Music To Watch Seeds Grow By

Cutting 01 Propagate: live sets taken from ‘out in the field’ and given somewhere new to growLive from Saturday at the amazing Field Maneuvers 2026 , where we tended the chill-out space into the early hours. Seeds artists, friends and adjacent - this one’s an extended set from the great Stella Z who released the excellent 005 Seeds album Fig with us last year. Check Field Maneuvers Dot Com for 27...

“Rushing it kills both the plant and the music. The beauty is in waiting with it.” Ibukun Sunday makes music to “meet people in their intensity and guide them toward peace.” Lagos-born, now in north London, he’s spent years translating that intensity into ambient work built from West African rhythmic sensibilities, deep drone, and a trained violist’s ear - a sound cultivated across releases for Ph...

Having spent an album taking the passion flower through birth, bloom, and death, KiF Productions turns a plant’s year into a single day. The Seeds Mix is two hours made for doing nothing in particular – garden, common land, park bench, wherever there’s room to potter, stare, and let time pass without checking it. No lifecycle to hang it on this time, just a day. Dawn eases into focus for the first...

Patricia Wolf’s recent release on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By, Yarrow (the 9th edition in the series), emerged from weeks spent at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, working alongside ecologists studying plants, pollinators, and the slow pressures of a changing climate. The album maps a Yarrow’s life from root to seed: the conditions needed to grow, the quiet undergroun...

Seeds Mix #10: Salamanda's A Cradle for Basil “Everyone needs a moment of silence every once in a while,” Basil seems to know this, too. Salamanda create a bed for Basil’s germination. Watching something small grow in your kitchen makes you pay close attention. The Seoul-based duo Salamanda and the next artist stepping up for Seeds understand this. Uman (Sala) and Yejin (Manda) spent a day watchin...

Deep in the Yorkshire woods, multi-disciplinary artist and producer Jamie House – aka Hamie Jouse – has been quietly splitting light into a thousand tiny rainbows. Best known for his hypnotic visual installations and art direction across DIY music spaces from Old Red Bus Station to Resonance, House found himself at last year’s Watching Trees festival doing something beautifully meta: filming dayti...

Deep in the woods at our very own Bush of Ghosts stage at Watching Trees 25, Scottish producer Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, brought his ‘Plants Can Dance’ project to life in a five-hour ambient set beneath a canopy of trees. Drawing from the playlists he’s been curating for Imperial College’s psychedelic therapy trials, d’Souza transformed the clearing into what he describes as “a sanctuary away...

For Glasgow-based artist Susannah Stark, the walk from the city to Carbeth becomes a meditation on paying attention, on taking your time with things, on letting roots guide the way. In Stark’s work, sensitivity isn’t fragility; it’s a form of attentiveness, a willingness to be present with the human voice, with the spaces between sounds, with what emerges when you slow down enough to notice. Her a...

Seeds Mix #6: Angie QQ – A Meditation Through Taroko (Taiwan) Angela Lin, aka Angie QQ, producer and A&R behind the Sounds of Taiwan compilation, returned to Taiwan in May 2019 seeking refuge after the loss of her mother. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.musictowatchseedsgrowby.com

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants when he’s working on music… so that’s handy for us, isn’t it?! We’re assuming he’s talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup – a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields – is something we’d be well on board with too. Enough of the plant talk for a second and...

Joe Muggs has lived and breathed ‘electronic music culture’ for many, many years… like a lot of us probably for more than he’d care to imagine. From journalist and observer to active participant and curator, beyond his celebrated writing career spanning publications like The Wire, FACT, The Guardian, and his co-authorship of Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture . Muggs has buil...

His recent release on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By is an ode to the Blue Flax. ‘Blue Flax ’ is the resilient flowering plant celebrated for its delicate blue blooms and medicinal applications; it is native to the Pacific Northwest – the region Cooke calls home. This plant has long grown on the ancestral lands of the Wasco, Klickitat, Warm Springs, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes. Recorded during the t...

Teesside-based DJ, producer, vocalist, nature enthusiast and all-round legend Sally Rodgers, blesses us with the latest Seeds Mix. As one half of the iconic duo A Man Called Adam, Sally has long cultivated a unique space in the world of the electronic – keep your ears peeled for their forthcoming EP release this spring – but it’s her passion for the natural world that brings us this specially cura...

Organic exploration with our first Music To Watch Seeds Grow By signings… Some musical journeys begin with a whisper, a gentle rustling of leaves, and a breath of sound. For brothers Clive and Mark, aka the legendary Woo, this journey has been unfolding since the 1970s through a four-decad long sonic odyssey of discovery… Their latest output on our very own Music To Watch Seeds Grow By imprint is...