ISAAC SHERMAN
Available July 2025
LP • Cassette • Digital
[ Limited Edition Pastel Pink 12” Vinyl LP ]
[ Pastoral Pink Cassette ]
A Pasture, Its Limits marks the debut album from Los Angeles-based composer Isaac Sherman. Drawing on a hybrid palette of synthesizers, woodwind-like samples, electric guitar, watery field recordings, and processed vocals, Sherman constructs swirling collages of sound—at once tactile and ephemeral—where pop fragments are suspended like snapshots between granular textures and recursive loops.
Themes of weather, longing, and personal transformation saturate fragmented falsettos and repetitive grooves, evoking the diaristic intimacy of Arthur Russell and short poetic verses of Laurie Anderson. Elsewhere, instrumental moments evolve with a slow meditative repetition echoing the reflective minimalism of Terry Riley, Laurie Spiegel, Maman Sani and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
A Pasture, Its Limits is both a record of time and place. Spanning several years and two cities, it gathers material first sketched in Milwaukee and later reworked following Sherman’s move to Los Angeles. Across its duration, the album holds traces of a temporal shift—layered, stretched, and reassembled into an affective document shaped by distance, memory, and unfolding.
Themes of weather, longing, and personal transformation saturate fragmented falsettos and repetitive grooves, evoking the diaristic intimacy of Arthur Russell and short poetic verses of Laurie Anderson. Elsewhere, instrumental moments evolve with a slow meditative repetition echoing the reflective minimalism of Terry Riley, Laurie Spiegel, Maman Sani and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
A Pasture, Its Limits is both a record of time and place. Spanning several years and two cities, it gathers material first sketched in Milwaukee and later reworked following Sherman’s move to Los Angeles. Across its duration, the album holds traces of a temporal shift—layered, stretched, and reassembled into an affective document shaped by distance, memory, and unfolding.
Isaac Sherman is a musician, composer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA.
Engaging with an array of analog and digital synthesizers, samplers, guitars and vocals, his music blends elements of experimental pop, kosmische, minimalism, ambient music and experimental jazz. His live shows offer a range of musical presentations, from structured compositions to free-flowing improvisations.
He has performed at venues around Los Angeles such as Zebulon, 2220 Arts + Archives, Gold Diggers, Permanent Records, Healing Force Records - joining bills with musicians such as Dustin Wong, Julius Smack, Nicole McCabe, Gregory Uhlmann, and more. He will be releasing his debut full-length LP, “A Pasture, Its Limits”, in July of 2025.
Engaging with an array of analog and digital synthesizers, samplers, guitars and vocals, his music blends elements of experimental pop, kosmische, minimalism, ambient music and experimental jazz. His live shows offer a range of musical presentations, from structured compositions to free-flowing improvisations.
He has performed at venues around Los Angeles such as Zebulon, 2220 Arts + Archives, Gold Diggers, Permanent Records, Healing Force Records - joining bills with musicians such as Dustin Wong, Julius Smack, Nicole McCabe, Gregory Uhlmann, and more. He will be releasing his debut full-length LP, “A Pasture, Its Limits”, in July of 2025.
isaacsherman.org
isaacalpertsherman@gmail.com
[ Vinyl Back + Credits ]
[ “Ocean Park” Music Video ]
Tracklist
1. Puddle of Light on a Wall
2. Upon Acre
3. Metonym
4. Ocean Park
5. Good Hug
6. Unfold
7. Sweet Potato
8. Tickle the Roots
9. A Pasture, Its Limits
10. Gifter
11. Streams
1. Puddle of Light on a Wall
2. Upon Acre
3. Metonym
4. Ocean Park
5. Good Hug
6. Unfold
7. Sweet Potato
8. Tickle the Roots
9. A Pasture, Its Limits
10. Gifter
11. Streams
Written & recorded by Isaac Sherman in Los Angeles, CA
Mixed by Spencer Hartling at Wiggle World in Altadena, CA
Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering in Portland, OR
Artwork by Sara Drake and Isaac Sherman
[ “Sweet Potato” Live Jan 2025 ]
[ Black 12” Vinyl ]
[ “A Pasture, Its Limits” Live Feb 2024 ]
[ Improvisation Jan 2025 ]
isaacsherman.org
isaacalpertsherman@gmail.com