African-American Sound Recordings

African-American Sound Recordings is a side-project created by Wilbert Gavin Mays, most well known for his rapper alias, Cities Aviv. African-American Sound Recordings creates atmospheric ambient music, using sampling as his main form of music creation alongside live instruments and audio recording, going between both styles of the serene and the industrial. The ambient style would Appear in his Cities Aviv album, Cafe Tom Tom, introducing the style alongside keeping the originality that Cities Aviv has.

Studio albums

• 2019 – AND EYE (Seen What I Saw)
• 2020 – Outreach Ministries
• 2020 – day of completion forever
• 2021 – Erasure Poetry
• 2022 – Tamika's Lodge
• 2023 – free flower
• 2023 – The Private World of Correspondence
• 2023 – Share Spirit
• 2025 – Be Somwhere Twice
• 2025 – Hits of Ash
• 2025 – Runaway Cremations
• 2026 – Black Fatigues

Physical Albums

• 2025 – Vergessene Musik für Europa
• 2026 – The Original

Singles

• 2020 – Runaway Train
• 2020 – Divine Comedy
• 2021 – Hear the world’s sounds
• 2023 – On My Street
• 2025 – dach imports

Mixes

• 2018 – I TOOK IT WITH ME
• 2020 – Nearing a Distant Dialogue
• 2021 – ESSENTIAL SMOKE
• 2023 – Newtown Radio 5.29.23
• 2023 – Kiosk Radio 06.10.2023
• 2023 – Montez Press Radio 07.24.2023
• 2023 – OB0436
• 2024 – Drift Radio 18-07-24
• 2025 – Lost Music Festival
• 2026 – An Evening of Difficult Music

EPs

• 2025 – private territories

Album Collaborations

Notes

• "day of completion forever" was released exclusively on Bandcamp.
• "OB0436" was released exclusively through an SoundCloud artist, odyxxey.
• "Vergessene Musik für Europa" was released exclusively on physical CD copies only during his EU performances.
• "The Original" was released exclusively on physical CD copies only during his performance in Roulette, Downtown Brooklyn.
• "Hear the world's sounds" was released on his SoundCloud, then later deleted/archived.
• "Runaway Train" is stylized to all caps on the Bandcamp version.
• "Newton Radio" was a mini-set played exclusively through the SoundCloud radio station, "Strangers: LIVE!" to promote his album "free flower." It has since been taken down.
• "Kiosk Radio 6.10.2023" was released exclusively through a SoundCloud radio station, Kiosk Radio. Kiosk Radio also uploaded a video of him performing it live on their YouTube.
• "Montez Press Radio 07.24.2023" was a live performance with him whilst also featuring artists Slipper and Callahan & Witscher, live from Montez Press Radio.
• "Drift Radio 18-07-2024" was released exclusively on the SoundCloud radio station, Radio.
• "Lost Music Festival" was released exclusively on the Lost Music Festival SoundCloud and the URSSS website.
• "An Evening of Difficult Music" is a mix by May's record label, Total Works. Features African-American Sound Recordings.
• "private territories" was released on SoundCloud, then abruptly deleted/archived after.