DISCOGRAPHY
Albums
2024
Cloudchord's Colorful Surf Crusade
On May 29, 2024, Cloudchord was mysteriously sent back 60 years in a time, to a music studio in 1964.
He found a cryptic letter that read “Rock songs from the future are the key, make them surf to set you free."
These 17 vintage recordings were the keys to unlocking a doorway that would allow him to return to 2024. We are finally able to share the songs from his Crusade.
Art Credit: Brandom Trammel
2023
Bloom Bap
With Bloom Bap, Cloudchord has put forth his greatest and most impossibly lush collection of tunes to date. We see him crystallizing his characteristic style with rolling grooves and dense thickets of melody, cementing Cloudchord as an exciting voice in the soundful electronic landscape.
Featuring collaborations with Emancipator, Big Gigantic, Braxton Cook, ProbCause, Adam Deitch of Lettuce, and more, Bloom Bap projects tranquility but never quite sits still, always excitedly shifting its own structure as these 14 songs wind down fascinating paths—and you, the listener, are always along for the ride.
Art Credit: Trina Richie Hines
Art Credit: JIm Spendlove
2021
Koi Pond vol. 2
w/Soul Food Horns
The sequel has finally arrived! Available everywhere digitally, and on limited edition vinyl!
11 new feel good chillhop style songs with Cloudchord and Soul Food Horns. Special guests include Saib, Yapser, G Mills, Lapa and Youngteam.
Key Tracks: Low Key, Bootin'
2020
Reverence
Reverence is Cloudchord’s new record of acoustic beats, out May 15, 2020. The record’s intention is to reset & cleanse the palette of Cloudchord’s fans as he pairs his breezy steel string guitars & ukuleles alongside a diverse set of collaborators. Reverence naturally adopts an easy, meditative tone as fans of lo-fi, instrumentals, funk & jazz take a pleasant journey through each track.
Key Tracks: Pleasant Dreams, A Hui Hou
Art Credit: Trina Richie Hines
2019
Attunement
Self-released Attunement is filled with warm guitars, strings, brass, reeds, woodwinds, voices & hazy beats…. All ready to help you center.
Key tracks: Bonjour, Octave Memory
Art Credit: Dylan Wood / Dark Matter
2018
Koi Pond
w/Soul Food Horns
Koi Pond is the first full-length collaboration produced by Cloudchord & Soul Food Horns. Released by Chillhop Music, Koi Pond gives you the perfect soulful soundtrack for midsummer.
Key Tracks: Too Young For Secrets, Morning Crackle
Art Credit: Dylan Wood / Dark Matter
2017
Imprint
Imprint, Cloudchord's debut album, released via Gravitas Recordings, invokes the sound when Spring hits a little harder.
Key Tracks: Birdbath & Beyond, Aviator
Art Credit: Grim
EPs
Art Credit: Fransisco Silva
2024
Nature's Voice
w/Jeff Pierre
Nature’s Voice is a five-song EP of poolside joy filled with tropical warmth, electric positivity, and hypnotizing music.
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From Derek: "One day, this guy saw a guitar video of mine. He hit me up...."can you send me that guitar lick?" A few weeks later he came back with a fully completed song. It blew me away. Thus began the journey of Nature's Voice. It's one of the most special and sacred things I've ever made."
Art Credit: Brandon trammel
2024
Daybreak
Daybreak is a six-song Spaghetti Western fever dream, fueled by tumbleweed and mescal An EP largely guided by Cloudchord's lap steel guitar, resulting in an epic sand dune saga, a vision quest journey. As fellow producer Brock Berrigan proclaimed, this "sounds like the desert in audio form"
2022
Tulips
w/ Ian Ewing
The Tulips EP is the sound of “optimistic chillhop” in the spring.
Art Credit: Trina Richie Hines
2021
Citrus Fever Dream
w/ Emancipator
'Citrus Fever Dream' is a true synergy between the Layering and Vibration Mastery of Emancipator, and the neo-soul/ chillhop instrumentalism of Cloudchord. The duo ended up getting psychedelic in Oregon one weekend, and Citrus fever Dream embodies those experiences they had.
2021
Birds
w/ Oatmello
The follow-up ep to Diamonds contains four new mellow bops. This new series features much of Cloudchord's acoustic guitar playing.
Art Credit: Trina Richie Hines
2021
CloudCovers
What happens when you take a quintessential pop song, and pass it through a guitar and a filter of pure neosoul? you get "Cloudcovers."
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Cover songs are somewhat overdone. So here's the twist: every single sound was made from electric guitars in his collection, a testament to Cloud's skill and spiritual love for the instrument. From the kick drum and snare sounds, to sound design and melodies, it all comes from a guitar!
Art Credit: ProbCause
2020
Moonflower
w/ProbCause
From Cloudchord: As instrumental act, I seldom work w/ vocalists and rappers, but Covid life 2020 serendipitously gave me an unexpected joie de vivre for the vibration of these songs. “The problem with the world is people’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” That line was my True North for this body of music, and the message that inspired me to see this project through. So much so, that in edition to the 4 song digital ep, we have a 10 song deluxe vinyl and hoodie!
Art Credit: Julien Mier
2020
Crossing Borders
w/Headphone Activist
Cloudchord and Headphones Activist collaborate on 4 slow moving, vacation like songs. Crossing Borders is music born out of, and inspired by the Great Pause.
2020
Taken By The Sky
Sometimes music fans want to hear an artist swinging for the fences. While Cloudchord tends to embody the lofi chillhop side of things, “TBTS” serves as a joyful, 4 song energetic detour.
2019
Holiday Tape 2.0
Year 2 of the Cloudchord Holiday Tapes. Features a mix of classics & originals, all infused with Cloudchord’s signature guitars, vocals feat. ProbCause & Chantel Mead, & Soul Food Horns.
Art Credit: ProbCause
2019
One Flight Up
w/G Mills
One Flight Up is a low-key banger, study in beats, collab EP. Cloudchord's Neo soul fingerstyle guitar meets G Mills' lively boom bap beats.
Art Credit: Trina Richie Hines
2019
Moon Fortune
w/Soul Food Horns
In this 4 song collaboration w/ Soul Food Horns, Cloudchord brings feel-good, lo-fi house to center stage.
2019
Sun Naps
w/Goosetaf
4 songs of neo soul boom bap with my favorite beat maker from Seattle, Goosetaf.
2019
Sugar Weather
w/Hm Surf
4 Songs for late spring. Hm Surf is one of my favorite unique producers, so this was a joy to make!
2019
Refresh
4 songs for unhurried introspection & meditation.
2018
Diamonds
w/Oatmellow
5 chill bumps with Oatmello. Raw & off the cuff, Diamonds was made in just a few weeks over the internet.
Art Credit: K Buckland Photo
Singles
2016-Present
Cloudchord Singles
Since my singles, remixes and features are so vast, I decided to just make a curated playlist of all Cloudchord songs & collabs.
This playlist includes Chillhop Essentials singles, features for Emancipator, remixes for Clozee & Big Gigantic, and many more singles with friends and musicians I admire.