Kitchen. Label

KITCHEN. LABEL is a Singapore and Tokyo-based record label founded in 2008. Despite its domestic-sounding name and penchant for delicate gestures and empty, impassive interiors, KITCHEN. LABEL (named after Banana Yoshimoto’s novel “Kitchen”) is a thoroughly metropolitan phenomenon. A bit like the roving eye of the flâneur in Baudelaire, who found solace in the bittersweet juxtapositions of urban life, KITCHEN. LABEL documents momentary flickers of melancholic beauty in unlikely environments. A wilful but passionate delusion of a sort, perhaps: one that tries to transmute city dross into pastoral romance, softly dissolving into the dwindling light of a late summer evening.