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Release Roundup: April 2024 🪷

I started Release Roundup under CLM in August 2020, and have published one EVERY month since - and this edition will be my final.

This has always been a “passion project” (insert your fav cliche) but truly — the act of engaging with art at a local, communal level will re-arrange your relationship to it. Your consumption has an impact. What you commit your energy - attention, thought, action - to will shape your life; and committing to partake in the music of my community has shaped mine, for the better.

Thank you for supporting this endeavor, and each other. Continue learning, creating, and listening… because I will be!
All love 💚 David Joachims, COO

Check out the full Photospot gallery at circlelotusmedia.com/photospot 🔗

Photospot #18 📷 Clayton Peliti is a photographer in the Oklahoma City area with a bold and organic style.

Clayton began his photography journey during a time of extreme burnout in college. Halfway through completing his bachelor’s degree, he hit a wall: “All I ever did was do homework, practice, and go to class."

On the pursuit of his main career path as a professional percussionist (Peliti currently holds a master’s degree in percussion performance), Clayton found himself too busy for friends, family, and hobbies. “I realized how much of a toll it was taking on my mental state,” he says.

Peliti was initially inspired by photographer and YouTuber Peter McKinnon, whose videos made him want to try photography seriously for the first time — “After that is all history, as they say!”

When considering changes to his style over the years, Clayton reflects on his early show outings: “I would find myself waiting around for the perfect shot... then have barely any photos to work with.” He has since been refining his approach, bringing greater intention to each shot, but with a more candid style, stating, “I work to capture as many moments as possible, to create a story ark that both the artist and their fans can see and experience through those photos.”

Clayton also credits his good friend Dalton Robason for influencing his work “more than anyone else by far”, particularly while they were in a band together (Clayton on drums, Dalton on guitar). “He is an extremely creative person in everything that he does,” Peliti says of Robason, “so I have looked up to him a lot, and work to be as creative and original as he is.”

Here. We. Go. 😤

We would like to introduce your full 2024 NMF outdoor lineup! 🤘🖤⚡️🎸

(full indoor lineups coming soon!)

New Video 🎥 ROZ music puts on a dynamic and entrancing performance in this latest CLM Live session 🪷

ROZ on CLM Live - Full Session Tracklist:1. alright 0:002. guide to the afterlife 5:573. be mine 10:12🎧 Stream ROZ on CLM Live ► https://open.spotify.com/album/5LBCUftpQIPQkXeUXzYsOx?si=v...

Release Roundup: March 2024 🪷

CLM’s Release Roundup has been a catalogue of music released by Oklahoma artists — created and maintained in hopes to empower engagement with the music being made in our communities, and also encourage expansion and enrichment of those communities by connecting through music.

Listen to the official playlist on Spotify | All release roundups (since 2020) are also viewable on the CLM website blog.

Thank you for listening, and thank you for creating.
- David Joachims, Roundup creator & curator

Oklahoma Music Minutes for March 25-29: Music you should hear this week KOSU's Oklahoma Music Minute features musicians and bands from across the state. Here's this week's featured artists.

New Video ⚡️ Check out this high energy performance from metal/punk band Labadie House on CLM Live 🪷

Labadie House on CLM Live - Full Session Tracklist:1. Gighead 0:002. That's My Dawg 2:493. Curtain Call 6:17Recorded on February 3, 2024, in Norman, OK.Sound Engineers: Parker Rhea, Jacob AguileraCa...

💥SUPRISE!!!💥 New 3 track audio and video session. Thank you for having us!

Oklahoma Music Minutes for March 18-22: Music you should hear this week KOSU's Oklahoma Music Minute features musicians and bands from across the state. Here's this week's featured artists.

View the full gallery of featured photos at circlelotusmedia.com/photospot 🪷

Photospot #17 📷 Evi Fokas is a photographer in the Oklahoma City and New York City area with a vivid and intense style.

As a child, Evi Fokas loved Spiderman, and wanted to be just like him; “I would borrow my Mom's point and shoot camera and take photos of anything and everything,” she remembers. Evi started film photography in her freshman year of high school, working in a darkroom with primarily landscapes as subjects; at the end of her college career, she began photographing live music as well.

Increasing the diversity of subjects, Fokas says, has allowed her “to be super experimental in countless ways," while continuing to gain and exude confidence in her practice.

Evi Fokas operates around Oklahoma, NYC, and Brooklyn - check out more of her work at www.evifokas.com

Oklahoma Music Minutes for March 4-8: Music you should hear this week KOSU's Oklahoma Music Minute features musicians and bands from across the state. Here's this week's featured artists.