FELLOWSHIP RECORDS
Fellowship Records curates rare, thought-provoking music from around the world and from Los Angeles’s most exploratory local artists.
As one of the founders and contributors to Figueroa Unanimous Radio (FUR), Fellowship Records offers a diverse selection of music that is difficult to find elsewhere. Our catalog favors the esoteric: field recordings that capture forgotten rituals, minimalist compositions that unfold like secret maps, hybrid folk and electronic experiments, and immersive soundscapes that demand close listening.
Each release whether vintage or contemporary, is selected for depth and originality — music that challenges expectations, and connects listeners to unfamiliar cultures and perspectives.
We work with artists who prioritize intention over trend, and who value the sound quality of physical media. Releases include archival materials and rare recordings, as well as custom cassette comps, and intimate live sessions in hidden LA venues. Fellowship Records builds a community of curious listeners and adventurous creators— small, deliberate, and uncompromising...
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Glacier is a lost score for an experimental film about the disappearance of glaciers around the world. The film project failed to materialize, but the cassette recordings of the improvised sessions by Rodrigo Amarante and Elliot Bergman stuck around. After some processing and layering, they found their way to Matthew Lacasse of Fellowship Records, who was inspired to release the material on cassette tape, the same way these sessions were recorded. The recordings took place at Bergman’s Studio Figueroa in Los Angeles, which is filled with a collection of his own handmade instruments: Metal Tongue Bells, Peace Bells, lamellophones, and gong-like sculptures made of steel and bronze.
Across these tracks Bergman and Amarante craft a sonic landscape that mirrors glacial motion: patient, massive, and quietly inexorable. Sparse arrangements give each note room to resonate, while delicate harmonies and elongated phrases evoke the measured progress of ice across a fjord. Textures shift with subtlety — creaking low-register drones, crystalline plucked timbres, suggesting both the immense weight and the fragile surface of a glacier.
The album favors atmosphere over immediacy. Rhythms, when present, are slow and deliberate; motifs unfold gradually, inviting close listening to catch small transformations. Melodic fragments repeat and refract, much as sunlight fractures across ice, creating moments of quiet luminosity amid a prevailing hush. Production emphasizes space and reverberation, allowing instruments to bloom and decay as if in a vast, reflective hollow. Sonically Glacier leans toward introspection rather than narrative. Amarante’s poetic sensibility and Bergman’s compositional restraint merge to produce songs that feel like reflections on time, endurance, and the subtle forces that shape landscapes and memory. The result is an album that rewards patience: over repeated plays it reveals deeper contours, like mapping a hidden crevasse or noticing the slow calving of a distant shelf.
For listeners drawn to meditative, textural music, Glacier offers a contemplative journey—an elegy to slowness rendered with meticulous detail and quiet beauty.
Using a set of woodblocks, rollers, and stamps, Bergman and Amarante collaborated on a series of handmade ink drawings of which 200 unique cassette are hand-numbered and signed. Available here or locally at FUR (Figueroa Unanimous Radio) located in Highland Park, Los Angeles CA.
“Hello, this is my lucky day. A leisurely Sunday drive suddenly downshifts, my prepared tunes muffled by low power steering fluid. Crackling through the radio, a warning of tin cans and busted piano parts mounts ahead blocking the road. who are these passengers I picked up? Their listless Cold War blues emerge off strips of ferric oxide tape, disintegrating integrated circuits. i empathize with parts of all this music! These beautiful tones synthesized from a myriad of failing parts… am I suffering through? Will I die with dignity? I’ll burn rubber at the boundary of the forbidden! it’s not yet the 21st century… I’m getting out while I still can…”
-Jr. Market
