Independent studio

Fat Tuna

Stories worth finding.

A quiet independent studio active since 2009.
Some projects pass through it.
Most leave only fragments behind.

Fragments in circulation

No full explanation. Only names, traces, and enough detail to suggest something larger exists behind them.

Worlds behind the names

CALDRIN

Arena rock built on memory, grief and the weight of things that cannot be undone.

Releases
Beyond the Ghost [Reckoning] Unclaimed Iron Veins We Should Have Known Still Here Cold Leather Seat [from the Ashes of Stormbanner]
Future releases
What We Were Given What We Were Given [Gospel Edit] What We Were Given [Ritual Edit] The Light Stayed On

KIORA

Night movement. Neon cities. Moments that feel infinite until morning arrives.

Releases
Between the Night and Dawn [Extended Chorus Mix] Shibuya Shinjuku

LOST RYDER

Roads, youth and the sound of engines long after midnight.

Releases
Cheap Hotels and Gasoline Whiskey, Dust & Steel Strings

STORMBANNER

A British heavy band believed to have circulated briefly around 1985. Almost no reliable documentation survives.

Releases

No confirmed recordings have been publicly documented. Only fragments are referenced in scattered archives.

ISAK

A quieter presence in the archive. Less documented, but part of the same constellation.

Releases
Du valde mig

Fragments, not chronology

1985 Possible reference to “Stormbanner” in a small UK gig listing.
2009 Fat Tuna established.
2025 The Fat Tuna studio structure formally established.
2026 The singer CALDRIN released a track titled Cold Leather Seat [from the Ashes of Stormbanner].
The meaning of the bracketed reference remains unclear.
Some listeners speculate the title may refer to a lost recording attributed to a little-documented mid-1980s band known as Stormbanner.
No verified source recording has been identified. The reference remains unresolved.

Signals between projects

Cross-project Kamen - Torii [feat. KIORA]

Quietly reachable