Friends making art

About

Record label in Carrboro, NC, founded in June 2019.

Sleepy Cat Records is a partnership between Gabriel Anderson and Saman Khoujinian, built to support their art and the art of their friends. Our wellspring of creative work began in 2008, at a high school in Miami, FL. Soon afterward, Saman moved to North Carolina to study philosophy. Gabe eventually dropped out of college in Florida and moved to NC (Carrboro, specifically) as well. Having found a new home in the Triangle music scene, we set out on an immersive near-decade of music-making. Several project names, several records, singles, splits, videos, and countless collaborations with folks who have remained a broad and enriching chosen family. 2019 saw the founding of Sleepy Cat Records. The label is, in the first place, a home-base from which to nurture and grow our creative community. In addition to the traditional role of releasing music from artists whose work we find meaningful, we’re deep divers in the process of generating music from top to bottom - production, session work, audio engineering/mixing/mastering, art direction and design.

Our Model

We don’t take the masters from our artists, nor do we have exclusivity on works beyond the release we agree to collaborate on. This allows artists to maintain full control of the music they release with us as well as flexibility to collaborate with other labels, or release independently. If you want to learn more about our business model, please drop us a line and we’d be happy to chat.

Shipping

  • We use 100% recycled and recyclable packaging made by EcoEnclose.

  • We can do local-pickup from our Carrboro location for NC residents. If you’re not from NC and still want to do local pickup just shoot us an email and we can set it up for you.

  • We are a small operation and, while we try to ship asap, we allow ourselves 3 days from order date to ship orders.

  • Email us with any shipping preferences (shipping service, rush orders, packaging etc)

Artist Submissions

For now we only work with local artists that we can hug on the regs (virtual hugs only at the moment). We still welcome all submissions and enjoy checking out your art and hearing your story. Links are easiest. We look forward to hearing from you.

Jobs and partnerships

We usually have some work backlogged and offer low paid internships on occasion. Types of work: digital distro grunt work, submitting lyrics and credits, media creation, music videos, spotify Canvas loops, content chunking for social.

Other dreams include booking, distribution scaling, licensing, blogging, podcasting, public resources.

Press, Radio, and Booking

Please email us at one of the below emails to inquire.

Label Services

Our collective is starting to offer services to non-label artists!

Services include:

  • Press & Radio campaigns

  • Release campaign consulting

  • Art direction and visual asset creation - photo, video, covert art, design

  • Audio production - production, recording, mixing

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Get in touch

Share your art, stories, feedback, suggestions, cool ideas, recommendations, or just say “hi”

 

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