VA - Swing on Low (2023)

Swing on Low’ is the latest compilation from La Sape Records. The collection offers a panoramic view of the vibrant underground bubbling below the Australian music landscape.

Part spiritual jazz, avant-garde with neo-classical stylings; the sounds within are untethered to specific genre or scenes. Rather, solo experimenters (for the most part) carving contemporary spaces for themselves to explore where they balance tradition and innovation in composition.

Presented as a 10-track album, titled after La Sape’s bi-monthly radio show. Mirroring the radio show, the album stitches together movements running in parallel that may otherwise never meet. Most importantly it offers us an outlet to highlight the exceptional music submitted to La Sape, which ultimately is often turned away due to DIY resources or scheduling conflicts.

Swing on Low features label stays Erica Tuccceri, David Versace & Youfez. Close collaborators; George Sheridan, Elle Shimada & Hekka. And some of our favourite Australian artists Grievous Bodily Calm, NIGHTMUSIC, The Person and closed by the incomparable Olive Knight.

After six years of La Sape Records, ’Swing on Low’ acts as a manifesto for the label’s next six. A broadening of sounds and celebration of the diverse and innovative humans experimenting in a dense aural ecosystem at the bottom of the earth.