Q · 01
When is the next release?
Each Vine Noir record arrives only when the atmosphere is ready. Release dates are announced first through the Journal and the Letters — never rushed, never forced.
VINE NOIR
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A Deeper Reading
The StoryBehind the Music.
Where the records come from. Who is writing them. And the quiet world they are written inside of.
IArtist Story
Born in Manhattan. Carried by the islands.
Lexgotti was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City.
The streets taught the rhythm. The trains taught the patience. The avenues taught the silence between the notes.
The family roots stretch back to the Dominican Republic — a quiet inheritance of warmth, rhythm, and memory that lives inside every record on this label.
One city. Two homelands. A single, cinematic sound.
IIFrequently Asked
Questions from the listeners.
Q · 02
Where are you from?
Lexgotti was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City. The family roots reach back to the Dominican Republic — a quiet inheritance of warmth, rhythm, and storytelling woven into every record.
Q · 03
What inspires the music?
Late nights. Rain on glass. Subway platforms. Old hotels. Love remembered. The cinematic silence of a city that never fully sleeps.
Q · 04
What is Vine Noir Records?
An independent music world built around cinematic jazz, noir emotion, and preserved memory. Not a label in the traditional sense — a living archive of moments pressed into sound.
IIIField Journal
Release notes. Quiet reflections.
Behind every record there is a notebook. These are the pages that travel with the music.
Field Entry · No. 01
On the first take
The first take is rarely the best — but it is always the most honest.
Before the mind interferes, the room speaks. The microphone listens.
Most of what survives the final mix was decided in those first three minutes.
— Lexgotti
Field Entry · No. 02
Track-by-track — Moon Exit
Track 01 began as a walk down Lexington at 2 a.m.
Track 03 was written entirely on the C train.
Track 07 is for someone I will not name. They already know.
— Lexgotti
Field Entry · No. 03
Behind the silence
The pauses are not empty. They are where the listener is allowed to remember.
We mix the silence as carefully as the saxophone.
— Lexgotti
IVAbout Vine Noir
An independentmusic world.
Vine Noir Records is an independent label founded by Lexgotti.
Built around cinematic jazz, noir emotion, love, memory, late nights, and the slow atmosphere of New York City.
Every release is treated as an artifact. Every track is a room you can step inside of. Every record is preserved with the care of a museum and the warmth of a handwritten letter.
We don't release songs. We preserve moments.
Stories pressed into sound.