take us up on this offer you will also get both albums, in full, digitally as BC codes.


Take a chance, take a leap.


Love ya,

okla

Welcome 2025, welcome batch4

  • Apr 15

Our first batch of the year is out now.

Venture forth to Bandcamp and celebrate by listening to the albums.

They will come to DSPs in two months.


Two artists on two islands share their worlds, struggles, and modes of achieving peace.

Hailing from the United Kingdom, Mute Branches crafts an idiosyncratic collection from the beyond, where post-rock, electronica, and ambient merge into one curious beast.

Stationing in Australia, the Japan-born Heroarky brings an equally sombre and hopeful swatch of post-minimalist tracks crafted between hospital visits, hoping for a better tomorrow.



///OA08 Mute Branches ~ Us Without the World

We are in excess of situations where one would like to escape as far as possible; to, for a second, indulge the fantasies of the greener grass in the mythical Elsewhere.

James Cresswell’s Mute Branches project ventures to the final frontier on “Us Without the World”, an exercise in optimism weighed down by realism, searching the stars for hope only to find the baggage we already brought with us.


Nine cinematic tracks weave and bob through modes of expression ranging from warm fuzzy drones, colourful electronica, radio-sampled audio collage, retro-futuristic daydreams, guitar-led drifty slowcore, up to dark ambient meditations.


An optimistic sense of wonder and discovery spreads through the first part of the album, only for the second half to find us adrift and confronted with something stranger, colder, and more unpredictable. Disparate by design but united in colouring within Cresswell’s idiosyncratic lines, the tracks give “Us Without the World” a unique flavour of dreaminess and weariness.


Synths, guitars, samples, and voice come together creating a sense of place in full, glorious stereo, forming the most complete of Mute Branches’ releases thus far.


After the post-rock, there is still us. Just us.


Special thanks to the beloved people and ghosts of planet Earth.


James Cresswell – sampler, synthesizer, guitar, computer, field recordings

Design: Michał Kęskiewicz



/ About the Artist /


Starting out with an interest in the textural soundscaping of ambient music and post-rock, James Cresswell’s Mute Branches project has continued to draw on a diverse set of influences in an effort to conjure up a soundtrack for half-remembered spaces and the places you can’t go back to. As well as self-releasing work, he has had music out on labels such as Disintegration State, Bricolage Collective, and Front and Follow.


Find him here:




///OA09 Heroarky ~ Healing Process

Three years after being diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer, Heroarky presents “Healing Process”, a sonic representation of distinct moments and feelings experienced during recovery.


Confined to bed, he dreamt of spaces. The sounds he longed for, from bustling cityscapes to quiet forests, formed a collection, the basis of an imaginary map of a healing journey. “Healing Process”, created between hospital visits and treatments, is an extraordinarily intimate soundscape filled with swirling, warm, synthesizers, raw heartbeat recordings, and Organelle M ambient excursions, all reflecting the emotional states he went through - capturing the pain, the hope, the stillness, and the resilience of healing.


A vulnerable, minimalistic voyage of an ailing body and resilient mind. Raw, imperfect, and restorative, reminding us of the fragile yet constant rhythm of life.


A special thank you to my friends, family, and partner for their unwavering support throughout this challenging time and beyond.


“I dedicate this album to my mother who passed away several years ago.”


Mastering: Mark Bihler & Aki Tanaka

Design: Michał Kęskiewicz



/ About the Artist /


Heroarky is a Tokyo-born, Sydney-based experimental ambient music artist known for fusing minimalist influences with cinematic soundscapes. His music blends organic and synthetic sounds, creating distinct sonic landscapes. Heroarky’s compositions offer an intricate, evolving sound that stirs emotion and invites exploration.


Find him here:





Big thank you to the artists for trusting us with their precious creations.


Love.

okla year one

  • Jan 11

Hello Friends,


Three batches later we are in the new year, celebrating one year of Okla. Still seems a bit surreal or maybe that's the lack of coffee speaking. If I (Bartosz) can briefly speak for myself then I'd like to thank Michał and Michał for their energy and hard work this year. A group effort makes running a label... real.


We are so proud that we could bring these seven records to your ears. Thank you for your patience, interest, streams, purchases, and likes. Huge shout-outs to our artists that have entrusted their works to us. We believe together we gave these records a fair fighting chance among the deluge of releases. We certainly love all of them and believe all will find their audience, sooner or later.

In tow, we would like to thank all of the journalists and media venues that has supported us through reviews, previews, interviews, and track placements. In alphabetic order, hit it Johnny.

A Closer Listen, Ambient Station, Anxious Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, Brzmi w Trzcinie, CITR, E-Lodie / Richard Heinemann, Eclectic Fantastic / Adventurous Music, Eternal Fusion Radio, Fringes of Sound, Front and Follow, Grey Clay Radio, Jakub Knera, Joyful Union Cassette Resource, KEXP / Pacific Notions, Na Obrzeżach ,Obscure Sound, Off Radio Kraków, Outside Noise, Paradise Ajar, Polityka / Polifonia, Radio Alhara, Radio Kapitał, Radio Kraków Kultura, Radio Luz, Santa Sangre Magazine, SilenceAndSound, Small Albums, Space Is the Place Radio Show, Spectrasonic Sound, Spirala Art Gallery, Święta Krowa, The Moderns, Tobira Records, Widoki.

As grassroots music journalism is getting gutted left and right, these outlets and individuals are keeping the beacons lit for music discovery. We salute you.


Speaking of grassroots, we cannot omit to include our first live seance which happened back in June in Święta Krowa. On the hot, hot Sunday it was a small dream-come-true to hear our Batch2 artists play live. Thank you again to the attendees. In 2025 we dream of organizing further seances, possibly in places other than Kraków.

Unfortunately, the past year has been rather unkind to independent music venues as we've heard about the closures of Święta Krowa, Krakowska34, Farby, Ignorantka, and Widoki. We cannot imagine the complexity of running such a place in the current climate so running out of energy for battle is understandable. We can only hope these places, that were so vital for small artists of all kinds, inspire others to gather, create, and dream.


We certainly don't expect to stop anytime soon. The releases for 2025 are being clarified as I type with the first ones to be unveiled shortly™.


Lastly, we are running a shelf-cleaning promo on our Bandcamp - order two cassettes and get one free! Just specify in the order comments and we'll get back to you shortly with a confirmation and BC codes. In the upcoming days we will also be posting some BC codes via the BC community so be sure to share and partake.


Thank you for a great first year. Onto another.


Love,

okla


Oh, you're still here? Everyone loves end-of-year lists so here are our favourites (not necessarily released in 2024).

Michał Wiśniowski

  • Scott Gailey - Polysensuality

  • Suzanne Ciani, Jinathan Firoussi - Golden Apples of the Sun

  • The Black Dog - Music For Photographers

  • Hania Rani, Dobrawa Choczer - Inner Symphonies

  • Domenique Dumot - People On Sunday

  • Terakke - Improvisational Loops

  • Sky H1 - Azure

  • Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Dark Eyes

  • Susumu Yakota - Sakura

  • Suso Saiz - Nothing Is Objective

  • V.A - Muscat X(Test Pressing II)

Michał Kęskiewicz

Bartosz Szturgiewicz


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